Pasičnićki zamovlannja u svitohladnij tradyciji ukrajinciv: mahična vlada slova
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2012
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Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM
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Bee-keepers’ Spell in Ukrainians’ World-View Practice: the Magical Power of a Word
Abstract
The article is exposing some results of the study in bee-keepers’ spell as a featuring trait of
Ukrainians’ world-view practice; the present research is the first work of such a kind in the
home ethnology. The spell belongs to that sort of ritual text that might be characterized by
a vivid and most active speech with its fully evident magical strength. Spell as a genre of
folklore refers to peculiar items owing to its archaic nature as well as to utilitarian functionalism,
especially verbal destination, unity of sacral and profane articulation. The world-view
ground of spell has been always heterogeneous as that originated and developed through the
ages with fixing so prime of human world-consciousness as historically later (Christian)
epistemological and axiological picture of the reality. In the paper the bee-keepers’ spell has
been considered because of its religious and magical contents that has quite significant
spread so in everyday bee-keeping practice (occasional aspect), as in the contents of yearly
religious festivals (the calendar one). The aim of bee-keepers’ spell has been getting
a concrete practical result, i.e. successful functioning of apiary.
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spell, bee-keeping, folklore text, world-view, word, action, thinking, utilitarian, Ukrainians
Citation
Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne, 2012, nr 3, s.113–127
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978-83-232-2473-0