Обредът на втория ден на кръщението (похрестини) в Украйна на фона на чуждоетнически паралели
The Rite Performed on the Second Day after Christening in Ukraine in a Comparative Perspective

Summary/Abstract: The article analyzes the post-baptizing ceremony (the continuation of the baptizing dinner on the second day) as the first of the overall regular phase in the midwife status symbolic marking as “the person who knows”, connected with the always secret sphere of childbirth. The difficult interlacing of the post-baptizing ceremony ritual actions (common meal, where a midwife performs the central role, her raising/gloryfying elements of redressing/murmuring of both the midwife and guests; sending off the midwife – collective movement, united with symbolic acts of ‘’exile’’/bringing out/carring out of the midwife with her further transfer outside of a woman in childbirth home borders/a village (to a pub, water), bathing/dousing with water/turning over/throwing of the midwife into the river (puddle), were remnants of old mythological notions and had universal character. They have also other ethnic parallels in the calendar ceremony of the Bulgars.

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