Mărturii ale credinţelor şi vieţii religioase în lumea rurală din sud-estul european
Evidence of the Religious Beliefs and Life in the South-East European Rural Area

Summary/Abstract: Besides the presentation of the native language characteristics of the Slavic manuscript Miscelaneul de la Praga (of XIV-XVth century, Hodoş-Bodrog Monastery) that could be established, with more or less approximation, the period and the origin of the writer or the linguistic area where the work was copied, this manuscript could be analyzed from its content point of view, as well. In this case, we would have an interdisciplinary approach of lecebnic, and the information about the folk medicine that we can find there could make a background for a presentation of the folk believes about illness and their remedies in the Medieval Age. That would be one of the common elements and the starting point for a comparative estimation of the folk medicine fragments of Miscelaneul de la Praga (The Slavonic Book of Prague) and Sbornicul medical de la Variaş (The Medical Book of Variaş, XVII-XIXth century ). Much more than that, in both of them we can find magic and symbolic formula and practices of driving away the illness that have a direct relation with the magic medicine. So far, all these facts could be relevant for the magic thought and vision of the south-east European folk culture and tradition.

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