Elemente de rit agrar în descântecele româneşti
Elements of Agrarian Rite in the Romanian Charms

Summary/Abstract: The paper starts from the identification of agricultural motifs in certain Romanian charms. Through the comparative study of magical texts with agrarian ones (holiday season poetry, harvest songs) we achieve the recovery of archaic imaginary typical for these folkloric species reflected in the survival of animistic beliefs. The two types of texts indicate integration into therapeutic magic, by the tendency of peasant agricultural works for removing potential negative influences generated by the terrifying aspect of the sacred.

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