STORIES ABOUT SCARY FORTUNE-TELLING IN THE CONTEXT OF CHRISTMAS CEREMONIALISM OF RESIDENTS OF THE VILLAGE OF LOYMA Cover Image

РАССКАЗЫ О «СТРАШНЫХ» ГАДАНИЯХ В КОНТЕКСТЕ СВЯТОЧНОЙ ОБРЯДНОСТИ ЖИТЕЛЕЙ С. ЛОЙМА
STORIES ABOUT SCARY FORTUNE-TELLING IN THE CONTEXT OF CHRISTMAS CEREMONIALISM OF RESIDENTS OF THE VILLAGE OF LOYMA

Author(s): Swietłan Nizowcewa
Subject(s): Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics
Published by: Polskie Towarzystwo Rusycytyczne
Keywords: fortune-telling

Summary/Abstract: In article there are presented stories about Christmas fortune-telling of residents of the Russian village of Loyma of the Priluzsky district of the Komi Republic. To a research are attracted materials of expeditions of the beginning of the 21st century. The big percent from all corpus of texts consists the stories about so-called “scary” fortune-telling during which contacts with evil spirit was possible. In the context of telling there are fixed verbal spells for the beginning and the end of fortune-tellings which command can be considered as the integral condition of the correct ritual conduction.

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: 165
  • Page Range: 60-69
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Russian