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PREZENłA GRÂULUI ÎN ACTELE DE MAGIE SI MEDICINA EMPIRICĂ
The Wheat in the Magical Acts and Empirical Medicine

Author(s): Laura Troșan
Subject(s): Anthropology, Social Sciences, Communication studies
Published by: MUZEUL ETNOGRAFIC AL TRANSILVANIEI
Keywords: empirical medicine; magic practices; incantations; wheat; flour; bread;

Summary/Abstract: Acts of magic,ritual songs, knowledge of traditional medicine hardly find their place in the village nowadays. These changes are the result of mutations that have taken place in traditional society. The wheat is present in all its forms in the empirical medicine:grains, flour-bran, bread-knot, shape bread.

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 8
  • Page Range: 210-218
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Romanian