FISHING CUSTOMS OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE WINTER COAST OF THE WHITE SEA. BASED ON ARCHIVAL MATERIALS OF THE 1930S AND EXPEDITION RECORDS 2007-2019

Abstract

The article is devoted to Pomor’s magical practices, omens, prohibitions and regulations related to fishing and hunting. They are considered in diachrony, records of ethnographers and folklorists of the 1930s are compared with the field materials of the expeditions of the Pushkin House in 2007–2019. The supplement contains a large publication of materials from the archive of R.S. Lipets. She was one of the first to study the fishing and hunting folklore of the Pomors. In Soviet folklore studies, omens were studied as a text, isolated from the rite, which was considered outside of religion. Publishing them in the way they were deposited in the archive, combining the appeal to the saints in a dangerous situation and the use of magical practices, allows us to better represent the tradition as a whole, without considering separately Christian and non-Christian ideas. Among the trends that can be traced in modern records, compared with the records of the 1930s and 40s, which we can talk about on the basis of interviews, is a fine line between faith, compliance with certain prescriptions and evaluating them as fun.