{"title":"MISCELLANIES OF OLD BELIEVERS AND ORTHODOX SPIRITUAL VERSES IN 20TH – 21ST CENTURIES: FROM A GIFT TEXT TO A COPY TEXT","authors":"I. Melnikov","doi":"10.28995/2658-5294-2022-5-2-73-85","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.28995/2658-5294-2022-5-2-73-85","url":null,"abstract":"The article is devoted to the tradition of giving spiritual verses as a gift, which arose among Old Believers and representatives of the Orthodox Church parish circle in the first half of the 20th century influenced by the genre of. The Old Believers’ miscellanies, called “Sticharniks”, kept in regional book collections or currently existing among believers, were used as the material. The place of the spiritual verse in the traditional process of donation is demonstrated, as well as the function of preserving the individual memory of the donator, which in the Old Believers and the Orthodox Church parish environment performed the handwritten “Sticharniki”.","PeriodicalId":367091,"journal":{"name":"Folklore: structure, typology, semiotics","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116926166","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“THEY DIDN’T HAVE ANY PERMANENCY”: THE POMORS’ VIEW ON THE MEZEN NENETS (BASED ON THE FIELD-WORK MATERIALS, 2006–2018)","authors":"N. Komelina, A. Bildyug","doi":"10.28995/2658-5294-2021-4-4-40-90","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.28995/2658-5294-2021-4-4-40-90","url":null,"abstract":"This article is based on the field-work of the authors and their colleagues in the Mezen region of the Arkhangelsk Oblast and on the Kanin peninsula of the Nenets Autonomous Okrug, 2006–2018. Interviewing and discussion on Pomor-Nenets neighbourhood was not an original goal of the research, but the topic still arised frequently in the interviews with the informants, and, therefore, became an unobvious result of the Pomors’ telling about themselves. The article mainly describes the view of the Pomors on the Nenets. In spite of the rapid changes in the way of life of reindeer herders and Pomors in recent decades, the opposition between the tundra/village and the sedentary/nomadic lifestyles remains one of the most prominent in this region. The opposition contributes to the forming of stereotypical ideas about the “other”, which are still relevant. From the point of view of the Pomors, the affinity of the Nenets to nature endows them with special knowledge, used both for good and for harm. Folklore plots remain the same, they are repeated and become actual in the new conditions of closer ties between Russians and Nenets. The principle, unifying the Pomors and the Nenets, is the code of the tundra and the North – an unwritten set of norms of behaviour which binds people within the same ethnic group and neighbours of different ethnicities, living in the same landscape, as well","PeriodicalId":367091,"journal":{"name":"Folklore: structure, typology, semiotics","volume":"100 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131983416","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"FOLKLORE HERITAGE OF THE VILLAGE SEREGOVO IN THE COLLECTION OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE KOMI REPUBLIC","authors":"Yulia A. Krasheninnikova","doi":"10.28995/2658-5294-2019-2-180-199","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.28995/2658-5294-2019-2-180-199","url":null,"abstract":"The paper presents a collection of folklore and ethnographic transcripts of the Russians of Seregovo village (Knyazhpogostsky Region, Komi Republic), dating from 1935–1936. The village was founded in the end of the 16th century when salt-works was started by the river Vym, as migrants from various parts of Russia moved there. The data is dwelled upon according to genres, some features of poetics, functioning and everyday pragmatics of the texts are noted. Comparing these texts to those from North Russian local traditions shows some stylistic and functional congeniality between them. On the other hand, toponymics, nicknames and themes pointing to the salt mines and salt-works indicate local genesis of the presented texts, some of which are published. Archive texts are compared to field materials from 2014, recorded by the staff of the Folklore Section of the Institute of Linguistics, Literature and History. Certain samples exemplify that folklore and ethnographic materials dating from the 1930s may be implemented to detail local repertoire and to analyse the status and dynamics of local tradition from the end of the 19th century till the 1930s.","PeriodicalId":367091,"journal":{"name":"Folklore: structure, typology, semiotics","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129210198","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"MALICIOUS MAGIC WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF KUPALA RITES OF THE COUNTRYFOLK OF THE VITEBSK-PSKOV BORDERLANDS","authors":"Anastasia S. Tsygankova","doi":"10.28995/2658-5294-2021-4-4-91-111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.28995/2658-5294-2021-4-4-91-111","url":null,"abstract":"In contemporary East Slavic ethnology (ethnography, folklore, ethnolinguistics), the study of the folk calendar still occupies an important place. This article, based on field, archival and published ethnographic materials, analyses the phenomenon of harmful magic in the period of Ivan Kupala in the traditional culture of the countryfolk of the Vitebsk-Pskov borderlands. The functional pragmatics of witchcraft and its features are revealed, the techniques of apotropaic magic are analysed. The material for the work was a set of descriptions of the rite and folklore texts recorded on the territory of the borderlands in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. The analysis of folklore and field materials allows us to characterise the functional pragmatics of harmful magic, its gender specificity, as well as take into account the peculiarities of witchcraft in the conditions of modern developed communication. The purpose of the study is to identify the specifics of magical practices dedicated to the day of Ivan Kupala, in the area of the Belarusian-Russian (Vitebsk-Pskov) ethno-cultural border. The transboundary status of the region (borders on Russia, Lithuania and Latvia), makes the study of Kupala rituals seem to be even more relevant.","PeriodicalId":367091,"journal":{"name":"Folklore: structure, typology, semiotics","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127588945","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"LA MILAGROSA: VOTIVE PRACTICES AT COLON CEMETERY AND IN VIRTUAL SPACE","authors":"O. Khristoforova","doi":"10.28995/2658-5294-2022-5-1-69-103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.28995/2658-5294-2022-5-1-69-103","url":null,"abstract":"The paper examines the legends and votive practices that exist around one of the graves at the Colon cemetery in Havana, the capital of the Republic of Cuba. Amelia Goyri de Adot (nee Amelia Goyri de la Hoz) was buried in this cemetery in 1901. In 1909 on her grave a tombstone was erected, which became an object of religious veneration for both Cubans and visitors from other countries. Pilgrims perform a certain ritual near the monument and leave votive tablets with gratitude to Amelia, worshiped as a saint with the name of La Milagrosa. Nowadays, the legend that has developed around this burial is actively circulating on the Internet, transforming and acquiring new details. Virtual practices of worship are also appearing, markedly different from those performed in the cemetery.","PeriodicalId":367091,"journal":{"name":"Folklore: structure, typology, semiotics","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125887776","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"BOOK REVIEW: LORD, A.B. (2018), SKAZITEL’ [THE SINGER OF TALES], PUBLISHING HOUSE OF THE EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY AT SAINT PETERSBURG, SAINT PETERSBURG, RUSSIA, 550 Р.","authors":"Lyubov V. Yanchenko","doi":"10.28995/2658-5294-2020-3-4-150-154","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.28995/2658-5294-2020-3-4-150-154","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":367091,"journal":{"name":"Folklore: structure, typology, semiotics","volume":"447 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121694819","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"THE HAIRY MAIDEN: RUNAWAY AND DEITY","authors":"A. Starostina","doi":"10.28995/2658-5294-2020-3-1-27-55","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.28995/2658-5294-2020-3-1-27-55","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, the author offers a perspective on the evolution of the Hairy Maiden (Mao-nü) legends in written and oral Chinese tradition, from the twelfth century to the present day, on material of poems, short stories and records of the collectors of the Song – Qing eras, as well as memories of Hebei from the 1920s – 1940s and modern collections of fairy tales and legends. Attention is also paid to the pre-Song history of the character. The author suggested that it could be considered a borrowing. Field research data from 2014–2016 were used in the research. Mao-nü lives in wooded mountains, she is benevolent towards people. Stories about her can be divided into two distinctive groups. In the first group, she is a supernatural being for whom there is no return to human existence. In the second group, she returns to human existence, leaves the liminal zone and is doomed to die. W. Eberhard and Li Jianguo constructed the schemes close to the invariant of the Mao-nü plot. However, there are a few stories that do not correspond to those schemes as a whole, or their parts, in which the Hairy Maiden acts as a magical assistant. The paper describes the concept of Mao-nü as a deity and traces the connection of the Mao-nü stories to the Daoist hagiography (from “Lie xian zhuan” and on). The author also provides data on the perception of Mao-nü in the visual arts. The paper elaborates on the evidences that prove the direct descendance of the plot of the revolutionary opera “The White-Haired Girl” from ancient folklore. It describes further how the “revolutionary play” influenced the circulation of stories concerning the White-Haired fairy. An attempt is made to determine the ways in which the stories about the Hairy Maiden are connected to the stories about the “wild hairy people”, including the builders of the Great Wall. The author notes that for contemporary stories about Mao-nü, the proximity to written sources and links to the Huashan mountains are characteristic.","PeriodicalId":367091,"journal":{"name":"Folklore: structure, typology, semiotics","volume":"74 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121720690","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“THE HOUSE OF DONN” AND OTHERWORLD ISLANDS IN IRISH TRADITION","authors":"T. Mikhailova","doi":"10.28995/2658-5294-2022-5-3-12-33","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.28995/2658-5294-2022-5-3-12-33","url":null,"abstract":"In Irish Saga and Folklore Tradition there exist two types of tales telling us of magic islands housing the Other World (OW in the two meanings – OW as a world parallel to that existing on Earth and OW as a world after death). “Far-away islands” described in the focus of Christianized narrative are shown as a “promised land” which can be reached as a matter of chance or else through the supernatural help. The hero as a rule gets there while still alive and sometimes gets an opportunity to return. Islands of this type have no proper toponymical designations, instead they possess conventionally motivated names like The Land of Youth, The Land of Women, The Island of Apple-trees et al. Small islands (really existing off the Irish shores) are shown differently and presented as locoes of life after death. The article gives motivated reconstruction of the ways in which such tales come into being. 1. The correlation with Druids’ cult islands tradition (testified by archeology and classical data) as well as with neo-heathen practices of later periods. 2. The correlation with the tradition of leaving those accused of crimes on a small island as a kind of an execution. 3. The correlation with tales of vanishing islands (the projection of the region’s volcanic activity). Special attention is given to folklore tales of the so-called Donn’s House (Tech Duinn), an as it were existing island at the South-West of Ireland which is (1) described in the Middle Irish tradition as the burial site of Donn, one of Goidelic tribe’s ancestors killed in a battle for the island; (2) depicted in the folklore tradition as a kind of a “station” where the dead one’s soul, guided by his patron saint, has to expect the final direction for its last route. Separate attention is given to the tradition of contamination of Donn’s House and the magic hill which is at the same time the abode of Death as well as the home of Goddess Danu’s Tribe, and later of the fairies.","PeriodicalId":367091,"journal":{"name":"Folklore: structure, typology, semiotics","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125578268","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"WHO HUNTS WHOM? LEXICAL AND PLOT ANALYSIS OF THE AVENTURE 16 OF THE NIBELUNGENLIED","authors":"S. Zhilyuk","doi":"10.28995/2658-5294-2021-4-3-10-27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.28995/2658-5294-2021-4-3-10-27","url":null,"abstract":"The present article discusses the situation of a hunt in the aveture XVI of the Nibelungenlied and provides a lexical and semantic analysis of certain lexis related to the hunt. The aventure (chapter) 16 marks the border between two logical parts of the poem, the first of which ends with the murder of Sigfried (Sigird of the Norse Völsunga Saga). Burgundian royal court initiates the hunt in order to get an opportunity to murder Siegfried after the conflict between Kriemhild (Siegfried’s wife and Gunther’s sister) and Brunhild (Gunter’s wife). With the hunt being merely a pretence to bring Siegfried out of the city of Worms and leave him without his armour, the episode of the hunt does not provide many details on the of chasing the game. The armour and weapons draw more attention from the author. The murder in the forest is a mark of the German version of the tale, while the Norse one has him killed in a bedroom. However, the author of the forest episode followed an older text which had described Siegfried killing the dragon. It is possible to presume that the author have used this disappeared episode to create the hunting episode and Siegfried’s murder as it is depicted in the Nibelungenlied","PeriodicalId":367091,"journal":{"name":"Folklore: structure, typology, semiotics","volume":"164 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125613186","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}