Based on fieldwork research among the Bosniak (Muslim) population in rural areas of Bosnia and Herzegovina, this article starts with the technique of summoning the dead, aimed at obtaining ...information about missing goods. It argues that the practice of summoning the dead, like practices aimed at magically harming others, is based on the same moral rules that govern everyday relations between the living and the dead. While these rules are generally followed and observed in everyday life, they can also be deliberately inverted to one’s own advantage or to the disadvantage of others. Ultimately, I argue that the dead prove to be moral agents who act when moral norms are violated.
Članek obravnava meme o virusu COVID-19, ki so bili deljeni na Facebook skupini Belief Narrative Network’s od njenega začetka aprila 2020 do konca avgusta 2020 (ko je bil ta članek napisan), torej ...med prvim valom pandemije. Avtorica obravnava glavne skrbi članov skupine, ki se odražajo v temah, ki jih memi obravnavajo, in vloge, ki so jih imeli ti v njihovem življenju.
This paper challenges a generally accepted view that witchcraft is always a matter of discourse, and the witch a fictitious person who is ascribed bewitchment but, in fact, performed none. It ...discusses the hints that point to bewitchments being, at least occasionally, a matter of practice and reality, and a “witch” indeed a practitioner of acts, perceived as harmful. It also challenges the etic difference between the “natural” and “supernatural” acts in the context of witchcraft accusations and argues that there is no clear difference between the former and the latter for people thinking within a witchcraft discourse.
In the paper the authoress examines the legends about the Master of the wolves in Slavic and other Europen folklore. She first shows interpretatio christiana of the Master of the wolves and then ...tries to unveil also pre-christian layers and the mythological background of the tradition connected with this mythical being.
In the paper the authoress compares her research results about the mythical being Wolf Herdsman (Master of the Wolves) with the latest research in Slavic mythology - the research of the Slavic ...fertility cult, done by R. Katičić and V. Belaj.
The article is based on fieldwork material on witchcraft that was collected in a rural part of western Slovenia between 2000 and 2002. The author tried to emphasize the complexity of withcraft as ...well as the fact that there are different categories of »witches« in this area. Emphasized is the need to consider all aspects of witchcraft. Equally necessary is that a researcher of this phenomenon be able to recognize numerous differences and nuances and that he or she considers the dynamics of their overlapping. The second part of the article focuses on posible disturbances in communication and on false interpretations that may be the result of ignoring different aspects and types of witchcraft and witches.
The article discusses the supernatural powers which - according to the beliefs of numerous peoples - certain shepherds possess. For this reason people made distinctions between those shepherds who ...possessed this knowledge and those who did not. According to the author, shepherds’ knowledge of magic referred primarily to their power over wild animals, particularly over wolves.
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