Romanian sorcerers. Offensive magic
The study of verbal magical actions involving harmful effects on people and animals. Representation of sorcerers and otherworldly forces in Romanian ritual and musical-verbal folklore. Analysis of samples of ethnological findings related to harmful magic.
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| Язык | английский |
| Дата добавления | 06.11.2023 |
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The fate spells are performed as such: she catches a frog and sews its mouth with a red silk thread, keeps it locked in a pot, keeps charming it and pricks it with a knife until it dies and when the frog dies, the old ladies say that the lying-in or pregnant woman also dies. If this happens and her husband married again within forty days of her death, then it is said that the woman died from a fate spell and the second woman caused the death of the first onerest, 1995, P. 111 [in Romanian]..
Sending quicksilver. Although, par excellence, its initial function is that of doing evil, as it is the main element used in charms or spells by virtue of the same mentioned ambivalence, usually quicksilver is seen as an apo tropaion. In the case of charms, quicksilver is not a transportation means for the spell, but a symbolic expression of the unfavourable power of the charmer:
The witch charms the quicksilver and sends it to whoever she was commanded. The quicksilver leaves the witch's place on its own and, reaching the destination house, it spreads into wooden pails, in bowls, in sheets and all the things in the house. Sometimes those in the house see it, but cannot do anything to remove it. Of all the people in the house only the one destined by the witch falls sick. The sick person feels some sort of cramps throughout the entire body and is covered by prickly rashes, which exude a kind of liquid resembling water. He/she can only be cured by disenchantment? and smoke.
Manipulating of the footprint. The sacralized space is any space which has been in contact with a sacred bearer, with an object or a character defined through a great intensity of this specific force. This includes the footprint.
The spells, which could be cast with the help of the footprint, implied various levels of aggression on the victim. The inflicted damages did not entirely include the respective person, they could be limited only to the region of the legs:
If a woman envies another and wishes to harm her, she takes dust from her right footprint, with which she anoints the entrance of the oven, saying: “Her heels should burst the same as the hole of this 41 oven.
Very often the manipulation of the footprint implies the killing of the respective person. This also happens because the footprint, which was removed from the ground, represented such a fragile representation of the person, which especially through drying (excessive), can lose its consistency. If it was thrown into water, its destruction and that of the person to which it belonged was inevitable. The sorcerers can remove the footprint of the respective person from the ground and throw it into a tree; the illness will not go away until the tree dries and together with it the man “dries” (dies) too. When many elements are used, the spell is stronger; on the other hand, due to a smaller weight of the specific element (the footprint of the person attacked) the final point of the spell could not involve the death of the rival, but only a general lack of balance.
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