SLFK 214 - RITUAL AND DEMONOLOGY -REVIEW
Concepts to know for the midterm exam:
Material folklore
Social folklore
Verbal folklore
Stove (pich’ (Ukr) or pech’ (Rus))
Icon corner
Rushnyky
Clean vs. unclean
Domovoi
Dvorovoi
Bannik
Ovinnik
Vodianoi
Polevoi
Leshii
Rusalka
I-thou relationship
Spoiling
Baba vs. Ved’ma
Bathhouse
Dual faith (dvoeverie)
Devil
Lower/higher mythology
“born/natural” sorcerers vs. “learned”
Charm
Klikushestvo
Evil eye
Night terror
Life cycle ritual
Calendary (yearly cycle) ritual
Sts Nicholas and George
Elijah the Prophet
Perun
Paraskeva
Cassian
Earth goddess cult
Mother Russia
Threshold
Baba Iaga
Egg Ceremony
Icon
Old Believers
Red/Glorious Death (Krasnaia Smert’)
Outsiders
Ritual sacrifice
Dukhov Den’ (Day of the Spirits)
Normative Communitas
Ideological Communitas
Existential Communitas
Liminality (Liminar, Limen, Liminal)
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