Original scientific paper

Folk Beliefs In The Area Between Svilaja And Moseć Mountains

Dinka Alaupović-Gjeldum orcid.org/0000-0002-9327-8962 ; Karamanova 3, 21000 Split

Abstract

The text depicts some folk beliefs intertwined with the traditional forms of magic practice, which were recorded in field researches in the area between Svilaja and Moseć mountains in 2014 and earlier years. The data were collected by the author through direct conversations with older Catholic people, most of them female. The presented folk beliefs are related to the life cycle (birth, marriage, death), and some supernatural beings (mare, witch, werewolf, fairy), darkness and the use of spells.

Keywords

beliefs; rituals; folk piety

Hrčak ID:

185669

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/185669

Publication date:

8.8.2017.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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