Description

• Title:
  An Ancient Bulgarian Ritual and the Magic Power of Words
• Creator:
  Китанова, Мария
• Description:
  The ritual „Gramada” is a typical tradition of the  Bulgarian ethnic territories that appeared between the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. It represents a symbolic way of „escorting” (a sort of symbolic funeral) of a dead man, who committed an act unacceptable for the community, upon the world of the dead. The „Gramada” ceremony is observed as piling up some stones on a sacral place so  they can form (create) a barrier between the  sinner  and  the  righteous.  During  the ritual,  symbolic  words  and  acts are  performed  as a verbal and nonverbal act of magic. It reveals thebelief of the traditional Bulgarian people in the magical power of words.;
  The ritual „Gramada” is a typical tradition of the  Bulgarian ethnic territories that appeared between the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. It represents a symbolic way of „escorting” (a sort of symbolic funeral) of a dead man, who committed an act unacceptable for the community, upon the world of the dead. The „Gramada” ceremony is observed as piling up some stones on a sacral place so  they can form (create) a barrier between the  sinner  and  the  righteous.  During  the ritual,  symbolic  words  and  acts are  performed  as a verbal and nonverbal act of magic. It reveals thebelief of the traditional Bulgarian people in the magical power of words. 
• Object availability:
  free access
• Date:
  2012.01.01
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion;
  Artykuł naukowy
• Language:
  Polish;
  pol
• Source:
  Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne; No. 3 (2012): Zaklęcie, zamówienie, zażegnanie. Magiczna moc słów w folklorze słowiańskim; 89–96;
  Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne; Nr 3 (2012): Zaklęcie, zamówienie, zażegnanie. Magiczna moc słów w folklorze słowiańskim; 89–96;
  2450-2731;
  2084-3011
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
• Relation: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/pss/article/view/1224/1136
• Subject:
  ritual;
  familiar;
  alien;
  symbolic;
  funeral;
  sinner;
  righteous;
  belief;
  words;
  magic
• Identifier: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/pss/article/view/1224
• Data provider:
  Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM
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• Type:
  other