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The Concepts and Contextualization of Incantations in Nigerian Popular Music: Juju Music as Paradigm
Yoruba Studies Review, 2023 The Yoruba people like any other African tribe are enriched with magical and other traditional spiritual powers that are capable of invoking spirits and deities.
Kayode Olusola
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Loomade ja inimeste suhteid tähistavad loitsud – adresseerimine, eufemismid, düsfemismid [PDF]
Mäetagused, 2022 The use of euphemisms is a characteristic of everyday language use today. However, substitute names and euphemisms were widely used in incantations, where euphemisms were tightly interwoven with taboos.
Mare Kõiva
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Religions, 2023 Through an investigation of two recently discovered paper sheets of the Incantation of Wish-Fulfillment from the Silla kingdom, this paper reveals that early Korea had more diverse forms of dhāraṇī practices than previously assumed.
Joung Ho Han, Youn-mi Kim
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Polish-language Threads in Lithuanian Healing Conjurations (Zagovory)
Vilnius University Open Series, 2021 Lithuanian conjurations (zagovory) constitute a unique part of Lithuanian folklore. In the collection of conjurations’ manuscripts described in the publication of Daiva Vaitkevičienė (2008), we will find records of these archaic texts in various ...
Tatjana Vologdina
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Sõimuväljendid: saatmine olematusse [PDF]
Mäetagused, 2019 This study comparatively analyses swearing material in the Slovenian and Estonian languages in order to show the lexical and structural similarities/differences between swearing and incantations present in the material and to argue that swearing is not ...
Saša Babič, Piret Voolaid
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Phillips on the Grammar of Prayer: A Critical Approach [PDF]
پژوهشنامه فلسفه دین, 2020 Having a non-cognitivist approach to religious language, Phillips believes that in the grammar of prayer, the demonstration of a transcendent entity as its object is not of priority; The explanation of its meaningfulness within the religious form of life
Zeinab Shakibi
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Singing of incantations in Nordic tradition
Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 1990 Spoken recitation became established as the mode of delivering the Finnish incantation. The ordinary incantations connected with everyday life in agrarian society were recited with little ceremony, in a mumble, a whisper.
Anna-Leena Siikala
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L'Âge d'or, 2023 Le présent article propose une nouvelle lecture du conte « El hombre muerto » (1920) de l’écrivain uruguayen Horacio Quiroga, en partant de l’analyse des effets de sacralisation, d’incantation et de conjuration du logos.
Eva Le Roux
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Polish healing conjurations (zagowory) in the collection of Lithuanian conjuration’s manuscripts
Vilnius University Open Series, 2021 Lithuanian conjurations (zagovory) constitute a unique part of Lithuanian folklore. In the collection of conjurations’ manuscripts described in the publication of Daiva Vaitkevičienė (2008), we will find records of these archaic texts in various ...
Tatjana Vologdina
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From Ukrainian linguocultural space. Хмара (Hmara)
Вісник Харківського національного університету імені В. Н. Каразіна. Серія Філологія. Vìsnik Harkìvsʹkogo nacìonalʹnogo unìversitetu ìmenì V.N. Karazìna. Serìâ Fìlologìâ., 2021 The article considers the image word хмара which is among the important constituents of Ukrainian linguocultural space; the peculiarities of its semantic content are defined, the specific character of the way the mythological implications are expressed ...
Оксана Модестівна Гурова
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