This article focuses on the phenomenon of folk healing in the Polish region of Podlasie. Folk healers, commonly known as szeptuchy (which translates as whisperers) are elderly women who treat a number of diseases by applying different methods of healing such as prayers and incantations. The practices of the folk healers are related both to magical thinking and folk medicine in which main remedy and the most essential part in the process of healing is a magic word. Szeptucha emerges herself in sacrum and by whispering incantations mainly of Orthodox provenience she persuades the disease to leave a sick person. The existence of the healers in Podlasie can be linked to the Orthodox faith and the East Slavic minorities present in this land sinc...
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Region podkarpacki jest swoistym tyglem różnorodności ludowych tradycji. Dawne zwyczaje i obrzędy – ...
Tematem powyższej pracy licencjackiej jest Muzyka folk i jej popularność w polskich mediach. Pierwsz...
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Za przedmiot rozważań w pracy przyjęty został świat roślin – element natury, pełniący jednocześnie n...
The conceptualisation of straw in urban culture (and the literary variety of Polish) and that in fol...
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The region of Podlasie is amongst the most diverse and multicultural parts of Poland and since the e...
The aim of the talk is the presentation of disease, disability and old age in threefold depiction. F...
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Terminological problems in the field of music folklore arise from the multitude of existing views an...
The thesis I made is aobout Nowa Huta, about its pedigree, about its socity and folk tradition which...
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The article reflects on the connections between the Polish drama of the interwar period with such st...
The sketch familiarizes the readers with the conceptual-organizational and popularization work of r...
Region podkarpacki jest swoistym tyglem różnorodności ludowych tradycji. Dawne zwyczaje i obrzędy – ...
Tematem powyższej pracy licencjackiej jest Muzyka folk i jej popularność w polskich mediach. Pierwsz...
This article is an attempt to examine the function of metaphors in Boy-Żeleński’s columns, their rol...
In my Master Thesis I elaborate on world of supernatural phenomenon in romantic literature, based on...
Za przedmiot rozważań w pracy przyjęty został świat roślin – element natury, pełniący jednocześnie n...
The conceptualisation of straw in urban culture (and the literary variety of Polish) and that in fol...
Allegory is about seeing a double meaning in a work of art. In this particular text, literal and hi...
The region of Podlasie is amongst the most diverse and multicultural parts of Poland and since the e...
The aim of the talk is the presentation of disease, disability and old age in threefold depiction. F...
Wydział Antropologii i KulturoznawstwaRozprawa doktorska skupia się na relacji między folkloryzmem a...
Terminological problems in the field of music folklore arise from the multitude of existing views an...
The thesis I made is aobout Nowa Huta, about its pedigree, about its socity and folk tradition which...
The article looks at Gloger’s domestic travels as instances of performative practice, focusing on th...
The article reflects on the connections between the Polish drama of the interwar period with such st...
The sketch familiarizes the readers with the conceptual-organizational and popularization work of r...
Region podkarpacki jest swoistym tyglem różnorodności ludowych tradycji. Dawne zwyczaje i obrzędy – ...