Peasants, Pilgrims, and Sacred Promises Ritual and the Supernatural in Orthodox Karelian Folk Religion

Peasants, Pilgrims, and Sacred Promises Ritual and the Supernatural in Orthodox Karelian Folk Religion

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Lying on the border between eastern and western Christendom, Orthodox Karelia preserved its unique religious culture into the 19th and 20th centuries, when it was described and recorded by Finnish and Karelian folklore collectors. This colorful array of ritulas and beliefs involving nature spirits,...

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Main Author: Stark, Laura (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Helsinki Finnish Literature Society / SKS 2002
Series:Studia Fennica Folkloristica
Subjects:
Finland
Russia
Finno-Ugric languages
Christianity
Alternative belief systems
Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
pilgrimage
karelia
forest
pre-christian
illness
death
Animism
Cattle
Divination
Folk religion
Haltija
Monastery
Orthodoxy
Supernatural
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