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The aim of the present article is to describe the folk etiology of child’s dreads as well as a presentation of the magical methods found in Russian folk culture for its cure. The material under study showed that as a means of magic various strategies have been used, for example: request, comparison, claim, demand of the dread to leave.
keywords in English:
demonology, magic, fright, spell, Russian folkore
number of pulisher's sheets:
0,7
affiliation:
Wydział Filologiczny : Instytut Filologii Wschodniosłowiańskiej