Архаические народные обряды и верования украинцев Подолья как источник реконструкции древней культуры славян
Archaic folk rituals and beliefs of the Ukrainians of Podolia as a source of reconstruction of the Slavic ancient culture

Summary/Abstract: Ukrainian Podоlia is the southern outskirts of Eastern Slavia. It is known that the phase of the chronology of the researched fact in the peripheral area is more archaic than the phases in the central area, and therefore the folk rituals and beliefs of the Podolyans can serve as a reliable source for the reconstruction of the ancient culture of the Slavs. The article presents archaic features in separate fragments of the folk culture of the Ukrainians of Podolia: folk medicine and magic, calendar rituals, agrarian traditions and meteorology. The empirical basis of the study was fi eld records of dialectic texts on ethnographic topics, made by the author in the period 2006–2014 in more than 100 villages of Vinnitsa region, and to a lesser extent materials of local history written sources of the late XIX – early XX centuries. Folk medicine and the magic of Podolyans, agrarian traditions and meteorology include an extensive arsenal of various means, united into an integral complex by the ideas of pantheism, animistic worldviews. Separate fragments of the folk culture of the Ukrainians of Podolia have been presented in the article through the prism of a comparative typological analysis with the involvement of data from other Slavic traditions and signal the preservation of the common archaic stock of the spiritual and material culture of the Slavs.

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