anthropologists, or in this case better, ethnologist deal with all know the manners and customs of the peoples. Says the name already. In particular, they can deal with the religion of ethnic groups. This specialization is widely popular among researchers and recipients, especially good about the insights go so far away realities such as the customs of the inhabitants of Papua New Guinea, Tibetan lamas or Indian Sadhus. The more exotic the better. And thanks to globalization is quickly vorangaloppierender any information on religious practices and people living remotest available. And so in all likelihood, people who enrich with more or less appropriate methods, the seminar area. If known.
counterpoint and complement to such a development would be in this picture the reflection on the religious traditions in the home field is still the life of the big or great-grandparents impressed. This seems, if one believes the author of the work presented here, slowly being forgotten.
writes against such an amnesic tendency and works So Kurt Lussi on. The man is Curator of religious folklore of the Historical Museum of Lucerne with a research focus on the practice of folk religion and folk medicine in the Alps. And so it is particularly the magical-religious points of reference of the alpine habitat, which are reported in this work. Not only in these latitudes mixes since the time of the Christianization of the ancient magical self-help with the forms of institutionalized religion in a way that can be also found still today. This is by no means elaborate systems in the style of early modern Gremoirien, but the magical pragmatism of our country living ancestors. And Lives of these ancestors seemed quite to have had its threatening moments, where you had to protect themselves. Also other evidence of a threatening world exposed rocks, trees, be erected crosses or abandoned chapels on rough areas.
Since it is unstable because unredeemed dead with defensive spells away or it can help insure benign ways in ghosts living in trees witches. At night, ghosts can set it as nightmares, such as the seated table football, which stalled the oppressed. But there is protection. Diseases or home-bound spirits are restless with consecrated pegs included in bar to prevent grotesque shutter holder rambling Being at the entrance to a house. Offer the same protection cow or ox head of cattle when they are mounted on barn doors. When defenses play holy water, just such palm fronds, Kompositamulette with Christian set pieces as small relics and souvenirs of pilgrimages, the protection of holy medals, magic signs on doors and walls and much else, which is illustrated in the book knowledgeable, a role.
engaged in further detailed chapters, the author of exorcisms and healings, the ideas about the witches Sabbath, with the watchdogs of goblins and dwarves and, most revealing, the common origin of such feasts as the old Irish Halloween, for which there is also Central European counterparts. Many of these festivals, which are now risen almost meaningless in the event culture, have a magical-religious background. These origins are presented in detail. The role of dogs as companions of Türst (Army of the Dead) or the cat is an animal of the witches in addition to a host of other ideas documented. The majority of the outstanding
exemplary stories in this book comes from the Swiss Alps, with Kurt Lussi always involve the indigenous traditions of the northern land lines. Several excursions also the links to traditional worldviews of other cultures are shown (eg, Aboriginal). The This book is, in addition to the very entertaining and knowledgeable host of formerly dominant rural views on magic, death and demons, illustrated outstanding, many of the images reflect one-time items from the collection of the author.
A high-quality documentary roots in a kulturnivellierenden consumer age. called
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