Myth, Legend and Romance; An Encyclopaedia of the Irish Folk Tradition

Comhar ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 50 (7) ◽  
pp. 21
Author(s):  
Dúghlas Sealy ◽  
Dálthi Ó hÓgáin
Keyword(s):  
Folk Tradition

God's Peculiar People: Women's Voices & Folk Tradition in a Pentecostal Church

1991 ◽  
Vol 104 (411) ◽  
pp. 121
Author(s):  
Jeff Todd Titon ◽  
Elaine J. Lawless ◽  
Ruel W. Tyson ◽  
James L. Peacock ◽  
Daniel W. Patterson
Keyword(s):  
Women's Voices ◽  
Folk Tradition

"What God hath joined ...": Religious perspectives on marriage and divorce in late Victorian Canada

2009 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-25
Author(s):  
Marguerite Van Die
Keyword(s):  
Final Section ◽  
Community Networks ◽  
Lived Religion ◽  
Property Law ◽  
Religious Perspectives ◽  
Recent Debate ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Folk Tradition

Prompted by recent debate and legislation in Canada about the definition of "marriage," this article explores the impact of socio-economic change and stress upon marriage as an institution among the middle class in Victorian Canada. It does this through the lens of "lived religion" as defined by Robert Orsi and others, taking the form of a case study of a marital scandal involving a respected Presbyterian minister in Brantford, Ontario in 1883. This is placed within the wider context of competing definitions of marriage as found in folk tradition and community networks, in various ecclesiastical marriage liturgies, and in marriage, divorce and property law. In its final section it examines the contradictions, tensions and anxieties that surrounded these definitions in late Victorian Canada as a result of changes in people's experience of space and time. It concludes by briefly drawing attention to the nature of "lived religion" and its implications in redefining marriage within a society that today has become highly urbanized, secular and pluralistic.

scholarly journals Resurrection, revenance, and exhumation: the problematics of the dead body in songs and laments

2011 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 28-54
Author(s):  
Madis Arukask
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Fairy Tale ◽  
Field Trips ◽  
Dead Body ◽  
Early Winter ◽  
Late Autumn ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Familiar Environment ◽  
Folk Tradition

Different types of folklore texts differ from each other by their function. We can distinguish between genres meant to be believed (like legend) and genres recognized in advance as fiction (fairy-tale). At the same time, textual fiction may also have served practical purposes—such as the telling of fairy-tales during the late autumn and early winter for purposes of fertility magic—as used to be the case in the Estonian folk tradition. There are folklore genres that have functioned, among other things, as an accompaniment, comment on, or support to rituals or practices being carried out—for instance, an incantation during a cure, or a lament in death-related procedures, when a person must be separated from his familiar environment. The same textual formulae fulfil different tasks in different genres, which means that they also carry a different meaning. The present paper considers some themes related to the bodily aspect of humanity in various genres of folklore, particularly in songs and laments, as well as in practices related to death and commemoration. As expected, the problems connected with the human body have in these genres undergone transformations of meaning, the understanding and interpretation of which may vary considerably. The mater­ial discussed in the article derives mainly from the Balto-Finnic and north Russian cultural area, partly from the author's own experience during his field trips.

scholarly journals HONORING STEPHEN OF PERM IN FOLK TRADITION OF THE NIVSHERA’S KOMI

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 272-283
Author(s):  
Alexey Nikolaevich Rassykhaev
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Komi Republic ◽  
Local Version ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
Place Of Residence ◽  
Main Area ◽  
The Future ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Folk Tradition ◽  
The Village

The article analyzes the local version of veneration of St. Stephen of Perm among the Nivshera’s Komi. The microlocal folklore tradition of the village Nischera (Komi Republic) is geographically far from the place of residence of the first bishop of Perm and the main area (Lower Vychegda and Vym) of the spread of traditions about a religious saint, who was called the “Zyryansky Apostle”. Meanwhile, the chapel (now lost) in honor of the saint and the saved life icon in the small village Rusanovskaya helped preserve the memory of a religious figure in popular culture. The post-temple life of the icon is amazing: relatives of the shrines who saved from death made a vow to hold home services. According to the established model in the Nivshera tradition off-temple services began to be held also before the reproduction of the icon Stefan Perm. The work attempted to compare scenarios and strategies for conducting home worship in two places. To some extent, the future of such practices will depend not only on the capabilities of the guardians of the icon and the presence of successors of this matter, but also on the socio-cultural situation of the village and interaction with the Orthodox Church. To some extent, the future of such practices will depend not only on the capabilities of the guardians of the icon and the presence of successors of this matter, but also on the socio-cultural situation of the village and interaction with the Orthodox Church. The cult veneration of Stefan Perm in the Nivshera folklore tradition is evidenced by recorded oral stories about a saint who visited the Vishera District, climbing a boat along the river, expelled rats for a long time, saved the village from fire, and provides general patronage to the village Rusanovskaya.

scholarly journals SUSTAINABLE VILLAGES

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nada Kosanovic ◽  
◽  
Suncica Vjestica ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Sustainable Management ◽  
Nature Protection ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Educational Structure ◽  
Integrated Rural Development ◽  
Management Of Resources ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Folk Tradition ◽  
The Village

Despite the fact that we live in a country where the farmers' associations are created among the first on the Old Continent, and where one of the first Institute for Nature Protection is created, statistics warn us that the demise of several hundred Serbian villages and thus the emptying of strategically important areas of the state of Serbia today, is a serious development problem. In this paper an analysis of the rural, age and educational structure of the population, in rural areas of the Republic of Serbia, has been performed. The authors believe that the situation is not hopeless and point out that the sustainable development of the village is possible only if favorable local preconditions for it are met. Therefore, it is necessary to revive and institutionally expand the competencies of rural local communities as a form of local rural self-government in the Serbian folk tradition. Accordingly, decentralization and polycentric development are the main conditions for the renewal of the population and devastated parts of Serbia. Moreover, native networks and integrated rural development are models applicable through LAP in accordance with the characteristics of the area. Nowadays, it is necessary to raise people's awareness of the importance of rural survival and sustainable management of resources in agriculture, i.e. to breathe new life into rural areas, which would also be a motive for staying in the countryside.

A Grave Situation: An Examination of the Legal Issues Raised by the Life and Death of Charles Byrne, the “Irish Giant”

2013 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas L. Muinzer
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Legal Issues ◽  
Common Ancestry ◽  
Northern Irish ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Local Site ◽  
John Hunter ◽  
Folk Tradition

AbstractCharles Byrne was an eighteenth-century celebrity “Irish giant” who requested burial upon nearing death, but whose corpse was procured against his wishes by the surgeon John Hunter. Hunter reduced Byrne's corpse to its skeleton and exhibited it as the centerpiece of his vast anatomical collection. It has since remained on display in the Hunterian Museum, London. In 2011 it was announced that research conducted on the skeleton's DNA has revealed that several Northern Irish families share a common ancestry with Byrne. This article considers the legal issues raised by Byrne's story. The results of fieldwork undertaken by the author in Byrne's native townland are also discussed, where folk tradition suggests that Byrne wished to be buried foremost at a local site remembered today as “the Giant's Grave.”

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