Popular superstitious beliefs of the Tuvans: Typology and features
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https://doi.org/10.25178/nit.2022.4.16Keywords:
Tuvan language; Tuvans; Tuvan folklore; superstitious beliefs; paroemiaAbstract
The article examines such a small genre of Tuvan folklore as superstitious beliefs (demdek) and provides insight into their linguistic and culturological role for revealing universal and ethnic components in the language worldview of the Tuvans. We used information recorded from elderly Tuvans and translated it into Russian as the source data for the research. We also turned to the publication by M. B. Kenin-Lopsan. It was published in Russian, so we made a reverse translation of the given folk beliefs into the Tuvan language.
Relying on classifications developed in Russian folklore studies, the authors have divided the folk superstitious beliefs of the Tuvans into the following types: predictive, day-to-day, relating to dreams, aesthetic, hygienic superstitions, as well as examples of omens associated with celestial bodies. Each of these types of folk beliefs is presented in the examples (with translations). There is also a division into three main groups: predictive, day-to-day, and those related to dreams. The most common group is predictive superstitions. Popular beliefs are constructed according to the formula “forecast — prediction” and relate to certain unambiguous facts.
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Darzha U. A., Suvandii N. D. and Kuzhuget M. A. Narodnye primety tuvintsev: tipologiia i osobennosti [Popular superstitious beliefs of the Tuvans: Typology and features]. New Research of Tuva, 2022, no. 4, pp. 213-224 (In Russ.). DOI: https://doi.org/10.25178/nit.2022.4.16
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Urana A. Darzha, Tuvan State University
Candidate of Philology, Associate Professor, Director, Institute of Pre-University Education, Associate Professor, Department of Russian Language and Literature, Faculty of Philology, Tuvan State University.
Postal address: 9B Mongush Sat St., 667010 Kyzyl, Russian Federation.
Tel.: +7 (923) 262-66-96.
E-mail: urana-63@mail.ru
Nadezhda D. Suvandii, Tuvan State University
Candidate of Philology, Associate Professor, Senior Researcher, Laboratory of Ethnology and Linguoculturology; Dean, Philological Faculty, Tuvan State University.
Postal address: 9B Mongush Sat St., 667010 Kyzyl, Russian Federation.
Tel.: +7 (923) 268-93-69.
E-mail: suvandiin@mail.ru
Maria A. Kuzhuget, Tuvan State University
Senior Researcher, Department of Tuvan Philology and General Linguistics; Head, Literature Museum, Tuvan State University.
Postal address: 9B Mongush Sat St., 667010 Kyzyl, Russian Federation.
Tel: +7 (923) 383-03-55.
E-mail: kuzhuget.m55@mail.ru
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