Russian Peasant Beliefs Concerning the Unclean Dead and Drought, Within the Context of the Agricultural Year
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8933840 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Elizabeth A Warner, Elizabeth Ann Kronk Warner (0000-0002-0490-2525, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 122 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 155-175 |
| Publication date | 2011-06-26 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Folklore (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0015-587X • E-ISSN: 1469-8315 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0015587x.2011.570521 |
| OpenAlex | W2046300056 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
In this article I shall examine the interrelationship between lifecycle ritual, in the form of disposal of the unclean dead, and certain agrarian concerns and rituals of the Russian rural community relating to the early summer and, more specifically, to the Whitsun period. In so doing I hope to shed some further light on a puzzling belief; namely that the interment, both in consecrated ground and in earth generally, of the unclean dead could cause drought and other adverse weather conditions. Documented since the thirteenth century, this belief persisted among the East Slavs until the early part of the twentieth century and often led to the desecration of grave-sites
Aesthetics · Agrarian society · Agriculture · Ancient history · Archaeology · Context (archaeology · Ethnology · Geography · Peasant · Period (music · Eurasian Exchange Networks · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies · Historical and Archaeological Studies · History · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,22 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2017 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |