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Since 1989 Panorama of Russia has specialized in academic and reference publications from the Russian Federation and the Commonwealth of Independent States.
Ikota: Mifologicheskii Personazh v Lokal`noi Traditsii
[ Hiccup: Mythological personage in local tradition]
Moscow: RGGU, 2013 310 p Serie: Traditsiia - tekst - fol`klor. Tipologiia i semiotika pbk. 13 x 20 cm ISBN: 9785728114871 Language: Russian
This monograph studies the phenomenon of the hiccup, the belief that a person is taken over by the evil one, still exists among Old Believers - Bezpopovtsy. This branch of Old Believers lives on the upper Kama River. The author analyzes the genesis, semantics and pragmatics of this mythology, its social and cultural functions. (0.335 kg.)