РИТУАЛ ПРОДАЖИ РЕБЕНКА (ИЗМЕНЕНИЕ ИМЕНИ) У УКРАИНЦЕВ И РУМЫН БУКОВИНЫ

Abstract

Based on a factual material, mostly unpublished, the article analyzes two rituals, which were used by Ukrainians and Romanians from the ethnographic territory of Bukovina; these rituals were performed in case of illness or malformations of the new-born child, in the long period that preceded the modern medicine. The "sale of the child" and the change of his/her name as magical actions had to protect the infant from the actions of evil 228 Антоний Мойсей, Лидия Потапова, Лидия Вылка spirits. The practices were accompanied by other magical actions, reflecting the worldview of inhabitant of the traditional society.