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Based on a factual material, mostly unpublished, the article analyzes two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
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spirits. The practices were accompanied by other magical actions, reflecting the worldview
of inhabitant of the traditional society.
