Vinokurova, I. Yu. MATERIALS ON DEMONOLOGY AND WITCHCRAFT OF ISAEV VEPSIANS IN THE COLLECTION OF ETHNOGRAPHIC BUREAU OF V. N. TENISHEV // Proceedings of Petrozavodsk State University. 2020. Vol. 42. No 5. P. 66–75. DOI: 10.15393/uchz.art.2020.501


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MATERIALS ON DEMONOLOGY AND WITCHCRAFT OF ISAEV VEPSIANS IN THE COLLECTION OF ETHNOGRAPHIC BUREAU OF V. N. TENISHEV

Vinokurova
I. Yu. 		Karelian Research Centre, Russian Academy of Sciences
Keywords:
Vepsians Vytegorsky district Olonets province mythology beliefs mythological stories		 Summary: The article is devoted to the analysis of materials on the demonology and witchcraft of the Vepsians of the Isaevsky rural society of the Chernoslobod volost of the Vytegorsky district of the Olonets province, revealed in the Tenishevsky archive, to determine their specificity and features in comparison with data on the common Vepsian and Russian mythologies. The relevance of the study is due to the fact that nothing is known about the mythological representations of this group. It has been established that a significant part of the elements in the complexes of ideas about demonology and witchcraft among the Isaev Vepsians turned out to be the same with the common Vepsian and North Russian mythological traditions, and sometimes found wider parallels with East Slavic and Baltic-Finnish mythologies. The process of Russification of Isaev’s Vepsians was clearly reflected in their traditional worldview. Russian influence affected the appearance of Russian names for natural spirits and home buildings, their perceptions of them as single and not paired and family host spirits, on the perception of the spirit of the house as a deceased ancestor and patron of cattle, and verbal components of rituals. The Russified version of the mythology of the Isaev Vepsians also included original formations, exact matches of which were not found in other regions.



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