Bárkányi Ildikó szerk.: A Móra Ferenc Múzeum Évkönyve: Studia Ethnographica 7. (Szeged, 2011)

Grynaeus Tamás: Makó és környéke hagyományos orvoslása III.

ZSILÁK Mária 2002 Betegségek okozói: mitikus lények, betegség démonok. (Adatok a magyarországi szlovákok hiedelmeihez és népi orvoslásához). In: Barna G. - Kótyuk E. (szerk.) Test, lélek, természet (Tanulmányok a népi orvoslás emlékeiből). Bp.-Szeged, 127-132. A 2148. sz. Zrínyi Ilona úttörőcsapat néprajzi gyűjtése az 1975/1976 tanévben. MFM-NA 615-76. Ethnomedicine in Makó and its Vicinity by TAMÁS GRYNAEUS The agricultural town of Makó, once the centre of Csanád county, is situated on the river Maros. The population of the surrounding villages are mostly Hungarian, and to a smaller extent Slovak. In his extended research, drawing on written sources, author of present study has summarized and analysed data on ethnomedicine. His analysis is complemented with results of his own field research carried out at the turn of the millennium. The first and second part of his extended research report was published in the Yearbook of Móra Ferenc Museum - Studia Ethnographica 5 and 6, in 2005 and 2008. The third and last part of the research report now deals with issues concerning veterinary, ethnoanatomy and physiological and pathological concepts, also discussing magical and rational means of treatment. Animal diseases are listed according to species, also including descriptions of preventing treatments. As for horse diseases, present study focuses on active hyperaemia and on the healing of the most common injuries. Among cattle diseases digestion disorders, foot and mouth disease and worminess are discussed, together with different procedures facilitating milk production (e.g. removing a spell). Abscess, erysipelas and diarrhoea are discussed as most frequent pig diseases. Poultry diseases are also listed, together with believes and customs facilitating egg production. Among traditional healing practices both rational and magical procedures are presented. Concerning physiological and pathological images, the study discusses ideas about the role of the human body and the possible causes of diseases (e.g. luxuria, animals entering the human body). It also enumerates different supreme beings with healing power, such as shamans and the saints of the Roman Catholic Church. An individual chapter deals with the activity and medical knowledge of village healers. Finally, the study presents the scenes of everyday life bearing a special significance in ethnohealing (e.g. doorsteps, stoves, the Stations of the Cross, shrines), the analogical-magical images manifested in healing practices, as well as the most frequently used home remedies. 240