Marisia - Maros Megyei Múzeum Évkönyve 29/2. (2009)
Cultură spirituală
270 Marísia XXIX emphasized the importance and essentiality of the use of a rich number of some very interesting tools for magic. We could mention here the use of a black hen, present in black magic practices found all over in other different foreign cultures. In our research we also left room for the magic rituals regarding folk people's both family, and communities' feuds. We made an analysis of the complex practices used, such as taking mandrake for quarrels and feuds. A more developed chapter in our investigation was kept for the analysis of magic practices for love, practices that consist in complex formulas and rituals, such as the ones for ''bringing the partner in the way", a witchcraft having a very powerful mythical-magical substratum with a special kind of a language. In the study of this ritual, we enhanced the verses used during the incantation, verses that end in a poem of a great artistic beauty. Our study of the practices used in magic is focused on a comparative analysis of the folklore found in Romania but also in other countries, the entire original and the particular elements being thus brought into light. At the end of our research we tried to highlight the value, the richness, the originality, but mostly the ancientness of the practices of magic in this conservative geographical and cultural area, by using not only the instruments used during the magic performances, but also the ritual gestures, spoken formulae, and the ritual places for magic performance: the fireplace of a kiln, the chimney, the log for cutting wood a.s.o. We underlined the place that magic keeps in this space and, by enforcing its elements; we highlighted the ancientness of this back-country Romanian folk civilization.
