A Békés Megyei Múzeumok Közleményei 20. - Száz éve alakult a Békéscsabai Múzeum-Egyesület (Békéscsaba, 1999)

Szendrei Eszter: Suppositions in Sarkad

Szendrei Eszter Márki 1877. Márki Sándor: Sarkad története. Budapest, 1877. Márki 1924. Márki Sándor: A sarkadi hajdúk. Hadtörténeti Közlemények, 1924. Szendrey 1986. Szendrey Ákos: A magyar néphit boszorkánya. Budapest, 1986. Szendrey 1924. Szendrey Zsigmond: Nagyszalontai gyűjtés. Magyar Népköltési Gyűjtemény XIV. Budapest, 1924. Tanulmányok Sarkad múltjából Szerk.: Komoróczy György. H., é.n. Suppositions in Sarkad - Eszter Szendrei Rezume Economic-social /agro proletarian/ and denominational / Calvinist/ conditions of Sarkad situated on south corner of the former Bihar county weren't favourable for popular traditions that they could get more colour and be taken more care. Deficient rememberance in popular belief of this settlement shows closer relationship with settlements in Bihar, and viewing it from wider aspect they fit into tales and ideas built around supposition figures and magical procedures known and wide-spread in all over the Great Hungarian Plain. It appears from the material of today, that supposition elemenets go back deepest to the ancient roots remained the longest but wore out, mostly deprived of their original meanings, combined with elements of other supposition circles. Figures of witch and magic steed are alive even till today. Magic procedures and preventive actions are connected mostly to activity of witches. Ideas linked with magic steed are considerably worn , they emerge even in fragments only seldom. In witchstories animal- and childrendepravation are determining as dominant actions, in demonstrating of exceptional ability exceeding the human power the element of figurechangeing /dog, cat, horse, goose/ is determining. Elements of magic actions go back to age of heathens are : prayer said backwords, analogical activities, importance of hair, body hair, left hand. Application of the prayer murmured backwords is a good example for alloying elements of age of heathens /reproaching backwords/ and Christians /supplication/. Suppositions and magic procedures being alive till the thirties of this century are dying out from practice by our days, fragments can be assembled with more and more difficulty emerge in oral tradition sometimes. (Translated by Schaferné Веке Katalin) 224