Magic and Counter-Magic in Twenty-First-Century Bosnia

Mencej, Mirjam

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“…Éva Pócs in Ágnes Hesz sta med katoliškimi Madžari v Transilvaniji posneli pripovedi, ki potrjujejo realnost čarovniških praks -te so ljudje izvajali sami (Hesz je takemu dejanju celo osebno prisostvovala -ustna informacija) ali pa so jih dali izvesti romunskim pravoslavnim duhovnikom (oziroma so verjeli, da jih bodo ti izvedli za plačilo) (Pócs 2004: 174−176;Hesz 2007: 21−22). V teku svoje raziskave v Bosni in Hercegovini v letih 2016-2019 sem tudi sama posnela vsaj dve prvoosebni pričevanji ljudi, ki so sami izvajali čarovniška dejanja z namenom škodovanja drugim, čeprav interpretirana kot maščevanje drugi osebi zaradi čarovniškega dejanja, ki ga je ta izvedla prva, ali pa kot izničenje učinkov čarovniškega dejanja, ki ga je najprej izvedla druga oseba (Mencej 2018). Vse to kaže, da so verjetno vsaj nekateri ljudje vsaj občasno dejansko izvajali prakse, ki so bile razumljene kot čarovniške in so bile namenjene škodovanju, ter so to včasih tudi odkrito priznavali, kljub temu da so svoja dejanja praviloma upravičevali kot odgovor na predhodno čarovniško dejanje, usmerjeno proti njim samim.…”

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Čarovništvo – diskurz ali praksa?

Mencej¹

2020

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This paper challenges a generally accepted view that witchcraft is always a matter of discourse, and the witch a fictitious person who is ascribed bewitchment but, in fact, performed none. It discusses the hints that point to bewitchments being, at least occasionally, a matter of practice and reality, and a “witch” indeed a practitioner of acts, perceived as harmful. It also challenges the etic difference between the “natural” and “supernatural” acts in the context of witchcraft accusations and argues that there is no clear difference between the former and the latter for people thinking within a witchcraft discourse.

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Čarovništvo – diskurz ali praksa?

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2020

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The Werewolf as a Religious and Ethnic Other in a Herzegovinian Legend

Mencej¹

2019

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The paper focuses on a particular legend about a wrestling match between a human and a dead werewolf, which I recorded during my fieldwork in the Croat (i.e. Catholic) community in Herzegovina in 2017. Based on the analysis of a legend about a wrestling match between a human of Catholic faith and a Muslim werewolf, I aim to show how latent inter-ethnic and inter-religious tensions in multi-ethnic and multi-religious Bosnia and Herzegovina are reflected in this legend about the restless dead. I pay particular attention to how the ethnic and religious Other is constructed in the legend, and demonstrate the prejudices against the religious and ethnic Others that are reflected in it. I argue that its main function was, and still is, first and foremost to emphasise the superiority of the narrator's religion, i.e. Catholicism, over Islam, and to serve as a warning to Catholics against abandoning their faith and converting to another religion.

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Magic and Counter-Magic in Twenty-First-Century Bosnia

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Čarovništvo – diskurz ali praksa?

Čarovništvo – diskurz ali praksa?

The Werewolf as a Religious and Ethnic Other in a Herzegovinian Legend

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