‘May You Eat Your Father’s Flesh!’: Concept of Father in Kalmyk Curses
Introduction. Curses constitute an earliest stratum of ethnic oral narratives and still remain somewhat understudied. The former’s shaping resulted from belief in magic and the latter’s supposed ability to bring harm onto one’s opponent. The article attempts a textual analysis of oral curses once re...
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Language: | English |
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Российской академии наук, Калмыцкий научный центр
2023-09-01
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Series: | Oriental Studies |
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Online Access: | http://kigiran.elpub.ru/jour/article/view/4705 |