Popular Beliefs and Magic Promoting Fertility in the 20th Century and beginning of the 21st Century: The Case of Lithuania
The article examines and analyses magic concerning fertility in Lithuania in the 20th and 21st centuries. The aim is to answer the following questions: What means stimulating fertility are and were used today and in the past? Which have continued from the past and what new ones have emerged, either...
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| description | The article examines and analyses magic concerning fertility in Lithuania in the 20th and 21st centuries. The aim is to answer the following questions: What means stimulating fertility are and were used today and in the past? Which have continued from the past and what new ones have emerged, either borrowed from other cultures or taken from contemporary medicine? The article is based on analysis of ethnographic sources and research, and on data from field research conducted between 2020 and 2022 collected using the in-depth interview method with 60 informants in Lithuania.
Content analysis, comparative, and interpretation methods were used, enabling me to trace the development of magic, and the popularity and origin of beliefs diffused in contemporary society. Information gained from the mass media has also contributed to the definition of fertility magic, as given by members of modern society. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e372c244c9ca4d5aae9c08f8a1642cd22024-02-20T13:33:02ZengELM Scholarly PressYearbook of Balkan and Baltic Studies2613-78442613-78522023-12-01619020910.7592/YBBS6.09Popular Beliefs and Magic Promoting Fertility in the 20th Century and beginning of the 21st Century: The Case of LithuaniaNijole Vailionyte0Vytautas Magnus University Faculty of Humanities Department of Cultural Studies, Kaunas, LithuaniaThe article examines and analyses magic concerning fertility in Lithuania in the 20th and 21st centuries. The aim is to answer the following questions: What means stimulating fertility are and were used today and in the past? Which have continued from the past and what new ones have emerged, either borrowed from other cultures or taken from contemporary medicine? The article is based on analysis of ethnographic sources and research, and on data from field research conducted between 2020 and 2022 collected using the in-depth interview method with 60 informants in Lithuania. Content analysis, comparative, and interpretation methods were used, enabling me to trace the development of magic, and the popularity and origin of beliefs diffused in contemporary society. Information gained from the mass media has also contributed to the definition of fertility magic, as given by members of modern society.https://www.folklore.ee/balkan_baltic_yearbook/YBBS/article/view/160/74beliefs in modern societychildlessnessfertility magicinfertilitymodern lithuania |
| spellingShingle | Nijole Vailionyte Popular Beliefs and Magic Promoting Fertility in the 20th Century and beginning of the 21st Century: The Case of Lithuania Yearbook of Balkan and Baltic Studies beliefs in modern society childlessness fertility magic infertility modern lithuania |
| title | Popular Beliefs and Magic Promoting Fertility in the 20th Century and beginning of the 21st Century: The Case of Lithuania |
| title_full | Popular Beliefs and Magic Promoting Fertility in the 20th Century and beginning of the 21st Century: The Case of Lithuania |
| title_fullStr | Popular Beliefs and Magic Promoting Fertility in the 20th Century and beginning of the 21st Century: The Case of Lithuania |
| title_full_unstemmed | Popular Beliefs and Magic Promoting Fertility in the 20th Century and beginning of the 21st Century: The Case of Lithuania |
| title_short | Popular Beliefs and Magic Promoting Fertility in the 20th Century and beginning of the 21st Century: The Case of Lithuania |
| title_sort | popular beliefs and magic promoting fertility in the 20th century and beginning of the 21st century the case of lithuania |
| topic | beliefs in modern society childlessness fertility magic infertility modern lithuania |
| url | https://www.folklore.ee/balkan_baltic_yearbook/YBBS/article/view/160/74 |
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