2 papers in the library · publishing 2018-2023
Nouvelle revue théologique March 22, 2023 Mirjam Mencej, É. Cs, Ünsal Yılmaz et al.
: Â ¸sıks , renowned for their adeptness at improvisational poetry, are viewed as the inheritors of certain shamanic functions within historical contexts. Originally, shamans assumed diverse roles encompassing poetry, medicine, and priesthood before social and religious transformations prompted a gradual shift of the poetic responsibilities, first to individuals termed ozan (bards) and later to...
Preternature Critical and Historical Studies on the Preternatural March 1, 2018 Mirjam Mencej
ABSTRACT The article discusses the experience of being “carried by witches” narrated to me repeatedly during my field research in rural eastern Slovenia in 2000–2001. The experience, which was ascribed to the agency of witches who “enchanted” their victims and led them astray, typically occurred in the forest at night and implied disorientation, sometimes (but not necessarily) the vision of...