Self -folk signs and beliefs. Superstitious rites and customs, legendary legends about faces and places

Reprint from the publication. Vitebsk, 1897. Provincial typography. Nikolai Yakovlevich Nikiforovsky is a full member of the Imperial Society of Lovers of Natural Sciences, Anthropology and Ethnography and a full member of the Vitebsk provincial statistical committee. The material for the book was assembled in the Vitebsk province. From the preface: "I find sufficient moral support for the release of new ethnographic labor, which gives the collection of common people and beliefs, mainly with the joining of superstitious rites and customs, as well as legendary legends about faces and places, which all are exclusively recorded In Vitebsk Belarus, they are known here under the common common people, somewhat ironic name "Babsky Zabobons". Under the first (signs), I mean a superstitious interpretation and view of actions and phenomena that exist in fact, and under the second (beliefs) - an permissible belief in real objects, or belief in objects, actions and phenomena created by fiction. "
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