Household Items in the Folk Ritual Superstitions of the English, Russian, and Mari Languages

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10.2991/essd-19.2019.118How to use a DOI?

Keywords

superstition, household items, the English language, the Russian language, the Mari language

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to compare folk ritual superstitions of the English, Russian, and Mari languages containing the names of the household goods. All superstitions were chosen using a continuous sampling method. The analysis was prepared using methods of comparison and statistics. All superstitions were divided into four big groups depending on the included lexical unit. Group one is ‘House, parts of the house’. Group two is ‘Kitchen appliances’. Group three is ‘Bed, bedroom accessories’. Group four is ‘Household goods’. The analysis has shown that the biggest number of superstitions with the names of household items is in the Russian language, the biggest group is Group 4 ‘Household Goods’, the most spread units are ‘mirror’ and ‘broom’, the universal units are ‘window’, ‘door’, ‘lock’, ‘table’, ‘spoon’, ‘knife’, ‘cradle’, ‘mirror’, ‘broom’.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Ekaterina Fliginskikh
AU  - Svetlana Yakovleva
AU  - Ksenia Vavilova
AU  - Tatyana Soldatkina
AU  - Maria Naletova
PY  - 2019/07
DA  - 2019/07
TI  - Household Items in the Folk Ritual Superstitions of the English, Russian, and Mari Languages
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Education Science and Social Development (ESSD 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 533
EP  - 537
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/essd-19.2019.118
DO  - 10.2991/essd-19.2019.118
ID  - Fliginskikh2019/07
ER  -