Eurasiatica Quaderni di studi su Balcani, Anatolia, Iran, Caucaso e Asia Centrale

Collana | Eurasiatica
Miscellanea | Armenia, Caucaso e Asia Centrale
Capitolo | Ti proteggo, ti punisco. L’agire imprevedibile dei santi e degli spiriti osseti

Ti proteggo, ti punisco. L’agire imprevedibile dei santi e degli spiriti osseti

Abstract

Many spirits of the traditional Ossetian religion had a double role: on the one hand they protected, on the other they punished in case of transgression. Unfortunately these spirits were highly unpredictable. In many cases the punishment for a transgression was a disease: in fact, in the mountain villages no one believed that a disease could be transmitted from person to person: the idea of contagion was absent.


Open access | Peer reviewed

Presentato: 02 Marzo 2020 | Accettato: 11 Giugno 2020 | Pubblicato 22 Ottobre 2020 | Lingua: it

Keywords AlardyWacillaOssetiansNart eposWastyrǵi


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