A Near-Death Experience Narrated by a Vepsian Woman-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

A Near-Death Experience Narrated by a Vepsian Woman

Published:2024-06-01 Issue:1 Volume:18 Page:113-128
ISSN:2228-0987
Container-title:Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics
language:en
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Author:

Arukask Madis¹^ORCID,Saar Eva²^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Associate Professor Department of Estonian and Comparative Folklore Institute of Cultural Research , University of Tartu Jakobi 2-435, 51005 Tartu , Estonia

2. Research Fellow in Finnic Languages Department of Finno-Ugric Studies Institute of Estonian and General Linguistics Jakobi 2-413, 51005 Tartu , Estonia

Abstract

Abstract This article* focuses on the immediate near-death experience of an elderly woman living in traditional Vepsian culture. We analyse which universal, and which more culturally motivated features are present in her story narrated to us in 2018. We conclude that, despite the strong association with animistic beliefs in the informant’s everyday life, the experience is dominated by elements specific to vernacular Orthodox Christianity. The article presents a translation from Vepsian of a fragmentary personal experience narrative.

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Link

https://www.sciendo.com/pdf/10.2478/jef-2024-0008

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