Русский календарно-обрядовый фольклор Сибири и Дальнего Востока: Песни. Заговоры. - 1997. (Т. 13).

SUMMARY In the volume "The Russian Calendar and Ritual Folklore o f Siberia and the Far East. Songs, Charms and Spells" are given two genres o f the Russian ritual folk lore o f Siberia and the Far East calendar songs and the spells (charms and exorcisms). A huge collectors’ work o f many generations o f researchers and students o f local lore (philologists historians ethnogra­ phers, ethnomusicologists, lovers o f country’s ancient art) for the first time during 160 years — from the 30s o f the XlXth century till the beginning o f the 90s o f th is century has been summarised. The archive materials from Moscow, Sanct-Peterbourgh and the Siberian cities (Barnaul, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Krasnoyarsk, Irkutsk, Ulan-Ude, Vladivostok), d ifficu lt o f access pub­ lications and present day expedition data served as a source for the book. The texts have been written down and recorded in all the regions o f Siberia and the Far East: from the basin o f the Irtysh and the Ob rivers till Primorye and Kamchatka. There are 354 texts o f calendar ritual songs and more than 370 spells, the majority o f them being published for the first time. The songs are presented according to the cycles o f the people’s calendar taking into account their relations to the Russian agrarian holidays for example: New Year (Christmas carols), songs o f Christmas fortune telling, Pan-cake week, Spring songs, Kupala, harvest. Spells are divided according to the functional and thematic principles: 1) house-hold and professional (hunting, fishing, farming, cattle-breeding, bee-keeping); 2) daily protective (against snake’s bites, thieves, fire, bugs and etc.); 3) amorous (charms, scaring away); 4) spells o f social character; 5) protective and healing (against sleeplessness, bleeding, toothache, fever and many other diseases). The calendar and ritual folklore had been evoked by the agricultural labour and by the everyday life peculiarities o f the ancient pagan Slavs. W ith the adoption o f the Christianity in Russia there appeared the Chris­ tian m otifs and images in the calendar songs. A unique style combining the pagan and Christian features and ideas has been formed and th is found the reflection in the Russian calendar and ritual poetry. A song has become not