{"id":15576,"date":"2020-05-13T00:53:09","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T21:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-to.rest\/blog\/customs-and-rituals-for-choosing-a-place-to-build-a-house-in-transcarpathia\/"},"modified":"2021-04-18T01:18:47","modified_gmt":"2021-04-17T22:18:47","slug":"customs-and-rituals-for-choosing-a-place-to-build-a-house-in-transcarpathia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/go-to.rest\/blog\/en\/customs-and-rituals-for-choosing-a-place-to-build-a-house-in-transcarpathia\/","title":{"rendered":"Customs and rituals for choosing a place to build a house in Transcarpathia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

House construction<\/a> the construction of commercial buildings was an important event, if only because it required significant funds and assistance from relatives and neighbors. The initial and responsible stage was the choice of a”good place”. Along with the centuries-old folk experience, which dictated where it is better, depending on the nature of the area, to build residential building<\/a>, there were beliefs that preserved traces of pre-Christian beliefs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First we looked for the so-called ” clean\u201d\r\na place that hasn’t been desecrated yet. An unkind (impure) place was considered, first of all, the limit,\r\nthere is a place that does not belong to anyone. This place serves as a road for the devil and the unclean\r\nspirits. Someone would have died in that place. This was considered an unkind place,\r\non which the “devil” fell, that is, the star that sinned. It was impossible to build in the immediate vicinity\r\nclose to the fork, because this is the place for bosorkani-witches (“vitornici\u201d), and\r\nat the place where someone was killed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the village Likitsary<\/a> the house was not built on “graves” \u2013 place where there were heaps of stones, because such places were often infested snake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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