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- Title
Elgeta XIX a. pabaigos--XX a. pirmosios pusės Lietuvoje.
- Authors
DŽEKČIORIŪTĖ, Vita
- Abstract
This paper discusses the image of beggars at the end of the 19th c.-first half of the 20th c. in Lithuania and their visual expression in the then-prevailing everyday customs of the rural communities. In these traditions the beggars are revealed as especially important individuals, belonging to a distinctly marginalized section of the population. The activities of beggars can be treated in two ways -- they can hurt or they can help. Performing the functions of magicians, sorcerers, and fortune-tellers, beggars became responsible for human health, the welfare of crops, livestock and the rest of the household. When traveling through the villages, praying, collecting alms, helping in a wide range of everyday life and having a distinctive social status, beggars appear as intermediaries between "this side" and the "other side", and are particularly revered.
- Subjects
LITHUANIA; BEGGARS; NINETEENTH century; TWENTIETH century; RURAL development; EVERYDAY life; PUBLIC welfare
- Publication
Folk Culture, 2013, Vol 152, Issue 5, p76
- ISSN
0236-0551
- Publication type
Article