Blessings -. Short genres of oral folk work, according to the shape of close to Proverbs, and according to the message and desires containing, they are closer to the healthes and bumbs. With the belief in the magical power of the word, as well as curses, they represent magical formulas. But, unlike the curses that with-hold the evil coob, a desire to happen, blessings move in the opposite direction – contain the desire to happen something nice. They are genetically related to family and calendar rites and originate from times when the man believed that with certain magical formulas, human destiny in a positive direction can be directed. As an appealing genre, they are usually companion of rituals and customs. Blessing can only be reduced to a few words in a strongly thickened utterance, although it is often a rhetorically decorated and a poet ski developed formula. External system of appellate genres is only potentially shaped literary form and its genre unstable position contributed to receiving namations as prayer and a health. When involving the wedding, blessings of the type are pronounced: to bless to come to glory! Cannets replicate: God bless you, happy wedding to you! In glory, the host is healthy and blessed: Lord Health gives, Berket in the field, male children in the house! There are blessings when building a house, when performing agricultural work, etc. When it is silled, the field is stabbed in the Oranus, and it is said: as it is spindle full, so fills Barter (to motte grain!). Lit.: Marko Kitevski, for some short speaking People’s resources from Kumanovo, articles for Macedonian folklore, Skopje, 1989; The same, the curse of the cure, Skopje, 1991; Bone Velichkovski, short genres and children’s folklore in Kumanovo and Kumanovo, folklore and ethnology in Kumanovo and Kumanovo, Skopje – Kumanovo, 255-289. B. C.
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