Names, classification and social portrait of the sorcerer in the Karelian environment
Pashkova Tatiana V.,
Candidate Sc. {Philology}, Associate Professor, Department of Baltic-Finnish Philology, Petrozavodsk State University (Petrozavodsk, Russia), tvp-1979@mail.ru
The author compares the terminology naming a sorcerer in various dialects of the Karelian language and defines his social portrait.
Keywords: sorcerer; ethno-linguistics; beliefs; Karelian traditional medicine; paganism; Christianity.
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