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Eglė Savickaitė __________________________________________________________________ success, luck and contemporary human being is mostly interested in a practical side of magic. 17 At the end, we should answer the question if something has changed when we entered the 21st century. G. Jahoda thought, ‘Many of the old beliefs are of course disappearing with the spread of Western education and technology […].’ 18 But human being was superstitious and still is. We did not invent something new, unique. Nowadays practiced superstitions are quite similar to those used of old folk because of its creation under traditional pattern. The need to believe in supernatural, feel safe, predict some future events is common to human being. Different kind of sorcery is known and practiced in contemporary world. For example, sorcery related to love, death, air guessing. Mostly remain alive the forms of old folk magic that are urgent to contemporary youth. I could not admit that the subject of marriage or love nowadays became not live. A lot of young girls, even in contemporary world, huddle themselves for if a boy loves her or not, what kind of husband she will have. For example, on Christmas Eve girls draw out papers with written boys’ names or zodiac signs on it from under the pillow. Perhaps only the sphere of death became some kind of taboo nowadays. If earlier, for our ancestors, death was understood as a naturally obvious thing, nowadays this theme or such kind of sorcery is not acceptable, people avoid even to talk about that. Now then the research of contemporary students’ superstitions perfectly discloses the characteristics of contemporary or modern magic, testifies about the tradition succession in contemporary urban space, gets into the light the traditional aspects of magic in the modern society. Notes 1 D. Albas and C. Albas, ‘Modern Magic: The Case of Examinations’, The Sociological Quarterly, Vol. 30, No. 4, 1989, p. 611. 2 K. Э Шумов, ‘Студенческие традисии’, Современный городской фольклор, Москва, Российский государственный гуманитарный университет, 2003, pp. 166-167. 3 Ibid., p. 166. 4 Ibid., pp. 166��67. 5 M.N. MacDonald, ‘Magic and the Study of Religion’, Religiologiques, Vol. 11, 1995, p. 152. 6 N. Belmont, ‘Superstition and Popular Religion in Western Societies: The Genres of Folklore’, Folklore: Critical Concepts, A. Dundes (ed), Vol.3, No. 51, Routledge, London, 2005, p. 163-177. 7 VMU EM 1195 [The Manuscripts of Vytautas Magnus University Ethnology and Folkloristics Departments]. 8 VDU ER 1195; VDU ER 1394. 9 Belmont, op. cit., pp. 163-177. 87
88 The Characteristics of Modern Magic __________________________________________________________________ 10 C. Campbell, ‘Half-Belief and the Paradox of Ritual Instrumental Activism: A Theory of Modern Superstition’. British Journal of Sociology. Vol. 47 (1), 1996. 11 J. Simpson and S. Roud, A Dictionary of English Folklore. Oxford University Press, 2000, p. 347. 12 Albas, p. 606. 13 Albas, pp. 605, 607. 14 Albas, p. 607. 15 VMU EM 1195. 16 E. Savickaitė, ‘Studentų prietarai: tradicijos tąsa ir naujovės’. Tautosakos darbai, Vol. 35, 2008, p. 161. 17 Ibid., p.161. 18 G. Jahoda, The Psychology of Superstition, Penguin Books, Middlesex, UK, 1970, p. 12. Bibliography Albas, D. and Albas, C., ‘Modern Magic: The Case of Examinations’. The Sociological Quarterly. Vol. 30, No. 4, 1989, pp. 603-613. MacDonald, N.M., ‘Magic and the Study of Religion’. Religiologiques. Vol. 11, 1995, pp. 137-153. Savickaitė, E., ‘Studentų prietarai: tradicijos tąsa ir naujovės’. Tautosakos darbai. Vol. 35, 2008, pp. 151-163. Simpson, J. and Roud, S., A Dictionary of English Folklore. Oxford University Press, 2000. Шумов, Э. K., ‘Студенческие традисии’. Современный городской фольклор, Москва, Российский государственный гуманитарный университет. 2003, pp. 165-179. Eglė Savickaitė is a PhD student in Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania. Main field of interests - contemporary magic. This writing is devoted to getting traditional aspects of contemporary, modern magic into the light.
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