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Peasant folklore of Palestine
Palestine expedition fund quarterly statement for 1893 • London • Published In 1893 • Pages: 203-217
By: Baldensperger, Philippe James.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article, written in the form of the author's answers to questions that were posed, recounts some of the peasant lore in Palestine such as sacred trees and animals, ghosts and spirits, their distinguishing characteristics and powers, their preferred places of dwelling, the rituals in their honor, the native theories of luck, the evil eye, enchantment, and small references to the stories that have become associated with historical figures. The names of ghosts and spirits, sacred trees and animals, etc., are rendered in Arabic with their English transliteration.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Traditional history
- Dance
- Literary texts
- Spirits and gods
- Luck and chance
- Sacred objects and places
- Magic
- Ethnozoology
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Palestinians
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2005
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Middle East
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Middle East
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Folklorist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Olivia Maldonado ; 1956
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- ca. 1891
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- ca.1891
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Israel
- NotesAdditional notes
- Philip J. Baldensperger
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Palestinian Arabs