CALUL ÎN POEZIA MAGICĂ. DIN RĂSPUNSURILE LA CHESTIONARUL I AL MUZEULUI LIMBII ROMÂNE.

The present study aims at identifying and interpreting the role that the horse plays in disenchantments and other magical formulas recited during spell casting. Furthermore, it points at the significance that this complex animal has in dreams or superstitions. More specifically, we extracted our corpus from the answers to question number 138 of the first survey issued by The Museum of the Romanian Language in 1922 (the first one in a collection of eight surveys): "What do people believe about the horse? What role does it play in carols, spells, and disenchantments?" The answers were provided by village intellectuals, mostly teachers and priests. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]