| Original Title | Dialect | Informant | Genre Form | Genre Content | ID | glossed | Audio |
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| uj jeːxʷ | middle lozva mansi (LM) | Manzirkov | prose (pro) | Ethnographic Texts (eth) | 1402 | by Eichinger, Viktoria | – |
| Text Source | Editor | Collector |
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| Munkácsi, Bernát (1896): Vogul népköltési gyüjtemény. In: IV. kötet. Életképek. Elsö füzet. Vogul szövegek és fordításaik. Budapest: Magyar tudományos akadémia, 416-17. | Munkácsi, Bernát; Kálmán, Béla | Munkácsi, Bernát (MU) |
| English Translation | German Translation | Russian Translation | Hungarian Translation |
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| "Bear dance" | – | – | – |
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| Munkácsi, Bernát 1896: OUDB Middle Lozva Mansi Corpus. Text ID 1402. Ed. by Eichinger, Viktória. http://www.oudb.gwi.uni-muenchen.de/?cit=1402 (Accessed on 2024-05-14) |
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| Bear dance. |
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| If they kill a bear they undress (cut off) its head and front paws. |
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| They come to the edge of the village, stop and set off the fire-arrowy [thing] (rifle), the village people (should) know, a bear has been killed. |
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| Afterwards they let out a shout and enter the village with the bear. |
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| Women jump towards them, throw snow and water at it and douse it. |
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| Afterwards the bear hide is stuffed with hay so that it looks like a bear. |
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| Then they place it on a table. |
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| The table is covered with a cloth and the bear's body is covered except for the face. |
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| They place the bear's head on its front paws and stretch it out. |
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| Silver (coins) are placed on its eyes, (so that) it can watch, its ears are sewn with beads. |
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| In front of the bear vodka, meat, bread and fat are placed, the people give a food offering. |
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| Drink vodka, eat meat, |
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| they say, they bow their heads. |
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| Bear, don't be angry, don't be angry, |
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| Then one man starts the bear dance, he makes a face of birchbark, wraps his head with a large cloth, takes a cloth into his hand and performs a dance in front of the bear. |
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| The dombra is played. |
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| A man sits under the table, he growls like a bear, if the dancer comes close, he jumps out. |
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| He won't allow you to come near, he says. |
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| When they are done dancing, they shout out. |
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| They dance six days for the bear, on the seventh day they carry him out. |