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The English version of this article cf. Folklore. An Electronic Journal of Folklore 2002, vol. 20.

Research in ethnomedicine involves the observance of the views, principles, and behaviour regarding illnesses and diseases by different people and cultures. The activities of folk healers and turning to them for help are still topical, even though the awareness of peopl...

Karl-Feliks Sauks has left a deep imprint on the history of economics and on the Faculty of Economics as researcher, teaching staff, head. He received a candidate’s degree, became a professor and worked as a head of Chair for 17 years. F. Sauks spent his childhood and s...

The article is dedicated to the old pine known as the Laatre cross pine which has dried. Since old times, crosses have been cut into trees when people are buried. This pine was the oldest living cross-tree. The trunk of the tree is thickly covered with cross marks. The ...

The article treats in depth the uniqueness of discourse and demonstrates why concepts from medical discourse do not enter legends in unchanged form. Since they are unfit for presentation as a separate structured plot, they have no function in folk narratives. However, t...

The article focuses on the cult of the Virgin Mary in the village of Popovo, Pernik region, and the way that cult becomes a factor in maintaining the local memory of the community that experienced traumatic changes in Bulgaria at the beginning of the socialist period. T...

Biosecurity measures in European slaughterhouses to prevent the contamination of pig carcasses with Salmonella The main aim of the study was to define the best biosecurity practices that would reduce contamination of pigs' carcasses with Salmonella and Hepatitis E Virus...