VOTIVE OFFERINGS AND OTHER MAGICORELIGIOUS HEALTH PRACTICES IN MODERNGREECE

Authors
DIAMANDOPOULOS AA MARKETOS SG
Citation
Aa. Diamandopoulos et Sg. Marketos, VOTIVE OFFERINGS AND OTHER MAGICORELIGIOUS HEALTH PRACTICES IN MODERNGREECE, Humane medicine, 9(4), 1993, pp. 296-302
Citations number
NO
Categorie Soggetti
Medicine Miscellaneus
Journal title
Humane medicine → ACNP
ISSN journal
08287090
Volume
9
Issue
4
Year of publication
1993
Pages
296 - 302
Database
ISI
SICI code
0828-7090(1993)9:4<296:VOAOMH>2.0.ZU;2-E
Abstract
The authors describe the survival of the ancient health-seeking ritual of hanging multicoloured rags and ribbons from the branches of sacred trees, both in Greece and Cyprus. They present original photographs a nd review the existing literature. They discuss the origin of the cust om, its meaning, its symbolism and its universal appeal. and they comp are the attitudes of this custom to certain psychologic attitudes enco untered in hospitalized patients today.