Question
Description acceptable. Alan Dundes (“DUN-diss”) criticized both nationalist and “Indianist” folkloristics in a “casebook” about this ritual, which inspired Slovenia’s Rojna Vrsta (“ROY-nuh VER-stuh”) dance. For 10 points each:
[10h] What ritual inspired folk songs like “Master Manole (“muh-NO-lay”),” “The Bride of Strumica (“STROO-meet-suh”),” and “Arta’s Bridge”? Vuk Karadžić (“KAH-ruh-jeech”) recorded Old Rashko’s gusle (“goose-leh”) performance of an epic about a vila who demands this ritual in Skadar.
ANSWER: foundation sacrifice [accept builders’ rites or masonic sacrifices or cornerstone deposits; accept immurement, inhumation, walling up, entombment, or word forms or equivalents; accept descriptions of sacrificing humans to protect a building or any specific type of structure; accept The Walled-Up Wife; prompt on human sacrifice or burial or equivalents by asking “in what context?”]
[10m] Infant burials in Lepenski Vir’s houses may represent this type of protective magic exemplified by witch-marks and witch bottle deposits. Amulets provide this counter-magic named for warding off evil in Greek.
ANSWER: apotropaic (“APP-uh-troh-PAY-ick”) magic [or apotropaism] (Brian Hoggard’s Magical House Protection discusses the idea that dried cats found in buildings represent a reduced tradition of foundation sacrifice.)
[10e] These objects confer apotropaic (“APP-uh-troh-PAY-ick”) protection from Greek Christmas demons called kallikantzaroi (“kal-ee-KANT-sah-roy”) in a similar tradition to Scandinavian ones named for Yule.
ANSWER: logs [accept branches, wood, kindling, twigs, tree trunks, or other types of wood; accept Yule logs or skakantzalos or badnjaks; prompt on fires, flames, hearths, fireplaces, or equivalents by asking “burning what objects?”]
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| Berkeley A | Brown | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Chicago A | North Carolina A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| North Carolina B | Chicago C | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Rutgers | Claremont Colleges | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Columbia A | WUSTL A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Ottawa | Columbia B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Georgia Tech | Michigan | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Indiana | Stanford | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Illinois | Johns Hopkins | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Kentucky | Cornell B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Maryland | NYU | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Harvard | McGill | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Cornell A | Minnesota A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Truman State | Minnesota B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Chicago B | Purdue | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Chicago D | South Carolina | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Northwestern | Toronto A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Arizona State | Toronto B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Vanderbilt | Berkeley B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Virginia | Penn | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| WUSTL B | Florida | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Waterloo | Texas | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Yale A | Iowa State | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Duke | Yale B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |