Collector's Categorization: [None]

Local Designation: di disfăcut, di disfăcanie (to undo, for undoing)

Informant: Maria Măliniși (unknown); F age 95, Illiterate

Translator(s): Sanda Golopentia, Catherine Sama

Reference(s): Vasiliu_1934 p. 39–42; Golopentia_1998 039, p. 125–129

Timing & Setting: [None] [V] [None] [T]

Inventory Items
Auxiliaries	Mother of the Lord [V]
Adversaries	Devil (Satan, Devil, Scaraotski, impure ghost) [V]
	Devil [V]
	Wine (wine) [T]
	Water/Dew [T]
	Honey/Sugar (honey) [T]
	Pure (oil) [T]
Substances	Gold (gold) [V]
	Silver [V]
	Wine (brandy) [V]
	Holy oil (oil) [V]
	Esoteric (whisk used by the priest to prepare holy water) [T]
Objects	Clothes (sheepskin coat and cap inside out, ripped pants; white clothes) [V]
	Weapons (whip, arrow, broom, knife) [V]
	Other (pipe between teeth) [V]
	Holy (icons, ladder of gold, staff of silver) [V]

The Charm (Romanian):

S-o sculat cutari marț dimineațî
pi ochi s-o spalat
la icoanî s-o-nchinat
pi cali
pi carari
c-o plecat
gras și frumos.
La un nijloc di cali
l-o ajuns moș tatî Barbâcot
pula-i bati vinili
coaili, călcâili
limba, borta curului
calari pi iepuri
cu ghiși pi umăr
cu cojocu-ntors pi dos
cu ițarii plesniț
cu dințâi rânjâț
cu luleaua-n dinț
cu ochii boldiț
cu cășiula-ntoarsî pi dos.
Cum l-o ajiuns
Jios l-o pus
cu ghișiul l-o ghișiuit
cu calul l-o zdroghit
carnea i-o morsocat
sânjili i-o băut
inima i-o mâncat
fața i-o-ngălbinit
ochii i-o-mpăienjânit
vinili i-o-ncordat
spatili i-o corovănit
chieptu i l-o râdicat
inima i-o mâncat.
L-a-nfricoșat, înfricoșatu-l-o
L-a speriat, speriatu-l-o
l-a săjetat, săjetatu-l-o
pin crierili capului
pin auzu urechilor
pin melșiurili ochilor
pin sfârcu nasului
pin fața obrazului
pin gurmazu gâtului
pin capu chieptului
pin baierili inimii
pin inimî
pi supt inimî
pin rărunchi
pi supt rărunchi
pin crușili șălilor.
Delături di drum l-o dat
cu numi di om mort l-o lasat.
Nimini nu l-o vădzut
nimini nu l-o audzât
răicărân
văicărân
numai Maica Domnului l-o vădzut
șî l-o audzât.
Cu strai albi s-o-mbracat
pi scarî di aur
s-o scoborât
pi toiag di arjint s-o sprijânit
di mîna dreaptî l-o luat
cu gura sfântî l-o-ntrebat:
— Și ti vaicări
și ti raicări?
— Cum nu m-oi văicăra
cum nu m-oi răicăra?
— Nu ti văicăra
nu ti răicăra
la Maria ăi alerga
șî Maria în rachiu ț-a discânta
în rachiu și undilemn ț-a discânta.
Tu ăi be șî te-i spala
cătătura în saț ț-o hi
fața țî s-o roșî
trupu ca porcu s-o-ngrășa.
Pi gurî îi be
pi cur le-i câca
tătî boala o pleca.
Pi moș Barbâcot cu lânî l-oi lega
cu mătura l-oi mătura
cu ghișiu l-oi ghișiui
cu cuțâtu l-oi înjunghia.
Ieș, Satanî
ieș, spurcati
ieș, drași
ieș, Scaraoțchi
duh necurat
numili omului
duhu omului
ptiu, ptiu!
Acu sî ieș
sî ti duși
din crierili capului
din auzu urechilor ...
În codrii lu Modrea te-oi mâna
acolu-i lăcașu vostru
cu mesi întinsî
făclii di șearî aprinsî;
acolu, fată codițî albî n-o-mpletit
buhai negru n-o boncăluit
câni negru n-o latrat
cucoș negru n-o cântat.
Cu mîna dreaptî te-oi lua
în fundu mării te-oi arunca.

Poati sî aibî boalî cât di grea. Discânț în apî cu yin, nieri, undilemn șî cu pămătuf cu cari fași preutu aghiazmî.

The Charm (English translation):

N woke up on Tuesday morning
washed his eyes ¹
crossed himself before the icons
and set out
on the way
on the trail
stout and handsome.
Halfway there
old father Cubitbeard ²
caught up with him
his dick slapping his calves
his balls slapping his heels
his tongue slapping his arsehole
riding on a hare
with a whip on his shoulder
with his sheepskin coat inside out
with ripped pants
with grinning teeth
with a pipe between his teeth
with bulging eyes
with his sheepskin cap inside out.
As soon as he reached N
he put him down
whipped him with the whip
trampled him with the horse
gnawed his flesh ³
drank his blood
ate his heart
yellowed his face
clouded his eyes ⁴
stretched his veins
carved his back ⁵
raised his chest
ate his heart.
He frightened him, frighten him he did
he scared him, scare him he did
he stuck him with an arrow, stick him he did
through the head's brain
through the ears' hearing
through the whites of his eyes ⁶
through the tip of his nose
through the cheeks of his face
through the throat of his neck ⁷
through the top of his chest
through the handles of his heart
through his heart
under his heart
through his kidneys
under his kidneys
through the midpoint of his loins.
He pushed him off the road
left him for a dead man.
Nobody saw him
nobody heard him
railing
and wailing
only the Mother of the Lord saw him
and heard him.
She dressed in white clothes
came down
on a ladder of gold
leaned upon a staff of silver
took him by the right hand
and asked him with her holy mouth:
— Why do you wail
why do you rail?
— How can I not wail
how can I not rail?
— Don't wail
don't rail
you can run to Maria ⁸
and Maria will make a charm in brandy for you
she'll charm in brandy and oil.
You'll drink and wash
your look will satisfy you
your face will redden
your body will fatten like a hog's.
You'll drink them with your mouth
you'll shit them out your ass
all sickness will go away.
I'll tie old Cubitbeard with wool
sweep him away with the broom
whip him with the whip
stab him with the knife. ⁹
Come out, Satan
come out, foul thing
come out, devil
come out, Scaraotski
impure ghost
the name of man
the ghost of man
ptooey, ptooey! ¹⁰
Come out now
go away
from the head's brain
from the ears' hearing ...
I'll drive you to Modrea's forests ¹¹
there is your dwelling
with tables laid
with wax torches lit
there no girl ever braided a white plait ¹²
no black bull bellowed
no black dog barked
no black rooster sang. ¹³
I'll take you with my right hand
and cast you to the bottom of the sea.

However sick it cures them. You make the charm in water with wine, honey, oil, and with a whisk like the one the priest uses to make holy water.

Golopentia_1998/039: Charm scenario: Against hate (undoing a hate charm)

Collected in Moldova by Al. Vasiliu; at Muncelu [Munșelu' (Roman')]

The Charm (Romanian):

The Charm (English translation):