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<p>This article* focuses on the immediate near-death experience of an elderly woman living in traditional Vepsian culture. We analyse which universal, and which more culturally motivated features are present in her story narrated to us in 2018. We conclude that, despite the strong association with animistic beliefs in the informant’s everyday life, the experience is dominated by elements specific to vernacular Orthodox Christianity. The article presents a translation from Vepsian of a fragmentary personal experience narrative.</p>
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This article* focuses on the immediate near-death experience of an elderly woman living in traditional Vepsian culture. We analyse which universal, and which more culturally motivated features are present in her story narrated to us in 2018. We conclude that, despite the strong association with animistic beliefs in the informant’s everyday life, the experience is dominated by elements specific to vernacular Orthodox Christianity. The article presents a translation from Vepsian of a fragmentary personal experience narrative.

A Near-Death Experience Narrated by a Vepsian Woman

Associate Professor Department of Estonian and Comparative Folklore Institute of Cultural Research

Research Fellow in Finnic Languages Department of Finno-Ugric Studies Institute of Estonian and General Linguistics

Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics

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This article* focuses on the immediate near-death experience of an elderly woman living in traditional Vepsian culture. We analyse which universal, and which...

A Near-Death Experience Narrated by a Vepsian Woman

Published Online: Jun 11, 2024

Page range: 113 - 128

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jef-2024-0008

Keywords
animistic beliefs, near-death experience, Vepsians, vernacular Orthodox Christianity

© 2024 Madis Arukask et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

A Near-Death Experience Narrated by a Vepsian Woman

Published Online: Jun 11, 2024

Page range: 113 - 128

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jef-2024-0008

Keywordsanimistic beliefs, near-death experience, Vepsians, vernacular Orthodox Christianity

© 2024 Madis Arukask et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
animistic beliefs, near-death experience, Vepsians, vernacular Orthodox Christianity