Studia Litterarum Studia Litterarum 2500-4247 IWL RAS https://doi.org/10.22455/2500-4247-2022-7-4-254-275 Research Article Articles Belarusian and Ukrainian Charms Against Perelogi: Inter-genre Rollcalls Agapkina Tatyana A. red@studlit.ru December 25, 2022 2022 March 09, 2022 The word perelogi (Ukrainian перелоги, Belarusian пералогi, перэлогi) ‘livestock and horses disease’ is mentioned in the folk veterinary medicine of some regions of Eastern Slavia. The article is devoted to the analysis of this phenomenon in folklore and traditional culture of Belarusians and Ukrainians. It is considered from the point of view of its terminology, accompanying beliefs, magical practices and numerous charms used to treat animals. The charms that are commonly read against perelogi are based on the plot “Three (two) characters share what they find among themselves; the devil gets the perelogi.” The article explores the possible folklore origins of this plot, as well as the circumstances of the devil’s appearance in it, which is extremely atypical for East Slavic healing charms. The author comes to a conclusion that the main role in this was played by tales about the fooled devil and especially by ATU/СУС 1030 “Harvest Division.” In addition, the plot was most likely influenced by such circumstances as the somatic “parallelism” of devil and animal and the secondary mythologization of the term perelogi. These two circumstances supported the figure of devil which is key for this plot, using elements of folklore imagery, rhyme, cultural semantics of the keyword and other factors. folklore of the Eastern Slavs charms tales livestock diseases Copyright © 2026, IWL RAS 2026 1. 1 Agapkina, T.А. Vostochnoslavianskie lechebnye zagovory v sravnitel’nom osveshchenii: Siuzhetika i obraz mira [Eastern-Slavic Magical Healing Spells in Comparative Studies: Plots and the Image of the World]. Moscow, Indrik Publ., 2010. 810 p. (In Russ.) 2. 2 Eleonskaia, E.N. “Zagovornaia formula v skazke” [“Incantation Formula in a Fairy Tale”]. Eleonskaia, E.N. Skazka, zagovor i koldovstvo v Rossii [Fairy Tale, Incantation and Witchcraft in Russia]. Мoscow, Indrik Publ., 1994, pp. 69–78. (In Russ.) 3. 3 Mansikka, V. “Predstaviteli zlogo nachala v russkikh zagovorakh” [“Representatives of the Evil Inclination in Russian Incantations”]. Zhivaia starina, issue 4, 1909, pp. 3–30. (In Russ.) 4. 4 Sravnitel’nyi ukazatel’ siuzhetov: Vostochnoslavianskaia skazka [Comparative Index of Plots: East Slavic Fairytale], comp. by L.G. Barag, I.P. Berezovskii, K.P. Kabashnikov, N.V. Novikov. Leningrad, Nauka Publ., 1979. 440 p. (In Russ.) 5. 5 Tolstoy, N.I. “Otkuda d’iavoly raznye? Chemer” [“From Where Devils are Different? Chemer”]. Iazyk i narodnaia kul’tura: Ocherki po slavianskoi mifologii i etnolingvistike [Language and Folk Culture: Essays on Slavic Mythology and Ethnolinguistics], comp. by S.M. Tolstaya. Moscow, Indrik Publ., 1995, pp. 280–288. (In Russ.) 6. 6 Toporkov, A.L. “K 100-letiiu so dnia vykhoda v svet knigi V. Mansikki ‛Über russische Zauberformeln mit Berücksichtigung der Blut- und Verrenkungssegen’.” [“To the 100th Anniversary of the Publication of the V. Mansikka’s Book ‛Über russische Zauberformeln mit Berücksichtigung der Blut- und Verrenkungssegen’.”]. Antropologicheskii forum, no. 10, 2009, pp. 279–296. (In Russ.) 7. 7 Toporkov, A.L. “Okhotnich’i zagovory na porchu oruzhiia u vostochnykh slavian” [“Hunting Incantations for Damage to Weapons Among the Eastern Slavs”]. Ethnolinguistica Slavica. K 90-letiiu akademika Nikity Il’icha Tolstogo [Ethnolinguistica Slavica. To the 90th Anniversary of Academician Nikita Ilyich Tolstoy]. Moscow, Indrik Publ., 2013, pp. 234–252. (In Russ.) 8. 8 Cyhun, G.A., editor. Jetymalagichny slownik belaruskaj movy [Etymological Dictionary of the Belarusian Language], vol. 1–. Minsk, Navuka і tjehnika Publ., 1978–. (In Belarusian)