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Song Information
Kind:Demotic
Category:Prayers
Area: Calabria (Italy), S. Italy, Bova Marina (Calabria)
Nationality:Italian
Language:Hellenophon S. Italy
Dance:-
Scale:-
Collector:Dhionissopoulos Nikos, Liavas Lambros
Recording Place:Bova Marina, Calabria
Recording Date:01/04/1981
Recording Responsible:Dionyssopoulos Nikos - Liavas Lambros
Duration:1:41
Other characteristics:Performed by natives, A capella
Register Information
Register date:18/12/1995
Register:Moraitis Thanassis
Comment:Sung in the Greek-speakinh villages of Calabria by the women before going to sleep. S. Kyriakidis reports that exactly the same prayer is known in Greece, where women say it to protect themselves from snakes when sleeping in the fields at night.
Storage media:The Hellenic musical tradition in South Italy (LP 152)
Artists/Instruments
Nuccera Caterina:Recitation
Nuccera Caterina:Singer

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