Features of the use of certain plant species in folk practices by small peoples of the North
AUTHORS : Lebedeva T.P. | Tkachenko K.G.
RELEVANT UNIVERSITIES : Botanical Institute named after V.L. Komarov RAS, St. Petersburg
YEAR : 2017
RESUME Many folk medical-prophylactic, hygienic beliefs and rituals are associated with a bath. It performs a huge health, hygienic and ritual role in the life of the people. It is an important attribute of life. A special analysis of the published scattered ethnobotanical data on the use of different wild-growing plant species of the local flora in a bath by small peoples of the north (for example, Veps, Karelians, Izhora, Vod, Estonians-Seto) has
not been made yet. Ethnobotanical studies conducted over the past 20 years in a limited area of the North-
West Federal District of the European part of Russia among the small Finno-Ugric peoples of the North,
compactly residing in the North-West of the Russian Federation, and Russians living with them, have revealed
similarities and differences in use of one and the same wild plant species of local flora.
