Zavadskaya V.V. Spoon as anthropomorphic image of Ukrainian mythology // Materials of the Ukrainian ethnology. Collection of scientific papers by The National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Institute of Art, Folklore and Ethnology of Ukraine named by M.T. Rilskiy. Association of ethnologists. – Vol. 4 (7). – K., 2004. – S.232-236. – Access mode:
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One of the important images of the Ukrainian mythology, a spoon, is considered. Spoon is a magic talisman for its owner, but when the spoons owner dies, it becomes dangerous for other people. Plural folklore and ethnographic material demonstrates an individual character of the spoon and its connection with the definite person. Spoons were used in the burial rituals and in the fortune tellings as the communication channel for the deads.
