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Hagiology

noun
1.
Literature narrating the lives (and legends) of the saints.





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... meet with the days of the week as "mothers." Perhaps the most remarkable of these is "Mother Friday," a curious product of the mingling of Christian hagiology and Slavonic mythology, of St. Prascovia and the goddess Siwa. On the day sacred to her, "Mother Friday" wanders about the houses of the peasants, avenging herself on such as have been so rash as to sew, spin, weave, etc., on ...
— The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought • Alexander F. Chamberlain


Words linked to "Hagiology" :   literary work, literary composition, fable, legend


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