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Tatyana Dordzhieva, About the ritual of ‘cutting a black tongue’


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Terbish, Baasanjav 

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Tatyana says that gossiping is not only bad for gossipers themselves but for their children as well. To counter a gossip, people perform a ritual known as ‘cutting a black tongue’ which is accompanied by reading well-wishes and prayers. The person for whom it is performed also bites a white and a black threat symbolizing the destruction of the power of the gossip.

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Gossip, ritual, prayers

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Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Documentation Project, University of Cambridge

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Sponsored by Arcadia Fund, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin

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