Feb 16, 2017 07:56
7 yrs ago
Russian term

навести/снять поррчу

Russian to English Medical Religion эзотерика
Добрый день!

Помогите, пожалуйста, коллеги элегантно перевести эту фразу.

спасибо.
Change log

Feb 16, 2017 16:02: Alexander Konosov changed "Language pair" from "English to Russian" to "Russian to English"

Discussion

Rita Vesels (asker) Feb 25, 2017:
Thank you all!
I was surprised by such great response even from people who don't seem to work in my language pair. Of course, it is порча not поррча.

Great answers! I shall consider some of them.

PS. I do know about multitran-)
Turdimurod Rakhmanov Feb 16, 2017:
Может to cast / put a (magic) spell // to break / remove smb.'s spell or a spell on / over smb?
Erzsébet Czopyk Feb 16, 2017:
@crockodile esoteric text, there are different procedures
crockodile Feb 16, 2017:
Erzsébet Czopyk Feb 16, 2017:
Rita, ar vienu «р» навести порчу

Proposed translations

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13 hrs
Selected

to case/lift a curse

Straightforward.

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Unless you make a typo.

cast/lift

Note from asker:
yes, it's a typo in this case -))
Maybe u meant cast rather than case a curse?
Peer comment(s):

agree LilianNekipelov
12 hrs
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: " Thank You, Rachel! Love the answer."
6 mins

cast/remove/ an evil eye

cast an evil eye/remove an evil eye
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3 mins

bewitching

Сглазить, навести порчу. ...... bewitching

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The Spiritual History of Branson-Land of the Osage
https://books.google.hu/books?isbn=1257030566 -
Gaye Newman Lisby - 2011 - ‎Religion
... been bewitched so that he could kill nothing with it and thus sold it on that account. ... in a tremendously involved system of signs and omens and esoteric auguries.

The Dictionary of the Esoteric: 3000 Entries on the Mystical and ...
https://books.google.hu/books?isbn=8120819896 -
3000 Entries on the Mystical and Occult Traditions Nevill Drury ... claimed to have developed a technique for photographing spirits and discarnate entities. ... and went from village to village seeking those accused of "bewitching" their fellows.

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Bewitching Development: Witchcraft and the Reinvention of ...
https://books.google.hu/books?isbn=0226764591 - Oldal lefordítása
James Howard Smith - 2009 - ‎Social Science
... giving as much as $US100 to have a curse or some other form of sorcery removed from them. ... week, for the rituals had become spectacles. ... in which Maji Marefu exposed the formerly esoteric mechanics of indigenous witchcraft to the ... However, his cures were themselves a form of occultism, even violence, and many ...

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Eaten Seher (Magic) | Ruqya Treatment
ruqyatreatment.com/eaten-sehermagic/
When sorcery and/or jinn present in the body, the patient can feel various discomforts during treatment, because all that is being removed. The number of times ...
Note from asker:
мне каежется, что bewitching относится к любовной магии- любовный приворот, привязка...
thanks for so many references, Erzsébet. I appreciate it.
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1 hr

hex

"Hex" is a cool-sounding word that means to cast a spell.

To do the opposite, you can "lift a curse"
Note from asker:
Many thanks, Sofia!
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4 hrs

To curse/to heal

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Reference comments

6 hrs
Reference:

Навести/снять порчу

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortune_telling_fraud

Все про curse, remove curse, lift curse, cast a spell и т.д.
Note from asker:
Большое спасибо, Денис!
Peer comments on this reference comment:

agree Oleg Lozinskiy
1 hr
Спасибо.
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