навести/снять поррчу

English translation: to case/lift a curse

07:56 Feb 16, 2017
Russian to English translations [PRO]
Medical - Religion / эзотерика
Russian term or phrase: навести/снять поррчу
Добрый день!

Помогите, пожалуйста, коллеги элегантно перевести эту фразу.

спасибо.
Rita Vesels
Latvia
Local time: 21:25
English translation:to case/lift a curse
Explanation:
Straightforward.

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Note added at 13 hrs (2017-02-16 21:47:08 GMT)
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Unless you make a typo.

cast/lift

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Rachel Douglas
United States
Local time: 15:25
Grading comment
Thank You, Rachel! Love the answer.
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Summary of answers provided
4 +1to case/lift a curse
Rachel Douglas
4bewitching
Erzsébet Czopyk
4hex
Sofia Gutkin
4To curse/to heal
Maria Kaverina
3cast/remove/ an evil eye
El oso
Summary of reference entries provided
Навести/снять порчу
Denis Shepelev

Discussion entries: 5





  

Answers


6 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
cast/remove/ an evil eye


Explanation:
cast an evil eye/remove an evil eye

El oso
Russian Federation
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3 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
bewitching


Explanation:
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 ...

Erzsébet Czopyk
Hungary
Local time: 20:25
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in HungarianHungarian
PRO pts in category: 4
Notes to answerer
Asker: мне каежется, что bewitching относится к любовной магии- любовный приворот, привязка...

Asker: thanks for so many references, Erzsébet. I appreciate it.

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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
hex


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

To do the opposite, you can "lift a curse"

Sofia Gutkin
Australia
Local time: 06:25
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in RussianRussian
Notes to answerer
Asker: Many thanks, Sofia!

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4 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
To curse/to heal


Explanation:
X

Maria Kaverina
United Kingdom
Local time: 19:25
Native speaker of: Russian
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13 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
to case/lift a curse


Explanation:
Straightforward.

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Note added at 13 hrs (2017-02-16 21:47:08 GMT)
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Unless you make a typo.

cast/lift



Rachel Douglas
United States
Local time: 15:25
Works in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 48
Grading comment
Thank You, Rachel! Love the answer.
Notes to answerer
Asker: yes, it's a typo in this case -))

Asker: Maybe u meant cast rather than case a curse?


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  LilianNekipelov
12 hrs
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Reference comments


6 hrs peer agreement (net): +1
Reference: Навести/снять порчу

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

Все про curse, remove curse, lift curse, cast a spell и т.д.

Denis Shepelev
Bulgaria
Native speaker of: Native in BulgarianBulgarian, Native in RussianRussian
PRO pts in category: 4
Note to reference poster
Asker: Большое спасибо, Денис!


Peer comments on this reference comment (and responses from the reference poster)
agree  Oleg Lozinskiy
1 hr
  -> Спасибо.
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