GITEIES

The giteies ( incantations ) are an important chapter in the field of popular culture . As texts , prose or poetry , apotropaic or therapeutic nature events accompanied by ritual formula or magic of nature and objects move between magic, in healing , in superstition and worship . Always delivered orally from generation to generation , thus maintaining a tradition that comes even before the use of writing . For this reason and rhyme character who helps them remember it . This collection , Giteies , Democratic therapeutic Crete, is a significant contribution , along with , in addition to recording and preserving the material , offers the opportunity to study the dialect , thematic and structural motifs that appear in them, but also for a view of a world closer to nature , outside technical - and often cruel - current culture .