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“Fortune Telling is a Curse on Your Children”: Conver Sion, Fort Une Telling, and Beliefs in Magic Among Roma Women in Estonia Cover

“Fortune Telling is a Curse on Your Children”: Conver Sion, Fort Une Telling, and Beliefs in Magic Among Roma Women in Estonia

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|Jul 2019

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jef-2019-0006 | Journal eISSN: 2228-0987 | Journal ISSN: 1736-6518
Language: English
Page range: 107 - 129
Published on: Jul 20, 2019
Published by: University of Tartu, Estonian National Museum, Estonian Literary Museum
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