The presentation looks at links between Moon phases and trees based on a corpus of 1,450 texts of Estonian folk beliefs. There is an important part of new data which are connected with agrarian lifestyle, also a data when and how to plant the trees, vegetables etc., or predict the crop.
Paper long abstract:
The presentation looks at links between Moon phases and trees based on a corpus of 1,450 texts of Estonian folk beliefs. As an additional criterion, whether and during which Moon phase the tree was processed, medicine prepared or what else further consideration was taken. The basis of the presentation is a religious corpus of texts (~150,000 texts) entered, from which a sample for this presentation (keywords: folk astronomy and trees) was prepared. There is an important part of data which are connected with agrarian lifestyle, also a new data when and how to plant the trees, vegetables etc., or predict the crop. The digital data corpus received is analyzed more closely, distribution maps and statistics are included. This is primarily data on Estonian religion, parallels are presented sporadically concerning the Baltic tradition.