Tickling spirits

[Alexander Herbert]

FR,
Is the tickling demon associated with Old Belief? Heretz writes (of old believers) "[for Avvakum] lack of control over the body is tied to general spiritual failure; the "Nikonians" being mired in corporeality is what allowed to the Devil to make use of them."

Could it be that tickling was associated with lacking self control?
-Alexander Herbert
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On Oct 10, 2013, at 6:14 PM, Vadim Besprozvany <vbesproz at UMICH.EDU> wrote:

> В. Добровольская. Щекотка: культурные смыслы и правила.
> http://anthropologie.kunstkamera.ru/files/pdf/014/14_dobrovolskaya.pdf
> 
> 
> On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 5:00 PM, Francoise Rosset <frosset at wheatonma.edu> wrote:
> 
> 
> Добрый день, SEELANGers.
> 
> During a discussion of a chapter from Ivanits's _Russian Folk Belief_, 
> a student asked me about the spirits who could tickle one to death.
> He wondered where that came from, or what the significance is.
> I was stumped. Never thought about it, I guess I just accepted that they
> *could* do it.
> 
> As it happens, the student next to him is very ticklish.
> She let us know that for her, being tickled is well beyond unpleasant, and
> that she reacts by getting semi-hysterical, having trouble breathing, and
> feeling like she's about to drown. That does put a different complexion on
> tickling, but it didn't answer the question.
> 
> Thoughts? ideas? Answers?
> 
> Thank you all,
> -FR
> 
> 
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> Françoise Rosset
> Chair, Russian and Russian Studies
> Wheaton College, Norton MA 02766
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