Чудеса в традиционной народной культуре Сицилии и Сардинии: представления и практики

This is an anthropological study of the concepts of miracles and the miraculous, and the practices that have developed around them, in two regions of Italy – Sicily and Sardinia. The article is written primarily on ethnographic material collected by the author in 2017–2020, as well as on published descriptions of the individual and collective knowledge of “experiencing a miracle”. The article analyzes the “disposition” of the inhabitants of the regions under study to the occurrence of a miracle, the range of manifestations and “range” of miracles, harbingers of the phenomenon of a miracle, the polymorphism wonders, their symbolism and functionality, the place and role of Christian part of the miracle, the psycho-emotional aspect of meeting it, the nature of “miracle”, its source and various other factors.