"Benzedura da Lua" - Portuguese Folk Healing song (LYRICS + Translation) | BENZEDURAS скачать в хорошем качестве

"Benzedura da Lua" - Portuguese Folk Healing song (LYRICS + Translation) | BENZEDURAS

Origin: Portugal Performer: César Prata & Vânia Couto Album: "Rezas, Benzeduras e Outras Cantigas" (2019) A "Benzedura" (blessing) is a composition with magical-religious intention that's still very much alive in the portuguese popular tradition and memory. In this case, when a baby or child is apathetic, paler or sleepless, it was said that it's the moon's "cobranto" (curse; fault; 'evil eye') and one should pray the "benzedura da lua" ('moon blessing'), so to ask the help from the Moon and persuading it to rethink and restore the health of the child in question. However, the same Moon, can also protect a newborn baby if its mother says the right words with another prayer, Or in order to keep the baby away from any illness or disease shortly after birth, the mother would offer or entrust the baby to the moon with other prayer. According to the data collected in Reguengos de Monsaraz (Alentejo), this "ritual" consisted in going out into the street at night during a full moon with the baby in one's arms and, saying the prayer out loud to the moon (many mothers raised the baby up high, towards the moon, as an offering gesture). Above all women who are the keepers and transmitters of this legacy, since culturally it was up to them to pray, from morning to night, and to take responsibility for the blessings. They gained, through experience, a deeper and more specialised knowledge of sacred matters, and were therefore called upon to resolve various health problems and people's concerns. Some of these women were called as "benzedoras" ("blessers"; who know how to execute the blessings) or "virtuosas" ("virtuous"; older woman regarded as witches/sorceress with beneficial and healing powers). Through their words and their knowledge of the word, "performed the blessings", usually requesting the intercession of a saint. Artwork: "L’Ange et la mère - Poème de l'âme" by Louis Janmot (1854)