The Issue of Pandemic in Folklore and Mythology
Abstract
Global impact of the Covid-19 pandemic has claimed millions of lives and has changed the ways in which each of us relates to. The situation created the necessity to go back to distant past when the empiric medicine did not exist and men believed in nature spirits affecting their lives. Georgian folklore and time – honored customs give opportunity to restore the history of medicine the genetic roots of which is connected to the pagan period of life, to so called magical-religious medicine.