Apocryphal prayer
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Apocryphal prayer (in the Index of Repudiated Books, false prayer) is a prayer modeled on the church prayer, but containing a large number of insertions from folk beliefs, incantations, in some cases rearrangements or excerpts from apocrypha.[1][2] Performed as apotropeia (amulet ritual), it is also used for medicinal purposes. Apocryphal prayers are mostly texts of bookish origin.[3] It is found in all collections of zagovory.[2]
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