Wikidata:Property proposal/ritual object
ritual object edit
Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Generic
| Description | Ceremonial and ritual objects associated with, and used as part of, rites and rituals practiced in everyday life and in rarer cultic and communal rites |
|---|---|
| Represents | ritual object (Q95975088) |
| Data type | Item |
| Domain | items about objects used and associated with ceremonies and rituals e.g. Q212950 |
| Allowed values | subclasses of ceremony (Q2627975) and ritual (Q189819) linked to items e.g. tallit (Q212950) |
| Allowed units | not applicable |
| Example 1 | Gelie Duncan (Q43395400) → corpse powder corpse powder (Q5172605) |
| Example 2 | Gelie Duncan (Q43395400) → snake skin snakeskin (Q7547211) |
| Example 3 | Gelie Duncan (Q43395400) → toad toad (Q6453151) |
| Example 4 | Gelie Duncan (Q43395400) → cat house cat (Q146) |
| Example 5 | bar mitzvah (Q28807008) → tallit tallit (Q212950) |
| Example 6 | communion (Q63352413) → sacramental wine sacramental wine (Q958011) |
| Example 7 | Akhand Path (Q2828991) → Sri Guru Granth Sahib Guru Granth Sahib (Q203249) |
| Source | Recorded in Survey of Scottish Witchcraft Database in documenting of objects used in ritualised practices e.g. Investigation of Bessie Aiken [1] |
| Planned use | To add the ritual objects on the accused witch items in Scotland already created. |
Motivation edit
I am working on importing elements of the Survey of Scottish Witchcraft database (1563 to 1736) with data science students this semester and there is good information on the types of ritual objects recorded in the case investigations for the accused witches in the database (corpse powder, mole's feet, cats, garlic, cheese, toads, snake's skin etc.). The motivation therefore is that there is a gap in that Wikidata could model the ritual and ceremonial objects in a number of different rites and ceremonies as covered in the Britannic page which would serve historic datasets like this one but equally could also serve modern instances. Stinglehammer (talk) 19:33, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
Discussion edit
Support could see some really interesting visualisation coming out of this... Lirazelf (talk) 12:09, 1 October 2020 (UTC)- Support --John Cummings (talk) 12:28, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
- please provide more examples from other religions Germartin1 (talk) 09:35, 7 October 2020 (UTC)
- Support Seems like we should be describing this aspect of the world's cultures. MartinPoulter (talk) 15:39, 8 October 2020 (UTC)
- @Stinglehammer, Lirazelf, John Cummings, MartinPoulter:
Done --Tinker Bell ★ ♥ 05:49, 16 October 2020 (UTC)
