Abstract
The article analyses foreign words found in apocryphal prayers from the 15th to the 17th century, with particular attention to two groups of loanwords: names of snakes and names of objects. The loanwords, calques and untranslated transliterated lexemes of Greek origin used in the prayers against snakes are associated with the magical power of words in the Bulgarian tradition. In other prayers, names of utilitarian means to help the suffering are found. The words under consideration have been preserved in the Bulgarian language, demonstrating its connections with Greek and Western European languages during the Middle Ages.
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