Fairies and witches at the boundary of south-eastern and central Europe (FF communications) - Tapa blanda

Fairies and witches at the boundary of south-eastern and central Europe (FF communications, 243)

Soft cover. Condición: New. 1st Edition. 95 pages ; 24 cm. The aim of the present paper is to examine the fairy-like beings and the remains of the cult connected with them on the Balkan Peninsula. The remains of fairy beliefs preserving elements of various archaic mythologies and traces of a fairy cult both survived in Hungarian folk- belief mostly after being integrated into the belief system of witchcraft. From this comes the second - though less detailed - subject of this paper: to show the connections between the witches in Hungarian folk-belief and the fairies chiefly in the Southern-Slavic and Rumanian territories of the Balkans. These S Slavic-Hungarian and Rumanian-Hungarian connections also show us the process by which mythical beings were transformed into human beings and "demonic" characteristics became attributes of the "human witch". On the basis of these contacts we can also examine, together with their geographical aspects, how the archaic belief systems preceding the appearance of witchcraft were gradually integrated into witchcraft. The fairies of the Balkanic peoples were important antecedents of the supernatural character, of the "demonic side" of the S Slavic and indirectly of the Hungarian witches, too. Accordingly, closer study of fairies might also help us to answer the questions surrounding witch beliefs not only in Hungary but - due to the special geographical location of the Hungarian language territory in a fairly wide Central and SE European area. Nº de ref. del artículo: PGTIEDX31

Contactar al vendedor