The Treasure-bearer in East Slavic and Finno-Ugric Contexts
The goal of this article is to conduct comparative and structural-semantic research into belief narratives concerning flying serpents and treasure-bearers in East Slavic (Belarusian, Estonian Russian, other Slavic traditions) and Finno-Ugric (Estonian, Votic, Livonian, Finnish, Vepsian) regions rela...
| Published in: | Studia mythologica Slavica |
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| Main Authors: | , |
| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | German English Croatian Italian Slovenian |
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ZRC SAZU, Založba ZRC
2022
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.3986/SMS20222504 https://doaj.org/article/287246126d544ce692d327e622247a74 |
| Summary: | The goal of this article is to conduct comparative and structural-semantic research into belief narratives concerning flying serpents and treasure-bearers in East Slavic (Belarusian, Estonian Russian, other Slavic traditions) and Finno-Ugric (Estonian, Votic, Livonian, Finnish, Vepsian) regions related to Baltic and Scandinavian beliefs. The source material was collected between the 19th and 21st centuries. Based on the available materials, a character profile was created with respect to the following features while describing a flying serpent and a treasure-bringer: description of the origin (how and from whom the supernatural being originates), general forms of appearance, aspects of time and location, as well as the creature’s behaviour (active/passive; rituals) and genre affiliation (the process of storytelling, perception of the character). |
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