bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Depression in Arab Adolescents: A Qualitative Study
Authors: Dardas Latefa Ali , Shoqirat Noordeen , Abu-Hassan Hana , Shanti Bilal F. , Al-Khayat Amjad , Allen Deborah H. , Simmons Leigh Ann
Published: June 2019

Depression rates among Arab adolescents are expected to rapidly increase necessitating research-based data to aid in planning effective strategies to implement primary prevention and treatment interventions. The current study aimed to capture Jordanian adolescents' experience of depression, identify perceived contributing factors, and assess their attitudes toward depression interventions. An exploratory, qualitative design was used to collect data from 92 participants (age range = 14 to 17) through 12 focus groups. Two main analytical themes and related subthemes were identified. The first theme focused on participants' perceived mental health status,
Being a Depressed Adolescent
, with two related subthemes:
Symptom Profiles and Feelings of Uncertainty
and
Perceived Roots of Depression
. The second theme focused on the experience of
Living With Depression
and encapsulated two subthemes:
Seeking Supportive Resources
and
Escaping From Labeling
. The study revealed gender differences in the recognition of depression symptoms, willingness to seek care, the ability to communicate symptoms, expectations of care, and views on the best sources of help. For girls and boys, the fear of being labeled as mentally ill contributes to poor engagement in, adherence to, and use of mental health services. A comprehensive approach that considers Arab adolescents' beliefs, attitudes, and experiences in conjunction with the family and social context is needed to address the burden of adolescent depression in Arab nations. [
Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services, 57
(10), 34–43.]
Evidence-Based Psychotherapy Interventions to Improve Psychosocial Functioning in Veterans With PTSD: An Integrative Review
Authors: Reich Kristina , Nemeth Lynne , Acierno Ron
Published: June 2019

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a prevalent diagnosis among Veterans and is linked to psychosocial functioning impairment across various domains, including marriage, employment, parenting, family, and education. Veterans are more likely to be divorced, unemployed, and experience difficulties with parenting. Some research has suggested that improvement in PTSD–specific symptoms can also improve psychosocial functioning. An integrative review was conducted to explore the content and effectiveness of evidence-based psychotherapy (EBP) interventions to improve psychosocial functions and investigate conditions for symptom change. The Socio-Interpersonal Framework Model of PTSD was used to synthesize and organize findings. MEDLINE, CINAHL, and PsycINFO databases were searched and seven articles met inclusion criteria. The main results indicate that EBP interventions can improve psychosocial functioning in Veterans with PTSD. Treating Veterans until they no longer meet diagnostic criteria for PTSD may be beneficial to improve psychosocial functioning. The current integrative review revealed that this area is neglected in research. [
Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services, 57
(10), 24–33.]
Comparison of »Slavic« Pots with Gender and Age of the Deceased
Primerjava prostornine “slovanskih” loncev s starostjo in spolom pokojnika v grobu

Authors: Žorž Alja
Published: June 2019

Within this study I have attempted to determine whether, in Early medieval contexts, we can or cannot trace any links between size of a pot and both gender and age of the deceased. Have Slav people offered pots within graves of their ancestors, and did these pots carry a certain magical message, maybe as a status symbol? Or does the pot rest near the deceased merely from the point of view of use in everyday life, as a private property of the dead, which he will take to »the other side«?With the results of analysis of the volume of the pots I have answered only a few questions, but guessings, which point out interesting inhumation practices of this time, have appeared. In any case, Slavic pots, in the sense of grave offerings, did certainly have a sort of symbolic meaning.
Posamezniki, skupnost in obred v zgodnjem srednjem veku. Primer grobiščnih podatkov z Malega gradu v Sloveniji
The Individuals, the Community, and the Ritual in the Early Middle Ages. An Analysis of Cemetery Data from Mali grad, Slovenia

Authors: Štular Benjamin
Published: June 2019

This article examines archaeological data on an Early Medieval cemetery. Presenting new interpretations of partially known data, its author examines life stories of individuals buried at this site as well as the communitys ritual place. Although interpretations, in which the author strongly emphasizes experiental subjectivity, are the result of certain previously tested methodologies they nevertheless represent a novelty in the research of Early Medieval cemeteries of Central Europe.
Izročilo o jezeru in zmaju kot kozmogonski mit
Le leggende dei laghi scomparsi come mito della creazione del mondo

Authors: Hrovatin Ivan M.
Published: June 2019

Settlement patterns change through time. In Slovenia, some settlements connect their origin to more or less mythical ancestors while others do not remember any of them. The article tries to provide an answer to the question whether traces of cosmogonical myth about the origins of new settlements and communities can be discerned in the tale about the vanished lake.
Medieval Saint Ploughmen and Pagan Slavic Mythology
Stredovekí svätí oráči a pohanská slovanská mytológia

Authors: Golema Martin
Published: June 2019

The author makes an attempt to interpret fragments of tales that were layered by folk tradition upon an official church interpretation of some saints in the Slavic environment from the perspective of new comparative mythology by Georges Dumézil and his school. Attention is mainly focused on the leitmotif of ploughing a certain space around by the saint. Similar leitmotifs can also be found in dynasty legends of Western Slavs, a ritual correlate of these tales has been preserved in several regions of Central and Eastern “Slavic” Europe almost till the present time in the form of ploughing around the village to protect against the plague and natural catastrophes. Looking for the common meaning of these tales and corresponding rituals inside of the system discovered by Dumézil and reconstructing a threefunctional Indo-European ideology, researchers connected them mainly with the third function of fertility and production, out of the presumption that it was typical agrarian magic. The author proposes an alternative interpretation that reveals the possible position of these tales and rituals within the legal pole of the first function of religious sovereignty.
Kaj raste brez korenja? O kamnih s posebnimi svojstvi na Slovenskem
What Grows Without Roots? Stones With Special Characteristics in Slovenia

Authors: Šmitek Zmago
Published: June 2019

The article examines stone and petrified structures of different forms and sizes, ranging from a grain of sand to large rocky formations, which have mythological, religious, healing, fertility, prophetic, protective as well as memorial, glorifying, and symbolic meanings and functions; these make them different from other, “ordinary” stones. Since the mythological core of traditional lore about stones is closely intertwined with some other areas of traditional culture such as religion, rituals, and folk medicine, for instance, they cannot be excluded from this study.
Letjaščaja ikona – semantika i funkcii odnoj legendy
The Flying Icon – the Semantic and the Functions of One Legend

Authors: Anastasova Ekaterina
Published: June 2019

In the article is analyzed the story of the “flying” icons from the Nessebar church of “The Assumption of the Holy Virgin”. These legends describe the miracles made by the icon of the Holy Virgin – the Black (Mad) Mary. The miracles comprise its “flying” to the Greek community in Nessebar in the times of the Ottoman domination and its role in diverse historical trials. The legends of the “flying” icon of Nessebar appear as metaphorical readings of the intensive identification processes that have involved individuals and communities in transitional historical periods.
Razvoj podobe vampirja od folklore do računalniških iger
The Development of the Vampire Image from Folklore to Computer Games

Authors: Govednik Simona
Published: June 2019

This article aims to show the development of the image of vampires from folklore to computer games and tries to determine in which ways folklore enters the mass media and which are its new functions and shapes. Different mass media have changed the image of the vampire for their own needs, and popular culture has embraced this new image, which differentiates from the one we find in tradition. But the vampire, though with a different image, still remains well recognised in popular culture. The vampire in contemporary computer games offers its own image built from different levels like literature and film.
Time and the Indo-European Gods in the Slavic Context
Čas in indoevropski bogovi v slovanskem kontekstu

Authors: Lyle Emily
Published: June 2019

The potential of divisions of time to give clues to the number and identity of the Indo-European gods has not yet been fully explored and an attempt is made here to move forward the discussion of this possible additional source of information. It is assumed that the fragmentary evidence for the Slavic gods can usefully be placed in a wider Indo-European framework. Recent work by Slavic scholars on divisions of time has laid an excellent foundation for further exploration.
Paralele med indijsko in slovensko mitologijo: sledovi skupne indoevropske dediščine
Parallels in Indian and Slovene Mythology: Traces of a Common Indo-European Heritage

Authors: Šmitek Zmago
Published: June 2019

There have been significant linguistic and cultural ties between Europe and India. They may be attributed to the common Indo-European cultural tradition spreading through Eurasia by way of conquests and migrations. Another important factor is their cultural ties, both in the past and more recently (the influence of ancient high cultures, commercial contacts, etc.). The process of Indo-Europeanization had doubtlessly been a long, gradual, and complex one. Due to limited space this essay will focus only on several mythological parallels between India and Slovenia that merit further and more detailed investigation in the future, particularly from a broader comparative perspective.
Podkovana čarovnica in druge povedke o coprnicah v vzhodni Sloveniji
The Witch Bridle and Other Witch Legends in Eastern Slovenia

Authors: Mencej Mirjam
Published: June 2019

Presented are (migratory) legends about witches that were recounted by people living in rural parts of eastern Slovenia. Although people also told stories, or memorates, about their own first-hand experience with witches these legends were not a part of the local witchcraft belief system but generally served to only amuse and entertain.
Rain and Dust
Dež in prah

Authors: Burns Richard
Published: June 2019

The subject of this paper is the pan-Balkan rainmaking practice associated with the names ‘dodola’ and ‘peperuda’ and their many and various cognates. The paper develops out of the author’s experience in writing a long poem based on these customs (In a Time of Drought, 2006; U vreme suše, 2005). The paper proceeds to offer an analytical reading of the well known example of the Balkan rainmaking custom. In the course of close linguistic examination and comparative contextualisation, attention is focussed on one specific motif: the sieve. The paper opens conjectures that relate the Balkan practice to two ancient Mediterranean mythological motifs: first, to Minoan and Mycenaean rainmaking invocations, and, secondly, to the goddess Persephone, via the theories of V. V. Ivanov and V. I. Toporov.
Sampo in kirjokansi
The Sampo and the Kirjokansi

Authors: Goršič Matej
Published: June 2019

The article discusses the most likely explanation to date of the original meaning of the sampo and the kirjokansi – two mysterious artifacts featured in The Ancient Poems of the Finnish People (SKVR). Parallels with the Rigveda are examined next, and the article concludes with the author's analysis of key excerpts from the SKVR presenting his view on how the original meaning of the sampo and the kirjokansi became obscured.
Zur Verwendung von Bilsenkraut und Hundspetersilie im Kultus – ein linguistischer Exkurs
On the Use of Henbane and Fool’s Parsley in Rites – A Linguistic Approach

Authors: Gliwa Bernd
Published: June 2019

The article discusses plant names of henbane and fool’s parsley. A use of them in the cultus of a certain light or heaven god in various Indo-European peoples is suggested. The main property of both plants is the effect of widening the pupils, which results in dazzling.
Die Höhlenkirche im Burgberg von Pitten, Niederösterreich
Jamska cerkev v grajskem hribu v Pittnu, Spodnja Avstrija

Authors: Haider-Berky Wolfgang
Published: June 2019

Since approximately 1050, the cave church in the castle hill of Pitten had been used as a Christian parish church. Evidence supporting an old surmise that the cave had been used as a site for cultic ceremonies since prehistoric times has been discovered quite recently and the surmise can be corroborated at least for the periods of Hallstatt and Late Antiquity. In antiquity, the cave probably served as a Mitra temple, and in the High Middle Ages definitely functioned as a parish church. Containing frescoes painted in the Byzantine style, one of which depicts the birth of Christ, the church seems to be predestined for this very purpose.
Zgodnjesrednjeveški obredni prostor na najdišču Spodnje Škovce
Early Medieval Sacral Area at the Site of Spodnje Škovce

Authors: Žorž Alja
Published: June 2019

The study represented in this contribution has been devoted to the remains of an Early Medieval sacral place discovered in last year excavations at the site of Spodnje Škovce. Several structures, such as double burial, a hearth with uncommon inventory, a small pit with clay daub and animal bones, and a shallow pit with schist stones, have shown ritual characteristics. With the use of interdisciplinary and integral approach to the inventory of the pits and their location, we have been able to improve our knowledge of Slav burial practices, as well as of their organization and ideological system.
Exceptional Depiction on the Strap End from Rakova Jelša
Izjemna upodobitev na pasnem jezičku z Rakove Jelše

Authors: Visočnik Julijana
Published: June 2019

The river Ljubljanica offers many interesting finds, among which is also a silver strap end of circular shape, the upper part of which is bound together by two rivets. According to its shape, it can be dated to the 4th cent. (cca. 400 AD). Our attention is drawn by the unusual ornament with impressed points that is not often attested in Slovenia. On the neck of the strap end, right below the rivets, two Greek letters are engraved: ω and β, which could be initials of the object’s owner. Points in the central circular part are more difficult to explain. It seems plausible to interpret them as various constellations: Cassiopeia, Hyades and Pleiades, Great Bear, and possibly Libra (Equinox). The object must have belonged to a soldier, who most probably came from the East. He or somebody else marked his strap end with his initials and had the central round part engraved with a certain reflection of the sky, which he could use to tell time or to locate himself, in which case we could be dealing with a simple astrolabe.
Kresťanské hagiografie (Život Márie Egyptskej, Život Margity/Mariny Antiochijskej) a texty tzv. jarného vynášania smrti (Moreny, Mařeny, Marzany) u západných Slovanov. Pokus o paralelné čítanie
Christian Hagiographies (The Life of Mary of Egypt, the Life of Marjeta/Marina of Antioch) and Texts on the So-Called Spring Taking Away the Death (Morena) among West Slavs. An Attempt at Parallel Reading

Authors: Golema Martin
Published: June 2019

The study builds on research and interpretation of texts of the so called “death (Morena, Mařena, Marzana) carrying-out in spring” among the western Slavs. The author tries to examine an assumption about the existence of a “chemically almost pure” Slavonic mythology goddess embodying death in texts about death carrying-out in spring. He tries to prove that it is a hybrid text unit originating in several text traditions, both in the identified Christian (Byzantine) text store and in early Slavonic myths.
The Birth of Myth
Rojstvo mita

Authors: Hoppál Mihály
Published: June 2019

The author discusses the parallel concepts of the mythological texts and images, using selected examples mainly from Inner and Central Asia. Discussed are the typological parallels: hill, tree, woman. The research has proven distant typological similarities and mythological universalia.
Indo-European Time and the Perun-Veles Combat
Indoevropski čas in boj med Perunom in Velesom

Authors: Lyle Emily
Published: June 2019

In Studia mythologica Slavica 11, I laid out some ideas about the Indo-European calendar and began to relate the gods of a suggested tenfold pantheon to my model of the year. In the present short note, I refer back to this earlier study with the aim of clarifying the calendar model and I add a tentative interpretation of the Perun-Veles combat as a version of the birth story of the young gods.
Konceptualizacija prostora v pripovedih o nadnaravnem poteku časa
Conceptualisation of Space in Narratives about the Supernatural Passage of Time

Authors: Mencej Mirjam
Published: June 2019

The paper discusses the conceptualisation of space in the narratives about the supernatural passage of time.
Pruss. Curche: etimologija teonima, funkcii božestva; problematika ustanovlenija kul'tovyh sootvetstvij na počve obrjadovoj tradicii vostočno-baltijskih, slavjanskih i drugih indoevropejskih narodov
OPr. Curche: Etymology of the Theonym, Functions of the Deity; Problematics Concerning the Establishment of Cult Conformity of the Eastern Baltic, Slavic and Other IE Tribes’ Ceremonial Tradition

Authors: Kregždys Rolandas
Published: June 2019

The article presents a review of the mention of the Prussian deity Curche in the historical sources and the latest compositions on the Baltic [and not only] mythology and religion; a textual analysis of a fragment of the most ancient source Friedensvertrag zwischen dem deutschen Orden und den abgefallenen Preussen in Pomesanien, Warmien und Natangen, geschlossen unter vermittelung des päpstlichen Nuntius und Assistenz des Bischofs von Culm (1249), in which the name of the god is mentioned, and also the genesis of interpretations of the latest period; a digest of etymological researches in to the theonym; a new hypothesis about the functions of the god and origin of its name, based on the graphic, linguistic, cultural-typological researches of cult and ritual conformity of the Eastern Baltic, Slavic and other IE tribes.
Das Opfern des Schweins in der baltischen Tradition
Žrtvovanje svinje v baltskem izročilu

Authors: Laurinkienė Nijolė
Published: June 2019

/Pig Sacrifice in Baltic Traditions/The article analyzes pig sacrifice and the use of pork as a ritual dish in customs connected with sowing and practiced by descendants of the Prussians. The author explores the custom, which has been described by various sources and practiced in East Prussia in the second half of 17th – century, in relation to the data collected by Lithuanian ethnographers of the 20th century that link the pig to various agrarian processes.Performed during the sewing period and often employing pig parts such as the head, legs, or the tail, the practice may be explained as an echo of sacrificing a pig to the earth and to Žemyna, the goddess of wheat who personifies the earth. It may be presumed that Žemyna had the same function as Demeter had for the Greeks and Ceres and Tellus for the Romans.
The Wise Fool in the Slovak Oral and Literary Tradition
Múdry hlupák v slovenskej ústnej a literárnej tradícii

Authors: Profantová Zuzana
Published: June 2019

The article discusses the wise fool cycle in Slovakia, which includes tricksters not in the sense of a mythical character, but rather as a wise-fool hero a cunning trickster as well as hero that is often underestimated. In the narrative tradition of Slovakia there are several heroes known in the rural environment as well as wise fool heroes in the urban environment. At the narration level a hero ceases to be a real man and becomes an aesthetic projection of his community needs. He becomes a code, expressing the details of human experience in a sensitive way, different from proclaimed requirements, thus projecting a more universal and true statement.
Vidova gora i sveti Vid
Die Vidova gora auf Brač und Sankt-Veit

Authors: Katičić Radoslav
Published: June 2019

A widespread and often repeated notion that Vidova gora on the island of Brač is named after the pagan Slavic god Vid is here subjected to a thorough critical review. Numerous churches of St. Vitus in the Western South Slavic area, especially in the Adriatic, including the Rijeka Cathedral, are continuing the cult of the Slavic god Sventovit, well known from the Early Middle Ages on the Baltic Sea island of Rügen, in a specific Christian form. As a result, it follows that St. Vitus among the Adriatic Slavs actually occurs as interpretatio christiana, but of the thunder-god Perun. The god Sventovit was confirmed only among the Baltic and Polap Slavs. On the other hand, the name of Vid instead of Vit for Latin Vitus derived from paretymology encouraged by South Slavic, not pre-Slavic, folk beliefs. As for Vid as the name of the Slavic pagan god, there are no confirmations. Despite the etymological uncertainties, the name Sventovit for its meaning could be understood as a ritual invocation or nickname of Perun, and so could be the case in Rügen. Due to the great similarity of the names, the name Sventovit could have had the effect that the Christian veneration of St. Vitus replaced the pagan worship of the pagan thunder-god.
Die politische Rolle der heidnischen Priester bei den Westslaven
Politična vloga poganskih duhovnikov pri zahodnih Slovanih

Authors: Wichert Sven
Published: June 2019

This article considers the scientific discussion about the origin and political role of the heathenish priests of the Slavic people, living on the southern rim of the Baltic sea during the Middle Ages. The author follows two approaches. The first approach introduces the existing opinions within current research with respect to the position of the priests within society. The common difficulties in interpretation on the basis of a few sources only result in different explanations for the great political influence of the priests. However, due to missing evidence the existence of a considerable influence cannot be proved. The second approach considers the ritual act itself. The author comes to the conclusion that the political influence of the priests by means of the oracle can be virtually excluded.
Reconstructing the Funeral Ritual of the Kievan Prince Igor (Primary Chronicle, sub anno 945)
Rekonstrukcija pogrebnih obredov ob smrti kijevskega princa Igorja («Nestorjeva kronika», sub anno 945)

Authors: Koptev Aleksandr V.
Published: June 2019

The article deals with the story of the revenge of Kievan Princess Olga to the Drevlyans who murdered her husband, Prince Igor, in 945. Three stages of the revenge are interpreted as a princely funeral ritual, determined by the mythological picture of the tripartite structure of the universe.
Igrici ako archaickí poeti a žreci u pohanských Slovanov. Kam ukazujú stredoveké pramene i niektoré významové dimenzie praslovanského slova *jьgrьcь (jeho odvodenín a kontinuantov) vo vybraných slovanských etnojazykových tradíciach
Actors (Igrci) as Archaic Poets and Sacerdotal Priests among the Pagan Slavs. Medieval Sources and Some Dimensions of the Old Slavic Word *jьgrьcь (Its Derivate and Continuity) as Followed in Significant Slavic Ethnolinguistic Traditions

Authors: Golema Martin
Published: June 2019

Researched are the medieval sources of pagan Slavic actors (igrci) as archaic poets and sacerdotal priests, and some dimensions of the Old Slavic word *jьgrьcь as followed in significant Slavic ethnolinguistic traditions.
Nekoliko misli o mogućem podrijetlu naziva Vlah
Some Ideas on the Possible Origin of the Term Vlach

Authors: Pijović Marko
Published: June 2019

Even though the question of the origin of the term „Vlach“ has usually been linked with the foreign influences on Slavic languages, the author, mostly relying on the observations of linguists, and Slavic (as well as Indo-European) lexical and mythological data, suggests a different explanation of the etymology of the mentioned term. He rejects the majority of the existing interpretations, which are considered generally accepted by Croatian historiography, and attempts to find the possible anwers in the cultural and linguistic heritage of the Slavic peoples.
Sodobne povedke: razmišljanje o »najbolj sodobnem« žanru pripovedne folklore
Contemporary Legends: A Reflection about the »Most Contemporary« Genre of Folk Narrative Research

Authors: Kvartič Ambrož
Published: June 2019

Contemporary legends are an important part of the contemporary folk narrative repertoire and can provide us with vital information on processes in modern day society and culture. They are frequently defined as an account of an unlikely event considered as factual. The content of these stories is often placed in the modern social and cultural reality. They reflect people’s attitude towards the current situation and the changes in their environment. Although traditional motifs can be recognised in contemporary legends, their context is influenced by the “modernity”. In the paper a couple of stories with their interpretations are presented, gathered in the Slovenian town of Velenje.
Doubles Game: Orko & Macić Versus Golem & Homunculus
Igra parova: Orko i Macić protiv Golema i Homunculusa

Authors: Lozica Ivan
Published: June 2019

This short tennis analogy is the author’s attempt at revision and theoretical elaboration of the earlier paper on two imaginary beings of Croatian folklore. Broadening the scope and introducing comparison with similar literary characters and demons of learned culture might help us to better understand the contemporary role of belief narratives in remythologization processes within popular culture.
Kognitywna definicja Peruna: Etnolingwistyczna próba rekonstrukcji fragmentu słowiańskiego tradycyjnego mitologicznego obrazu świata
Cognitive Definition of Perun: An Attempt at Reconstruction of a Fragment of the Traditional Mythological Appearance of the Slavic World

Authors: Łuczyński Michał
Published: June 2019

The author analyses Perun, a supreme Storm-God in Old-Slavic pagan religion and mythology, which is correlated to rock, thunder, lightning and rain, war and justice. The author focuses on that problem as a part of Slavic mythology worldviews. Theoretically and methodologically it is based on the model on cognitive definition as proposed by Jerzy Bartmiński.
Semantika vognju gončarnogo gorna v bilorus'kij kul'turi
The Semantics of the Pottery Kiln Fire in Belarusian Culture

Authors: Rakhno Kostyantyn
Published: June 2019

The article deals with the specific character of the traditional perception of the fire of a pottery kiln in the context of the mythopoetical model of the world among the Belarusians. This flame was identified with lightning, the stormy fire of Perun, which was interpreted as an emanation of this pagan God. The author analyses Belarusian legends on the origin of fire, Slavonic folk beliefs and rites connected with storm, thunder and lightning, the folk attitude to the fire, which was kindled by a thunderclap. There is a close correspondence between these concepts and Vedic mythology. The old Belarusian myth on the origin of the world, where the lightning of Perun plays an important part, has staggering parallels with ancient Vedic cosmogony. The fire in the potter’s kiln is a primordial flame, given by the Thunderer; it is frightful and dangerous owing to its appearance from the other world. It is opposed to ordinary fire, which is secondary and tame. But just this stormy fire, which retains its own demiurgic potential, is used by potters. An archetypal precedent is reproduced in the ceremony of pottery-making, wherein the ceremony is projected in the sacral time of commencement.
Bajkopisna diseminacija mitoloških motiva u Pričama iz davnine Ivane Brlić-Mažuranić na primjeru intertekstualnih poveznica s leksikonom A. Tkanyja
Fairytalemanship-like Dissemination of Mythological Motives in Croatian Tales of Long Ago by Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić, Exemplified by Intertextual Connections with A. Tkany’s Lexicon

Authors: Engler Tihomir , Kos-Lajtman Andrijana
Published: June 2019

In this paper, the connections between Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić’s fairytales and Anton Tkany’s historiographic lexicon Mithologie der alten Teutschen und Slaven are being studied. Exemplified by the analysis of loaned motives, it is shown how intertextuality influences the styling of the author’s discourse. By taking into consideration the broader literary-historical context, the quilting point of the author’s fairy tales is trying to be established by considering her procedure of narrating mythological motives. Thus the position of the texts by Brlić-Mažuranić is seen as the juxtaposition of old folk tales and of so-called artistic fairy tales, which makes it possible to define the author’s discourse type as fairytalemanship, whose focal point is the impulse of preserving national heritage and especially the moral dimension of human existance.
Vražje oko
Der Gewässername »Vražje oko«

Authors: Katičić Radoslav
Published: June 2019

East of Križevci in the northwest of Croatia there is a plateau with a stream called Vražje Oko (Devil’s Eye), whose name illustrates how before the Christian Era the local Slavic population sacralized its immediate environment. Named after its source, the stream may be interpreted as the Eye of god Veles, who is closely connected with water, and is the opponent of the thunder god. The name, as well as its perception, indicates that its origin may be traced to Balto-Slavic pagan beliefs.
Prilog istraživanju običaja obilježavanja mjesta odmaranja s pokojnikom
Contribution to the Research on the Custom of Marking the Resting Place with the Deceased

Authors: Katić Mario
Published: June 2019

The term mirila in the literature involves the stone construction marking the resting place with the deceased. Karsikko, roughly, means “pruning of the tree”, but also denotes memorial inscription features on boards, on building walls or on rocks. Karsikko as a memorial to the place of resting with the deceased has the same function as a cross-tree. At sixteen sites in Bosnia and Herzegovina there are also records of the custom of incising the cross on trees at the road crossings where they rested with the deceased. In this paper I have tried, on the basis of the available literature and newly discovered data, to indicate possible links among the practices of mirila, karsikko, and cross-tree.
Kognitywna definicja Welesa~Wołosa: Etnolingwistyczna próba rekonstrukcji fragmentu słowiańskiego tradycyjnego mitologicznego obrazu świata
Cognitive Definition of Weles~Wołos: An Attempt at Reconstruction of a Fragment of the Traditional Mythological Appearance of the Slavic World

Authors: Łuczyński Michał
Published: June 2019

The author analyses Weles~Wołos, a supreme »Cattle-God« in Old-Slavic pagan religion and mythology, which is correlated to poetry, magic and cattle. The author focuses on that problem as a part of Slavic mythology worldviews.
Nadnaravne kazni kršitve prepovedi predenja
Supernatural Punishment for Breaking the Prohibition against Spinning

Authors: Mencej Mirjam
Published: June 2019

The paper discusses the mythical beings that punish spinsters who violate spinning taboos in the course of the year, and especially the chronological contexts when, according to traditional European beliefs spinning is prohibited, and within which these beings appear.
The Boar in the Symbolic and Religious System of Baltic Slavs in the Early Middle Ages
Dzik w systemie symboliczno religijnym Słowian nadbałtyckich wczesnego średniowiecza

Authors: Kajkowski Kamil
Published: June 2019

The starting point for the title problem is the passus in Thietmar’s of Merseburg Chronicle related to Abodrit’s sedes idolatriae in Retra/Radogošč. This is one of the really few recorded myths associated with the symbolic perception of reality by the Baltic Slavs or the western Slavs in general. This myth, i.a. certifies a supernatural perception of the wild boar as an animal associated with the chthonic world (underworld). However, it seems that his role could be seen in a larger perspective. On the basis of written, archaeological and linguistic sources there was made an attempt to clarify the role of the wild boar in the pre-Christian belief system of the North-Western Slavs. The main questions that the author set himself in the analysis of available resources are: 1. what was the role of wild boar in the mediation with the supernatural world, 2. can we treat him as an animal with sacred connotations, 3. with which of the Slavic gods can he be related, 4. whether and to what extent the wild boar can be perceived as an animal with protective powers, or last but not least 5. did he play any role in the funeral rites and visions of world beyond?
Barke poljske kraljice
The Boats of the Polish Queen

Authors: Nartnik Vlado
Published: June 2019

The short ballad titled Mlada Vida in zamorec v barki (Young Vida and a Negro in a Boat) is but a part of a longer ballad with the title Lepa Vida (Fair Vida) that contains further description of Vida’s stay at the Spanish court, which is reminiscent of the legend Deveti mož (Ninth Man). Of particular interest is the three-week boat ride that in the legend corresponds to three boats that may be explained with three moon phases. The romance Poljska kraljica (Polish Queen) starts with the multiplied counting of boats. The romance no longer focuses on the celestial voyage of the pretty Vida from Taurus to Scorpio and to Pegasus but from Pegasus in the west to Leo and to Virgo in the east. Between them, precisely in the south and located between Taurus and Gemini, are the key moon phases above the constellation of Orion, given that the new moon above this constellation once denoted the vernal equinox. The lunar year thus commenced after the spring new moon with the initial first quarter moon in Virgo, and ended with the twelfth first quarter moon in Leo. Since the counting of first quarter moons resembles to the counting of books in Homer’s poems The Iliad and The Odyssey, as well as in Vergil’s The Aeneid, this opens up the question of the similarity between the siege of Troy in The Iliad and the siege of Venice in Poljska kraljica.
V Hudi luknji straši! – Sodobne povedke o prikazni in njihov kontekst
Huda luknja Gorge is a Haunted Place! – Contemporary Legends about a Vanishing Lady and Their Context

Authors: Kvartič Ambrož
Published: June 2019

Although narratives of a ghost in Huda luknja gorge show textual parallels with an international migratory legend type called ‚vanishing hitchhiker‘, their meaning is clearer when studied as contextualized legends, embedded in the time and space of Huda luknja. Legends about a vanishing lady dressed in black or white have always been adapting to their surrounding socio-historical situation, and were crucially shaped by the establishment of high-school programs in the towns of Velenje and Slovenj Gradec and by cancellation of a railroad connection between Velenje and Dravograd. These events redefined processes of migration through the gorge – especially the migration of young people, who are the most prominent group of the legend‘s tellers.
Problem dvovjerja kao čimbenika hrvatskog kulturnog identiteta
The Problem of Dual Faith as the Croatian Cultural Identity Factor

Authors: Vukelić Deniver
Published: June 2019

This study researches into the dual belief phenomenon, in the context of diversity and mutual cultural influences between Christianity and Pre-Christian Slavic Old Faith (starovjerje) concepts of faith and religion, but also in the context of Post-Christianity forms like Native Faith (rodnovjerje) among Slavic peoples, and in Croatia as well, as it is part of this cultural area and heritage. This research offers definitions and terminological answers both at the theoretical and also at the practical level, through the case study made in the field research in Croatia, which gave numerous important results for this subject. The analysis of this field research reveals some of the terminological and culturological aporias linked with this topic in Croatia of the first decades of the 21th Century.
Chthonic Aspects of the Pomeranian Deity Triglav and Other Tricephalic Characters in Slavic Mythology
Htonski vidiki pomorjanskega boga Triglava in drugi triglavi liki v slovanski mitologiji

Authors: Trkanjec Luka
Published: June 2019

This article explores the nature of West Slavic deity Triglav, postulating he was primary a god of the underworld. Parallels that connect Triglav with chthonic beings from Slavic folklore are highlighted, notably dragons and serpents, and with three-headed characters of more ancient Indo-European myths.
Herberti De Miraculis as a Source to the History of Religion of Western Slavs
Herberti Herberti De miraculis kak istočnik dlja istorii religii zapadnyh Slavjan

Authors: Łuczyński Michał
Published: June 2019

The author presents the results of his research into one of forgotten source materials in the field of religion in Slavic studies, the story “Quomodo zabulus...” from the collection “De miraculis” (1178–1180) by Herbert of Clairvaux. The analysis of the copy leads to the conclusion that it shows the beliefs of the tribes of frontal Pomerania as well as their confrontation with Christianity on the eve of the battle of Dymino (1164) which put an end to Paganism in this faction of western Slavs.
Perunika – cvet nebeskog ili htonskog sveta?
German Iris – The Flower from the Heavenly or Chthonian World?

Authors: Radenković Ljubinko
Published: June 2019

For more than a century, scholars of Slavic mythology have adopted the assumption connecting the German iris (Iris germanica) plant and the cult of the god Perun. The motivation for this connection was mainly found in two (of several dozen) South Slavic names for this plant, “perunika” and “bogiša”, as well as certain calendar customs where it is used. Among other things, this paper considers the main arguments of the advocates of this thesis. Based on the presented less-known facts about the role of this plant in the folklore of the South Slavic peoples, the author concludes that there are no grounds for linking the plant to the cult of Perun, the god of thunder. The motivation for the name “perunika” comes from its dominant feather-like (perasti) leaves, the name “bogiša” (bog, Eng. god) is only one of the narrowly local names (from the vicinity of Dubrovnik).
Simbolične značennja leksemi "tkanina" v konteksti simejnih obrjadiv
The Symbolic Meaning of the Word “Cloth” in the Context of Family Rituals

Authors: Yakovleva Olga
Published: June 2019

The vocabulary meaning of the word “cloth” is compared with its symbolical meaning, which this word acquires in traditional texts. The article analyses the sacral function of a fabric, which is represented in family traditions by different objective symbols, i.e. towel, head scarf, table cloth etc.
Introduction to the Analysis of Gender in the ATU 514 Fairy Tale Type on Examples from the Balkans
Uvod v analizo spola junakinje pravljičnega tipa ATU 514 na primerih iz Balkana

Authors: Pan Maja
Published: June 2019

Not surprisingly, from the aspect of feminist and queer critique, the fairy tale turns out to be a non-moralising yet strongly standardised embodiment of the social and cultural morals themselves. This type of fairy tale acts in favour of the ideological conception that the marriage of man and woman is rightful only because of their sex, but not because they have won each other, i.e. the prize, in the course of the fairy tale’s events. Even more so, the heroine becomes deprived of any agency over her sex and sexuality. We are led to believe that the fairy tale acts restitutively as it resolves the relationship between the protagonist and the princess on two levels: first by sacrificing the protagonist’s sex in favour of “promotion” to the male sex, by which it morally justifies the next move: the re-establishment of the structural male-female couple, thus – another “blessing in disguise” – eliminating the lesbian relationship that was produced this way, to finally remake it into a normative fairy tale as well as a social ideal. Rather than looking for an interpretative key to change the sex fairy-tale type, we approach it genealogically to explain and analyse gender construction from essentialisation, naturalisation and gender performativness.
Estetska struktura in funkcija folklorne molitve z vidika teksta, teksture in konteksta
Aesthetic Structure and Function of Folk Prayers from the Aspect of Text, Texture and Context

Authors: Babič Saša
Published: June 2019

Folk prayers are usually researched in the area of folk beliefs and religiosity. They may also be considered on the folklore-research field as a minor folklore form. We have observed folk prayers from the text, texture and context level to find out the elements of aesthetics.
Anekdote o Lemberžanih in vpliv ljudskega izročila na Butalce Frana Milčinskega
Folk Anecdotes about the Inhabitants of Lemberg and Fran Milčinski’s Butalci

Authors: Šrimpf Katarina
Published: June 2019

This article investigates correlations between Fran Milčinski’s Butalci and humorous Slovenian folk narratives about Lemberg. A small market town, called Lemberg, is famous for being the centre of numerous jokes and humorous stories. Slovenian writer Milčinski’s popular stories about the people of the fictional town of Butale are regarded as a literary work, and have become part of the nation’s narrative repertoire. Nevertheless, as their comparison with the Slovenian and foreign narrative tradition demonstrates, almost all the stories in the book are based on popular, internationally known humorous folk tales about “numskulls”.
William of Malmesbury’s “Fortune” (Gesta Rerum Anglorum II 12) – An Attempt at a New Interpretation
“Fortuna” Williama z Malmesbury (Gesta Rerum Anglorum II 12) – próba nowej interpretacji

Authors: Łuczyński Michał
Published: June 2019

The article constitutes an attempt to interpret one of the newly discovered source texts concerning mediaeval Slavdom, which is William of Malmesbury’s Chronicle of English Kings. The author analyzes a passage devoted to the cult of “Fortune” among the pagan Lutici tribes which is described in a fragment of the chapter ‘De Henrico Imperatore’ devoted to the allies of the empire. The fragment in question concerns the Veleti – the pagan allies of emperor Henry III in the years 1045–1055. On the basis of an analysis of the description of prophesies from the horn of the statue of Fortune, the author tries to justify a hypothesis that the presently missing German source of this fragment (dating back to the middle of the 11th c.) was based on a 15th book ‘Diversarum hereseon liber’ by Filastrius of Brixen, an early mediaeval author of the 4th/5th century, whereas the cult described by William of Malmesbury concerned a female goddess with uranic-pluvial connotations (whose proper name had been substituted in the Roman interpretation by “Fortune”) in one of the cities of the northern Veleti.
Petroglifi iz Jame v bližini Trnovskega studenca nad Ilirsko Bistrico na Snežniški planoti
Petroglyphs from the Cave in the Vicinity of Trnovno Spring above Ilirska Bistrica on the Snežnik Plateau

Authors: Hrobat Virloget Katja
Published: June 2019

The article is an attempt of interpretation of the petroglyphs in Cave in the vicinity of Trnovo spring or Iapods’ cave. The anthropomorphic figure (archer/horseman) and the circles with the crossed lines inside are compared to other cases of rock art. A step forward of the analysis is the comparative study of ritual caves with phallic stalactites in the surroundings and the analysis of its mythical landscape.
Uvod u klasifikaciju verbalne magije i verbalna magija u zapisanoj usmenoj hrvatskoj tradiciji
Introduction to the Classification of Verbal Magic and Verbal Magic in the Recorded Croatian Oral Tradition

Authors: Vukelić Deniver
Published: June 2019

In this paper the main topic are different species of verbal magical shapes in the written Croatian oral tradition. Primarily, there is definition of verbal magic through linguistic, ethnological and historical perspectives, so its different contexts could be cleared. Furthermore, the most frequent forms of the verbal magic are soberly defined – charms, spells and curses, which are later depicted in examples preserved in different historical sources, compilations of Croatian oral tradition, collected from different tellers or in secondary scientific literature.
Odraz interkulturních vztahů v srbské a rumunské frazeologii
Reflection of Intercultural Relations in Serbian and Romanian Phraseology

Authors: Krucká Barbora
Published: June 2019

This research examines the reflection of intercultural relations of Serbian and Romanian speech community members in their phraseology. It also focuses at the auto-stereotypes and hetero-stereotypes present in phraseology. As a shared collective experience imposed in the language, phraseology also entails the summary of judgments about the world of a particular speech community, and thus its relationship to its own culture, as well as to different cultures. Proverbs and phrases from the collections of proverbs form a corpus, which is quantitatively analysed. This results in a view of perception of their own nation and ethnical, national and religious groups members in prolonged contact with Serbian and Romanian speech community.
Pedagoška funkcija legend
Educational Function in Tales with Christian Content

Authors: Novak Petra
Published: June 2019

This article discusses functions of folklore that are evident in Slovenian tales with Christian content. The analysis refers to the collection of 155 written Slovenian legends of St. Peter, collected on the Slovenian ethnic territory. In the collected material, the educational/pedagogical function is emphasised, although it is intertwined with other functions, especially with that of maintaining subordination to accepted patterns of behaviour.
Ein Mühlstein als Abdeckung einer frühmittelalterlichen Grube aus Neunkirchen, Niederösterreich
Žrmlje kot pokrov zgodnjesrednjeveške jame iz Neunkirchna, Niederösterreich

Authors: Haider-Berky Wolfgang
Published: June 2019

/A Quern as a Cover of an Early Mediaeval Pit from Neunkirchen, Lower Austria/On the outskirts of the cremation graves cemetery from Early Imperial period, many pits with pottery and animal bones were found, which could be the remains of funeral rites of that time. A real surprise was the discovery of an early mediaeval pit with pottery and animal bones that were covered with a useless quern. The complex of this pit cannot be linked with the original purpose of the quern stone. As similar examples from Lower Austria, Bohemia and Moravia show, the secondary position of the stone can be explained by Slavic mythology. Carefully made pottery and animal bones can indicate such use.
Koncepcija sezonnogo otmykanija i zamykanija zemli v baltijskoj tradicii
The Concept of Earth’s Opening in Spring and Closing in Autumn

Authors: Laurinkienė Nijolė
Published: June 2019

This article analyses the concept of the Earth’s seasonal opening and closing, which is reconstructed based on Baltic, mainly Lithuanian, and partly Slavonic folklore. It looks at what kind of mythical being was connected to these cyclical regularly occurring processes, and which played a role of an inducer or an executor of these phenomena. It is presumed that it could have been performed by St. George. In the Baltic mythology and folklore, this being is a quite a late substitute for the earlier pagan deities.