Běloruské pověsti a legendy o skvrnách na Měsíci

• Authors: Avilin Cimafej

Title variants

EN

Belorussian legends about Moon spots

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

This article is focused on research of interaction and interpenetration of Christian and archaic mythologies and revealing of beliefs’ traits of another folks in the etiological legends concerning Moon spots. To solve this problem the following issues are considered to systematization and classification of the complex of etiological legends concerning Moon spots; detection of archaic origins and Christian elements presented in the Moon spots legends; comparative analysis of Belarusian Moon spots legends with such legends of other folks to show genesis and relations of some legends. We used for analysis this sources: ethnographic material from the 19th and 20th century, digital Polesie archive, “field”-materials collected by the author and another researchers in 2005–2008. As a result we show that some Moon spots legends could migrate to Belorussia region from Poland, Russia and Lithuania. Also archaic origins in the legends were revealed.

Keywords

EN

Belorussian folklore; Slavonic folklore; folk legend; Moon; Moon spots; fratricide

Discipline

• ETHNOLOGY: ETHNOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Český lid: etnologický časopis (Český lid: Ethnological journal)
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 98
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 173-190
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Avilin Cimafej

• Český lid, redakce, Etnologický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i., Na Florenci 3, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic

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Jaroslav Otčenášek

• Český lid, redakce, Etnologický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i., Na Florenci 3, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic