Některé shodné motivy městských legend v Bulharsku a v České republice

• Authors: Kokudeva Rosina

Title variants

EN

Some identical motifs of urban legends in Bulgaria and the Czech Republic

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The presented article identifies and compares several shared motifs of urban legends in Bulgaria and the Czech Republic. The legends are classified into following thematic groups: 1) mysterious narratives and encounters with preternatural creatures, which are neither helpful nor harmful; 2) mysterious signs and encounters with preternatural creatures which cause death or other harm to the participants of the story; 3) mysterious signs and encounters with preternatural creatures which help people; 4) summoning and invoking of ghosts; 5) criminal stories — murders and assaults causing bodily harm with or without motive; 6) scary stories — parodies. Analyzed parallels between particular narratives documented in Bulgaria and the Czech Republic confirm shared folkloric substratum which points out to both their universality and international distribution.

Keywords

EN

urban legend; contemporary legend; folklore; Bulgaria; Czech Republic

Discipline

• ETHNOLOGY: ETHNOLOGY

• Publisher: Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts, Czech Republic
• Journal: Studia Ethnologica Pragensia
• Year: 2020
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 94-101

Contributors

author

Kokudeva Rosina

• Ústav pro etnologii a folkloristiku Bulharské akademie věd