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Miks haavalehed varisevad? Puudega seotud etioloogiliste tekstide peajooni

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Kuperjanov A.

Mäetagused

2019

vol. 75

77-98

The aim of this article is to provide an overview of tree-related aetiological legends, the main motifs of these tales, and the characters occurring in them on the basis of digitised materials. The article presents motifs related to the most popular characters in the tales, followed by the frequent motifs and sub-motifs by different species of trees. Since Estonian materials are relatively difficult to acquire and have not been translated into other languages, this article tries to introduce as many sample texts as possible. Where possible, story types have been pointed out by making use of Antti Aarne’s catalogue (1918) and the academic fairy tale anthology compiled by Vaina Mälk, Ingrid Sarv, and Richard Viidalepp (1967). There are over 21,000 texts in the material digitised by the Department of Folkloristics of the Estonian Literary Museum, which are directly related to trees, and in addition to this, trees have been mentioned in other texts in nearly 400 different aspects. The most important of these are predominantly concerned with folk medicine, calendar traditions, folk astronomy, harvest predictions (predicting cattle growth and crops) and day-to-day household use. Many narratives about hidden treasures are also related to trees. Tree aetiologies (more than 100 texts) represent a specific group that shares common features with other types of lore and the Christian tradition, but these common occurrences also need to be specified. Unfortunately, these stories were collected relatively late, in the last decades of the 19th century, and the interpretation of these stories was delayed due to other research projects that were deemed more interesting. The fact that tree-related stories, for example, are closely connected with Christian legends, apocryphal manuscripts, and other explanatory Christian folk stories, may have also been a hindering factor. For centuries, aetiological legends spread as vernacular Christianity, serving as an interesting symbiosis of Christian scripture and verbal lore, and for this reason these texts remained on the fringe of 20th-century folklore studies. It is this type of lore that centres around intercultural and transcultural processes and interaction. The predominance of aspen-related lore in all story motifs (trembling leaves) and activities stands out in the material. Aetiological legends follow a pattern whereby there is one dominating motif in these legends and very few or single records of other motifs. The most prominent character is Jesus, but Mary, Judas, Elijah, the Devil or Old Heathen, and God or Grandfather are also mentioned.

Osika w ludowym językowym obrazie świata

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Marczewska M.

Etnolingwistyka. Problemy Języka i Kultury

1995

vol. 7

97–115

Celem artykułu jest odtworzenie (utrwalonego w języku i kulturze) obrazu drzewa, które w tradycji ludowej jest niezwykle silnie obciążone ładunkiem „niesamowitości”, mianowicie – osiki. Obraz osiki utrwalony w języku i kulturze ludowej jest konsekwencją pewnego nadrzędnego przyporządkowania tego drzewa do drzew złych (jedyne drzewo, które się trzęsie), powiązanych z diabłem, istotami o medialnej naturze i wszelkimi szkodliwymi mocami (magią). Podporządkowanie takie zostało utrwalone (częściowo) w nazwach tego drzewa zróżnicowanych terytorialnie. Układ kategorii i ich wypełnienie określoną treścią świadczy o tym, że obraz osiki jest rezultatem swoiście interpretowanych zjawisk otaczającego świata i oddaje punkt widzenia człowieka stykającego się z przyrodą i zastanawiającego się nad wszystkim, co w przyrodzie nieoczekiwane, tajemnicze i nie do końca objaśnione.

The aim of the article is to recreate the image of the tree (rooted in language and culture), which has a strong charge of 'incredibility' in the folk tradition, namely, the image of the aspen. The view of the aspen perpetuated in folk language and culture is the consequence of a certain superordinate assignment of this tree to the category of evil trees (the only tree that trembles), related to the devil, creatures of a mediatory nature, and all kinds of evil forces (magic). Such a perception has been (partly) perpetuated in the diverse names of this tree that depend on the region a given name can be found. The arrangement of the categories and their particular content shows that the view of the aspen is the result of the phenomena of the outside world that are interpreted in a peculiar way, and also reflects the vantage point of a human being that comes in contact with nature and wonders about everything in nature that is unexpectable, mysterious, and not full explained.

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1 Etnolingwistyka. Problemy Języka i Kultury

1 Mäetagused

1 2019

1 1995

1 Kuperjanov A.

1 Marczewska M.

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Miks haavalehed varisevad? Puudega seotud etioloogiliste tekstide peajooni

Osika w ludowym językowym obrazie świata