Démonologické pověsti ze severní části Královského hvozdu/Waldhwozdu

• Authors: Marta Ulrychová

Title variants

EN

DEMONOLOGICAL LEGENDS FROM THE NORTHERN PART OF KRÁLOVSKÝ HVOZD (ROYAL FOREST)/WALDHWOZD

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The author devotes herself to the legends from Královský hvozd, an area situated in the northernmost part of the Bohemian Forest. In the 1920s, the legends were published by Gustav Jungbauer and Hans Watzlik – the Germanwriting authors from Bohemia. In her geographic definition of the area, the author is referring to the Josef Blau publication titled Geschichte der künnischen Freibauern im Böhmerwalde from 1934. Her typology of legends is based on the catalogue of demonological legends, which is a part of the thesis defended by Jan Luffer at Department of Ethnology, Faculty of Arts of Charles University, in 2011. The principal part of the study is divided into six groups defined by Luffer. The author tries to compare the collected materials with the particular types that are signed with a title and a three-digit code in the catalogue. She applies the same way when analyzing Stilzel der Kobold des Böhmerwaldes by Watzlik. She is reaching a view that the most types, defined by Luffer, are represented in the legends from Královský hvozd. The legends from this part of the Bohemian Forest relate to rural culture. They express the value system of descendants from the then Bavarian settlers. Plentifully represented are the motifs related to deep forests (poaching, casting of magic balls, and meeting with a danger creature, storms, and natural disasters) and provincial border between Bohemia and Bavaria.

Keywords

EN

DEMONOLOGICAL LEGENDS; GERMAN LEGENDS; CATALOGUING OF LEGENDS; GERMANS IN BOHEMIA; BOHEMIAN FOREST; KRÁLOVSKÝ HVOZD

Discipline

• ETHNOLOGY: ETHNOLOGY

• Publisher: The National Institute of Folk Culture
• Journal: Národopisná revue (Journal of Ethnology)
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 22
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 246 – 258

Contributors

author

Marta Ulrychová

• Katedra sociální a kulturní antropologie Fakulty humanitních studií Západočeské univerzity, Tylova 18, 301 25 Plzeň, Czech Republic