OTÁZKA PERCEPCIE ÈASU A PRIESTORU U SENZIBILOV
THE ISSUE OF PERCEPTION OF TIME AND SPACE BY SENSIBILS

Summary/Abstract: The author has focused chiefly on the issues of perception of time and space by "sensibils". He has compared their opinion to the Medieval ideas about time and space. For the sake more detailed understanding of this nowadays quite widespread category of people one part of the paper is focused not only on analysing the meaning of the term "sensibils", but also on their clasification according to the character and way of obtaining their unusual abilities. Simultaneous, the author presents some ethnographic data on the "semi-daemonic" creatures (a soothsayer, a shaman, a wizard, a witch) known in the folk belief, as a grounds for basic comparison. The comparison may point to a significant congruence as well as certain continuity of ideas about activity of these creatures preserved in the folk tradition of Slovakia on the one hand, and current ideas about abilities of "sensibils" on the other.

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