Texts Belonging to the Folk Culture and Having Interpretative Function (Motivation of Ritual Behaviour, Construction on Fortunetelling and Dreams, Mythological Explanation of Meaningful Events) Cover Image
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Текстове на народната култура с интерпретираща функция (Мотивировки на ритуално поведение, тълкувания на гадания и сънища, митологична трактовка на знакови събития)
Texts Belonging to the Folk Culture and Having Interpretative Function (Motivation of Ritual Behaviour, Construction on Fortunetelling and Dreams, Mythological Explanation of Meaningful Events)

Author(s): Ludmila Vinogradova
Subject(s): Anthropology, Social Sciences, Customs / Folklore, Theology and Religion, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Culture and social structure , Philology
Published by: Институт за етнология и фолклористика с Етнографски музей при БАН
Keywords: traditional culture; motivations of actions; symbolic of dreams and fortunetelling; spelling out encoded signs

Summary/Abstract: The article dwells upon some less-studied texts of the Slavic folk culture which have a common interpretative function: to explain the aim of the magical rites or the necessity to follow restrictions; to spell out the meaning of the prognostic signs encoded; to give a mythological explanation to the events happening in the world.

  • Issue Year: XLII/2016
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 446-461
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Bulgarian