Prostorni aspekti demonoloških predanja iz Istočne Srbije (prvi deo): teorijsko-metodološke postavke i primeri
Spatial Aspects of Demonological Legends from Eastern Serbia (part one): theoretical and methodological assumptions and examples

Summary/Abstract: The article represents a specific contribution to expanding knowledge in the sphere of demonological legends in Serbian ethnology and anthropology. The introductory part presents a short research history of various domestic authors in the sphere of demonology, as well as our interpretation of the spatial aspect of belief in demons and other supernatural creatures of non-human origin. The second part of the research contains examples of other researchers who noted various beliefs in demonic creatures.An addition to this section is ethnographic material collected in the course of conducting fieldwork research in the broader area of Knjazevac in Eastern Serbia,starting from the summer of 2014. We processed mostly demonic aspects of nature, i.e. demons of non-human origin. Therefore, the spatial aspect of belief in the other world, whose domains have not been studied so far, is significant through locating and describing precisely those liminal areas, which have characteristics of both this and the other world.

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