„ПРОКЛЕТ БИО НА ОБА СВИЈЕТА“: ФУНКЦИОНАЛНО И СЕМАНТИЧКО РАСЛОЈАВАЊЕ КЛЕТВИ У УСМЕНОЈ ЕПИЦИ
“BE CURSED ON BOTH WORLDS”: THE FUNCTIONAL AND SEMANTIC STRATIFICATION OF CURSES IN THE ORAL EPICS

Summary/Abstract: This paper offers an analysis of curses which come to being within the text of the epic songs. This specific form of cursing is particularly pointed in the curses by mother’s milk. Both in tradition and in the epics, these curses are equal to taboo, which means that nobody dares not obeying them: such is the deep belief in their efficiency. Because in the epics there is no discrimination about who can or cannot make a curse (everybody can: narrator/singer, heroes and their foes, messengers, mothers, wives, godmothers, sisters, brothers, fairies, forests etc.), focusing on the four systemic types of curse is necessary for the sake of congruence.

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