Митска бића у веровањима Срба у Мађарској
Mythical creatures in the beliefs of Serbs in Hungary

Author(s): Đuro Franković
Subject(s): Anthropology
Published by: Етнографски институт САНУ
Keywords: ethnography of Serbs in Hungary; oral folklore; mythical creatures; ethnographic work of Đura Franković
Summary/Abstract: Đuro Franković (Fok na Drava, 1945, in Hungarian editions: Frankovics György) was among the first to begin recording the oral traditions, beliefs and customs of the South Slavs, as Serbs, Croats and Slovenes were officially collectively referred to in Hungary during the socialist period, while still a student in Pécs, in the late 1960s. As a journalist for the Serbian-Croatian broadcast of Hungarian Radio, i.e. Hungarian Television, and an associate of the Croatian-Serbian Department at the Pécs Teachers College, he tirelessly toured Croatian and Serbian villages for decades and, while carrying out his journalistic duties, collected a vast amount of ethnological material. In addition to the ethnographic material from Croatian settlements in Podravina, the material he collected from the remaining Serbs in the Hungarian part of Baranja, as well as in Serbian places in Pomorie and the surroundings of Budapest, is also significant. He devoted special attention to the issue of mythical creatures and folk beliefs, as a very archaic layer in folklore and a theoretically very interesting area.

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