The specifics of Croatian folk mythology

Occupation: chief researcher
Affiliation: Institute of Slavic Studies of Russian Academy of Sciences
Address: Russia, Moscow, 119334, Russia, Moscow, Leninsky prospect, 32A

Journal name

Slavianovedenie

Edition

Issue 6

Pages

24-37

Abstract

The article is devoted to the areal distribution of Croatian mythological characters, taking into account the general picture of folk mythology in the space of Southern Slavia. The author regards demonological images specific to the Adriatic, southern and northern parts of Croatia (including the Istrian peninsula), northwestern Croatia (often representing a single whole with the neighboring Slovenian area), Slavonia and Croats living in the environment of a foreign-cultural and foreign-speaking majority (Drava’s Croats in Hungary and Burgenland’s Croats in Austria and Hungary). The need to analyze character types considering the neighboring South Slavic regions (Bosnian, Serbian, Slovenian) is caused by the common system of distribution of cultural dialects and the corresponding terminology of folk culture in the whole South Slavic territory. As far as the geolinguistic study of folk mythology is concerned, and more broadly – cultural dialects, the ethnolinguist’s attention naturally falls on borrowings in the names of demonological characters: Italian, German, Hungarian, etc.

Keywords

ethnolinguistics, arealogy, cultural dialects, folk mythology, borrowings, archaic features, Croatia, Adriatic coast, Istria

Acknowledgment

The author's work was carried out with the funding of the RFBR (project No. 20-012-00300).

Received

10.12.2021

Publication date

13.12.2021

Number of characters

30522

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GOST	Plotnikova A. The specifics of Croatian folk mythology // Slavianovedenie – 2021. – Issue 6 C. 24-37 [Electronic resource]. URL: https://slav.jes.su/S0869544X0017673-3-1 (circulation date: 27.04.2024). DOI: 10.31857/S0869544X0017673-3
MLA	Plotnikova, Anna "The specifics of Croatian folk mythology." Slavianovedenie 6 (2021):24-37. DOI: 10.31857/S0869544X0017673-3
APA	Plotnikova A. (2021). The specifics of Croatian folk mythology. Slavianovedenie (6), pp.24-37 DOI: 10.31857/S0869544X0017673-3

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