TRANS KOD VLAHA U JUŽNOJ I JUGOISTOČNOJ ALBANIJI I KOD VLAHA U HOMOLJU – KOMPARATIVNA ANALIZA
Trance in the Culture of Vlachs in Southern and Southeast Albania and in Vlachs From Homolje (Serbia) – Comparative Analysis

Summary/Abstract: The phenomenon of trance, a state of consciousness that is very similar in its manifestations to death, has always fascinated man, stimulating his curiosity. Science has not yet found a way out of this mystical, intriguing and intricate labyrinth of the human psyche, a phenomenon that takes place within the human invisible being. It is about various manifestations of the human soul, which for Jung is “the most opaque and inaccessible creation that scientific thought has ever dealt with”. The aim of this paper is to notice similarities or differences in symptoms, manifestations and function of the phenomenon of mystical trance in Vlachs in southern and southeastern Albania and in the Vlachs from Homolje (Serbia), using the method of comparative and content analysis of the material collected in the field research, as well as information obtained from the narrator and available in ethnographic and other materials. During the analysis of the material, in the symptoms and manifestation of trance in both ethnic groups of Vlachs, certain elements were noticed that indicate the existence of specific archaic features such as ritual death, resurrection of neophytes, existence and mediation of the auxiliary spirits.

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