ВAМПИРИТЕ И НИВНИТЕ МЕТАФОРИ ВО БАЛКАНСКИТЕ ПРОСТОРИ
VAMPIRISM AND ITS METAPHORES IN THE BALKAN AREAS

Summary/Abstract: The work is dedicated to the motive of vampire and its most different metaphorical interpretations relating to the contemporary perceptions on the Balkan areas. The distinctions regarding its appearance, character and possible physical forms are selected out as a specific entirety. I drew special attention to the mythological and demonological presentation and representation of the vampire thus being in relation to the interpretation of its primary negative metaphorical meaning. The importance of the occurrence of the vampire in the oral folk beliefs has been considered which as for the antiquity and the number implicates the conclusion on its origin from the Balkan topos. Those are considered comparatively with its transposition in the contemporary literary forms. In addition, different forms are marked in the presentation of the collective and individual notional interpretation for example becoming a vampire as a consequence of sinful life, metempsychosis (transmigration of souls), the motive of the deceased beloved person, the motive of reincarnation, the motive of vampirism as social evil and etc. All those forms are related to the foreign and national presentations of the Balkan areal.

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