Aspecte mitico-simbolice în Legende istorice din Bucovina de S.Fl. Marian
Mythical-symbolic Aspects in Historical Legends from Bucovina by S.Fl. Marian

Summary/Abstract: This study is an essential component of the doctoral research project, called ”Symbolic characters and valences in the popular age in Bukovina”. Together with other folklore groups from the Bukovina area, S. Fl. Marian proposes, in addition to the vast ethnographic bibliography and popular epic texts such as: The historical legends or the fantastic popular epic. In this article, we want to identify, at the level of historical legends, a number of elements specific to popular literature such as: different types of mythological and legendary characters; symbolic values of the mythical and magical universe and marks of popular epic discourse. The 29 historical legends bring to the fore a diversity of both thematic and structural. From this perspective, the legends collected by S. Fl. Marian arouses, in particular, their fantastic characteristic, surpassing, in many texts, the normal pattern of historical legends. It is essential to ask ourselves and to sketch, what is the role of the predominant appearance of fantasy creature, monster and how these characters are represented in space mythical-magical.

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