The Bogomil apostasy and traditional values in the folklore
The Bogomil apostasy and traditional values in the folklore

Summary/Abstract: The influence of some aspects of Bogomil ideology in the folklore was first of all carried out by the apocryphal literature which, with its expression and emotional impulse, showed remarkable similarity with folklore works. The receptivity of Bogomil elements in folk literature was chronologically and practically accomplished through a long and complex process determined by a number of factors such as: traditional, socio-economic and cultural, which at the same time impose the typology of this kind of folklore. In that respect, the folklore with Bogomil character is classified according to the following principle: folklore heritage with dualistic character, cosmogonical folk literature, folk tales in which Bogomil dogmatism is interpreted from a folklore aspect and a cycle of folk literature about Adam and Eve. The importance of this kind of folklore is in the fact that the existing conglomerate of ideas is interactively put to work, presenting it in an authentic way and in accordance with the mentality, the socio-political and social conditions.

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