КРИВОТВОРEЊE ФОЛКЛОРA И МИТОЛОГИЈE
FORGERIES IN FOLKLORE AND MYTHOLOGY - SOME SLAVIC EXAMPLES

Summary/Abstract: Some writers — believing that the Slavs during time lost their early written monuments and myths on the basis of which they could be represented as the nations with ancient culture — engaged in specific forms of inventing or forging their history, mythology and folklore. In these invented works, the Slavic nations are represented in an idealized way: as the inheritors of the Old Indian, Greek or Old Italic culture, as the oldest nation in the Balkans with its own writing system even before Christianization, as a nation which in its oral tradition preserved ancient epics. Almost all Slavic and Balkan nations have writers who in their works claim that precisely their nation is the oldest one. Their theories about the ancient origin of their nation are usually based on the long-discarded concepts or on some inventions. Today, forging of ancient history, mythology and folklore has reached enormous proportions and that is a problem which cannot be reviewed in one article. This „myth-creation” got a special impetus after the collapse of socialism in the Slavic and other countries and after a fast impoverishment of some layers of the population.

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