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Oral Legends about Buried Treasures

Summary/Abstract: Oral legends about buried treasure are unusually rich and varied, and almost always have both a miraculous and a real dimension. The article demonstrates that this subject may be still interesting today. Texts from published and unpublished manuscripts of oral prose are analyzed. There are examples of texts in which the motif is the buried but never found treasure, and others in which the motif is the discovered treasure that nearly always brings bad luck to its discoverers. Further examples are mentioned in which besides the old narrative layer where the beginning of a story is linked to transmission through tradition, the incentive to make up a story can be a real or legendary historical person, today even a news-paper article.

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