Балканските представи за женските свръхестествени същества – красиви или грозни?
Balkan notions of female supernatural beings – beautiful or ugly?

Author(s): Maya Aleksandrova
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Факултет по славянски филологии, Софийски университет »Св. Кл. Охридски«
Keywords: mythology
Summary/Abstract: This paper focuses on supernatural female creatures in the mythologies on the Balkans. It provides an analysis based on their names, descriptions and portrayal in images. Many interesting similarities are found, but there are also differences when compared to their counterparts in ancient Rome, and in Slavic and German mythologies. Female mythological creatures are related to nature and its elements and the cult to the Great Goddess. On the Balkans they are mostly portrayed as beautiful, while in Ancient Rome and in northern Europe they are perceived as ugly and repulsive.

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