VOL. 53, BOOK 1, PART С, 2015, pp. 169 – 182 Full text (Hr)
Author: Lidija Bajuk
Affiliation: Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research in Zagreb
Abstract
Croatian oral literature speaks about the first language of the living and non-living world at a particular time of a day and a year perhaps in connection with the languages of the population that lives on today’s Croatian territory inhabited by Croats before settling. From these indigenous peoples, the Indo-European settlers inherited oral literary mythical motifs, such as the world, healing herbs, golden branches, wonderful fruits, hermaphrodite fishes, hairy snakes, winged dragons, wryneck birds, ritual tripod, transition passage, paradisiac transcendence etc., as well as originating wind, special whistles, magic words, shamanic invocations and fairy chants echoing the pre-antiqued, idealized and self-explanatory image of the world.
Key words: first language, special herbs, special animals, ritual and customary processions, shamanic invocations, fairies
