Run away illness where a rooster does not sing: No-life and nothingness in our folk fables
In fables, verbal messages meant for curing, illness is never sent into underworld, nor is it wished for its death. After the analysis, the author concludes the reason for this attitude is in the understanding of the underworld: according to this view, the deceased inhabit the underworld hence sendi...
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| Language: | English |
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Institute of Ethnography, SASA, Belgrade
2008-01-01
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| Series: | Glasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU |
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| Online Access: | http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0350-0861/2008/0350-08610801227D.pdf |