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Oral Narrative in the Western Balkans Oral Narrative in the Western Balkans
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Supernatural Legends Supernatural Legends
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Supernatural Legends in the Western Balkans Supernatural Legends in the Western Balkans
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Locality, Localization, Migration, and Mapping Locality, Localization, Migration, and Mapping
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Mapping Monsters Mapping Monsters
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Memorates, Fabulates, and Legends Memorates, Fabulates, and Legends
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Novelty, Surprise, and the Subversion of Expectations Novelty, Surprise, and the Subversion of Expectations
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Filling in the Gaps Filling in the Gaps
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Works Cited Works Cited
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Supernatural Legends in the Western Balkans
Get accessVisiting Assistant Professor, Folklore and Ethnomusicology, Indiana University
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Published:20 November 2023
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Abstract
This chapter presents a general overview of Slavic supernatural legends in the Western Balkans. Data from current and archival research are used to provide contemporary insights into some long-standing theoretical questions regarding the genre, as well as to suggest avenues for future enquiry. Discussion includes the thought-world of legends, their functional deployment in social spheres, principles that govern the limits of their diffusion, problems of their analytical systematization and categorization (particularly into the subcategories of memorates and fabulates), and elements of subversion used in their telling. In conclusion, the chapter argues that renewed collection projects and theoretical advances in legend research could benefit from a return to producing what the chapter terms “survey studies”—comprehensive and thorough overviews of a singular supernatural being in a specific region based on systematic collation of extant data and synchronic and diachronic mapping of that being’s motifs.
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