Slovak mythological vocabulary on the Common Slavic background: Ethno-linguistic aspect (original) (raw)

2019, New researches on the religion and mythology of the Pagan Slavs

In the all-Slavic ethnolinguistic studies, the Slovak tradition is still not sufficiently covered, first of all, the mythological vocabulary has not been compiled and analyzed in various aspects. This article, based on the earlier work of 2013, is an attempt to analyze Slovak demonological vocabulary among and against the background of other Slavic vocabularies: to determine the amount of common Slavic mythonyms in it (for example, čarovnica, divá žena); to examine its correspondence with other West Slavic (Moravian, Czech and Polish) terminological systems (the terms rarášek, škriatok, permoník); to analyze the Slovak-East Slavic (rusalka) and Slovak-South Slavic (víla, moria noha) parallels; to reveal the own Slovak vocabulary of demons (such as futkač, molek, grgalica etc.). Particular attention is paid to the analysis of the Carpathian features in Slovak demonological beliefs (beliefs about the «double-souled» men, flying dragons) and their vocabulary (striga, bosorka, šarkan, etc.).