Демонічне весілля в народних переказах. Слов’янські паралелі

• Дата: 2012
• Автор: Раденкович, Л.
• Формат: Стаття
• Мова: Ukrainian
• Опубліковано: Iнститут мистецтвознавства, фольклористики та етнології iм. М.Т. Рильського НАН України 2012
• Назва видання: Народна творчість та етнологія
• Теми: Сербський фольклор у загальнослов’янському контексті
• Онлайн доступ: http://dspace.nbuv.gov.ua/handle/123456789/201528
• Назва журналу: Digital Library of Periodicals of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
• Цитувати: Демонічне весілля в народних переказах. Слов’янські паралелі / Л. Раденкович // Народна творчість та етнологія. — 2012. — № 2. — C. 6-10. — Бібліогр.: 35 назв. — укр.

The author analyzes the structure and mythical basis of the popular tradition concerning human participation in the demonic wedding, common to some Slavic folks. About thirty-five variants of such tradition, written down during the last hundred years, have been taken into account. The tradition says that in the night-time a man on the road may be met and taken by a wedding party disappears. It is only then that he becomes aware that he is sitting in a willow tree above water and that the demons intend to drown him. Instead of the wine cup, he is holding a horse’s skull. The tradition reflects elements of the wedding rite. The concluding act of the rite consists of a ritual, which implies offering a cup of wine to the girl’s father who drinks from it and then gives it back to the fellow’s father. In the demonic wedding, however, the demon himself, transformed into the vine cup is assigned with taking a man’s soul out under the water. In the first case, the girl becomes attached to her new family, and in the second one, a man becomes attached to the flock of demons.