This book ('I was wandering in circles the whole night long. The symbolism of circular movement in European traditional culture') researches the common symbolism of the circular movement in European ...tradition and culture through the ethnographical, historical and linguistic sources from different regions of Europe and from different historical periods. The circular movement is identifyed as the movement which is in traditional world view and understanding of the space caracteristic for the movements between this world and the other. At the same time it enables the communication between the worlds and transmition from one to the other.
Focusing on Slovenian mythology the book contains a review of Slovenian mythological, historical, and narrative material. Over 150 supernatural beings are presented, both lexically and according to ...the role that they have in Slovenian folklore. They are classified by type, characteristic, features, and by the message conveyed in their motifs and contents. The material has been analysed in the context of European and some non-European mythological concepts, and the author deals with theory and interpretations as well as the conclusions of domestic and foreign researchers. The book forms new starting points and a classification of supernatural beings within a frame of a number of sources, some of which have been published for the first time in this book.
The book 'In the moonlight glow. Outlines of mythic characters in the villages of Lokev and Prelože in the context of Slavic mythology' is a rarity on the European scale in the field of pre-Christian ...beliefs. What makes it so valuable is that it is a first-hand record of these beliefs, as they were told to the author by people close to him, grandmothers, grandfathers and villagers, who preserved their old-faith beliefs and rituals until the last century. The book is therefore an inexhaustible source of old- faith practices, beliefs, sacred places and other folklore traditions in the villages Lokev, Prelože and their immediate neighborhood. As such, it is one of the main sources of study in Slavic mythology, as well as in general and monument to the integration of karst-nature and its people.
Avtorica razstave Jana Okorn je v vitrinah in na panojih predstavila zgodbe o ljubljanskem zmaju, aleluji, dogodkih na Brodu in izročilo o pirniškem gradu ter razstavila številne publikacije, ki nam ...prinašajo kamenčke v mozaiku slovenskega ljudskega slovstva. Vse razstavljeno gradivo hrani Slovanska knjižnica.
Zgodba o velikanu je izšla v knjigi Najlepše slovenske pravljice = Lučšie skazki slovenii. Napisala Dušica Kunaver ; prevod v ruski jezik Maryna Bilash ; ilustrator Igor Ribič, Ljubljana, ...Linguarus, 2013. Publikacijo hrani Slovanska knjižnica v Ljubljani.