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  • The snooty Baba in the landscape of Karst, Slovenia : about a Slavic ambivalent female mythical figure
    Hrobat Virloget, Katja
    This article about stone Babas (hags) arises from the Karst folklore which has its origins in Slovenia. The stone Babas are linked to a grotesque children's folklore of kissing the stone, snooty Baba ... on the first visit to a town, piece of land or forest. Stone Babas are included in certain yearly rituals. Traditions about the Baba are present throughout the Slavic world where kissing the old woman and forecasting the weather according to hills named after her can be compared to other European traditions like harvest rituals. In pre-Christian beliefs of some Karst villages, duality of female mythical characters is noted and corresponds to the ambivalence of traditions and the meaning of Baba. The duality of young and fertile as opposed to old and destructive can be interpreted as different rites of passage of a woman that could correspond to the dualism of winter and summer. In children's folklore about Baba, we can find a reminiscence of a female mythical creature in the form of a hag connected to initiation upon first entrance to a specific area, which was used as a powerful element of social control of children
    Vir: Cosmos : the yearbook of the Traditional Cosmology Society. - ISSN 0269-8773 (29, 2013, str. 141-171)
    Vrsta gradiva - članek, sestavni del ; neleposlovje za odrasle
    Leto - 2013
    Jezik - angleški
    COBISS.SI-ID - 1536014020

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