Specifi city of the Mythological Representations of the Middle Slovakia

Abstract

The linguistic specifi city of the Middle Slovakia, due to the presence of South Slavic dialectic elements, sometimes interpreted as preservation of archaic features, despite of a conciderable amount of research, has not yet received an unambiguous ethnolinguistic explanation. In continuation of this theme and from the perspective of the Carpathian and Balkan Slavic migrations, the article considers one ideographic group of vocabulary and related concepts of the Middle Slovakia — a group of mythological characters. Particular attention is paid to the identifi cation of lexical, typological, folklore parallels between the chosen areal and other Slavic traditions, as well as parallels in the plot and motive inventory of the Slavic mythological concepts that belong to one of the most ancient and quite stable areas of the people’s worldview and folk culture.