The Ethnology Notebooks, 2018, № 5 (143), 1326
DOI https://doi.org/10.15407/nz2018.05.1326
Received 19.07.2018
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4957-1619
Kanapljanikov Dmytro, a bread-winner is on the century of historical sciences
department of the modern ethnology
of the Institute of Ethnology
of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Svobody Avenue 15, 79000, Lviv, Ukraine.
Contacts: zvyczaj@gmail.com
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Abstrakt. Belarusian traditional Personhood by studies the Belarusian myths and rituals, the stories and thoughts about fairies — «Vanishing People», «invisible peoples» — are researched. Belarusian myths and rituals about «invisible people», both with Western European myths about elves and fairies, create a European area of representations about «invisible people». The feature of the eastern part of this area, which includes the Belarusians, is the presence of rituals and priests of this cult. According to the stories about these beings, they have a human entities, support to each other, as well as with people, economic and social ties. The person, by traditional Belarusians worldview, is social minded entity, and may have supernatural and metamorphosis property.
Keywords: Vanishing People, elf, fairy, Personhood, Person, European mythology, Belarusian mythology, deities of local, European paganism.
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