Title Vaikų mitinės baimės lietuvių folkloro praktikose /
Translation of Title Children's mythical fears in Lithuanian folklore practices.
Authors Džekčioriūtė-Medeišienė, Vita
DOI 10.15388/vu.thesis.398
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Keywords [eng] fear ; children ; mythology ; folklore ; practice
Abstract [eng] Mythical fears are fears that have mythical shapes of expression and mythological explanation. They can be related to real threats but are not limited to them. Children's mythical fears are a multifaceted phenomenon that encompasses children's psychophysical and social development, mythical thinking and the expression of emotions in culture. Children’s mythical fears in this dissertation are analysed from the perspective of folklore practices - various actions related to folklore. The aim of the dissertation is to research how children's mythical fears manifested themselves and were experienced in Lithuanian folklore practices at the end of the 19th century and the first part of the 20th century. This research employs various folklore and ethnographic materials that include child raising and ethnomedicine, beliefs that reflect mythical thinking and relate to the notion of the child and fears, and other folklore texts from the end of the 19th century to the first part of the 20th century (frightening expressions used for children, folk-belief legends and tales). Special attention is paid to the circumstances of text presentation and folklore practices related to them. Children's mythical fears in Lithuanian folklore practices analysed in this dissertation manifest themselves in two aspects: the educational and the experiential. Discussed folklore practices show in what ways and how adults used them as a social-psychological means of shaping children's understanding of the world. The contextual materials of researched folklore practices reveal in detail how children experienced fear.
Dissertation Institution Vilniaus universitetas.
Type Doctoral thesis
Language Lithuanian
Publication date 2022