TY - JOUR AU - Vinogradova, Ľudmila N. PY - 2022/10/28 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Folk Demonology of Polesye in the Context of East-Slavic Traditional Beliefs: Part 2. Non-localised characters; people with demonic properties JF - Studia mythologica Slavica JA - Studia VL - 25 IS - SE - RAZPRAVE / ARTICLES DO - 10.3986/SMS20222506 UR - https://ojs.zrc-sazu.si/sms/article/view/11176 SP - AB - <p>The article studies folk demonological beliefs in the territory of Polesye, a region located on the border of Ukraine, Belarus and Russia. The region’s traditional culture is of great interest to ethnologists and linguists of the broadest profiles since it retains many archaic elements of common-Slavic significance. In the first part of our research, two blocks of mythological beliefs were considered: the spirits of domestic and natural loci, and the demons-deceased returning from the other world. (The first part of the article is published in Studia Mythologica Slavica 24 (2021).)<br>The second part of the work analyses beliefs about characters belonging to the two other mythological blocks: a group of certain non-localised spirits (devil, personification of a whirlwind, personification of Death, spirits of diseases, intimidation characters) and different categories of living people endowed with super-knowledge (witches, sorcerers, healers, werewolves, people of narrow professional occupations). The research was carried out taking data about the East Slavic mythological system into account.</p> ER -