TY - JOUR AU - Navrátilová, Alexandra PY - 2005/10/17 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Revenantství v české lidové tradici jako obraz cizího, nepřátelského světaRevenantism in the Czech Folk Culture as Reflection of an Alien World JF - Studia mythologica Slavica JA - Studia VL - 8 IS - 0 SE - SEMIOTIČNE INTERPRETACIJE LJUDSKEGA IZROČILA / SEMIOTIC INTERPRETATIONS OF LANGUAGE AND TRADITION DO - 10.3986/sms.v8i0.1750 UR - https://ojs.zrc-sazu.si/sms/article/view/1750 SP - 115-136 AB - <span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;" lang="EN-US">The article deals with dead persons believed to have come back as ghosts in the territory of Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia. On the basis of literary sources that originated not only in the 19th and 20th centuries, but also in older times, it treats the revenantism as reflected in the imaginations, customs and folklore. It shows the bases from which this phenomenon was growing and the ways in which it expressed various features of the folk life, its mentality, view of the world, morality and ethics. The souls of the so called impure departed persons whose death was instant or violent, or who outran the laws of proper life in some way, came back to earth in the form of eerie ghosts and demons. This faith became a significant part of the folk demonology embedded in the fatefully conceived conflictful relation between the living and the dead persons.</span> ER -