the article attempts to reconstruct the image of a witch based on the interrogation records of those accused of witchcraft during the Salem trial (Massachusetts, North America, 1692) and related materials. The subject of research is the phenomenon of prosecution on those accused of witchcraft. The source base are the records of the Salem process, transcribed and published in 1977, as well as a number of documentary testimonies of witnesses, speaking from a puritanical viewpoint. The article examines the features of the mythological worldview of traditional society, dictated by the belief in su...
the study is devoted to analyzing the reports of childhood experiences with the supernatural. The source base is formed from the results of Internet survey conducted by the author. The author carried out a typologization of the sample from the survey data and proposed an interpretation that correlates the survey responds both with traditional folklore imagery and the psychological reasons underlying the event described by the respondent. The author comes to the conclusion that a kind of hypertext in the picture of such cases represented by the respondents is formed, which includes both referen...
в статье анализируется выборка сообщений о проявлениях образа лешего, полученных в результате проведенного автором интернет-опроса. Автор приходит к выводам о сохранности образа лешего в городской традиции, выявляет сюжетные параллели приведенных респондентами описаний с традиционными фольклорными сюжетами, показывает нетипичные для фольклорной традиции элементы современных рассказов о проявлениях образа лешего. Результаты исследования могут иметь важное значение для рассмотрения современной динамики фольклорных сюжетов в городской среде.
