МОТИВИ ОТРУЄННЯ, ПРОКЛЯТТЯ, ЖЕРТВУВАННЯ У НАРОДНІЙ БАЛАДІ ПІВДЕННИХ СЛОВ’ЯН

Abstract

The proposed article analyzes the important motives presented in the folk ballads of the southern Slavs – the motive of poisoning, the motive of sacrificial sacrifice, the motive of the curse and their functional load. The introductory part discusses the importance of appealing to these motives for understanding the genre of the national ballad in general and the specifics of its existence in the Southern Slavic territories, in particular. The subject of research is Serbian, Croatian, Macedonian, Bulgarian, Bosnian folk ballads – all texts with similar motives and meaningful content. There are motives of poisoning, in particular, the poisoning of a woman by the husband’s persuasion of a lover, the poisoning of the bride’s son by his mother, the motive of sacral sacrifice in a whole group of works – about the sacrifice in the construction of structures, the sacrifice of the child in the ballads of his mythological load. In particular, it examines the motives of the curse that begets her maiden beauty, the curse that leads to infertility and unhappiness in family life. The motive of magic poisoning, widely used in Ukraine, is a slim figure for ballads on love and premarital relations in the South Slavic territories.