Abstract
Some of the kings in the narrative actually follow Kantian orientation in their judgment and allow the right of necessity to enter into their thinking: they listen to others or (the good sense of) the truthful heart because of their limited or deficient knowledge. Others, delighted with their self-belief and mania for power, throw scorn on the law, on mercy, pardon, and forgiveness, and let themselves be led by anger, stupidity, complacency, stigma and desire for exclusion. In the tale narratives, they are further represented as scholars/wisemen, fortune-tellers, the ‘foresighted’, ancient old men, old women, wizards, taltoses (in the words of folklorist Ilona Nagy “mysterious people of fate”), doubles/doppelgangers, or animals with extraordinary abilities (the ability to speak human languages, or to transfigure themselves), prestigious kings from another country, ministers, advisors, witches who deceive the king (not uncommonly Gypsy women), depending on whether the intention is to link the giver of advice and the meaning of what he says to the sacred (biblical) or the profane (sometimes mythical), as it illuminates his/her existential character.
Highlights
In the Hungarian-language narratives of the Carpathian Basin we frequently encounter accounts of royal dreams and the monarch’s order that they be deciphered, alongside the cruelty of the judgment which hangs over heroes, the discursive form of forgiveness, and the dialogue between the heroes and their helpers
Introductory comments We begin our comments with the Kantian theorem: «You can stay safe from all error, if you do not start to judge something of which the knowledge you possess is insufficient» (Kant, 2014: 8)
Cseke —just like Rene Girard, the religious anthropologist trained in the same line of thought (Girard, 2001: 19, 21)— sees the judgement itself in one infinitely “mimetic” cynical relationship of the individual and the community in the “the throes of violence”, where those who judge point to the scapegoat
Summary
In the Hungarian-language narratives of the Carpathian Basin we frequently encounter accounts of royal dreams and the monarch’s order that they be deciphered, alongside the cruelty of the judgment which hangs over heroes, the discursive form of forgiveness, and the dialogue between the heroes and their helpers.
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