Abstract
The analysis is focused on the reconstruction of an image of fire as a living creature, preserved in the Polish folk culture. This image is corroborated by linguistic data, e.g. names, epithets, established connections, riddles, proverbs, formulas of greeting and bidding farewell to a home fire and of obviating fire, as well as by “paralinguistic data” that is beliefs and practices. Conceptualization of natural phenomena (such as fire) in the categories of a living “being” has a general cultural character, corresponds to a vision of the world as an integrated organism whose components are endowed with life and consciousness, and can be a manifestation of the mythical perception of the world. The analysed material has been acquired from dictionaries of dialects, works of folklore collectors and archive resources (i.e. the Ethnolinguistic Archive of Maria Curie-Skłodowska University and the File of the Dictionary of Polish Dialects of the Polish Academy of Sciences).
Highlights
The analysis is focused on the reconstruction of an image of fire as a living creature, preserved in the Polish folk culture
This image is corroborated by linguistic data, e.g. names, epithets, established connections, riddles, proverbs, formulas of greeting and bidding farewell to a home fire and of obviating fire, as well as by “paralinguistic data” that is beliefs and practices
Conceptualization of natural phenomena in the categories of a living “being” has a general cultural character, corresponds to a vision of the world as an integrated organism whose components are endowed with life and consciousness, and can be a manifestation of the mythical perception of the world
Summary
(4) modlitwa od ognia, jak się ogień chowało na kominie: Ogniku, Zygmancie, świętem krzyzem zegnam cie. Folf Zag nr 580; tamże war.: Jeszcze się ojciec nie narodził, już syn po dachu chodził. Że w ciągu roku ogień zanieczyszcza się i traci swą ochronną moc, dlatego stary wygaszano i zastępowano nowym – silniejszym[17] Mosz Kul 2/502; rozpalano go także w. Traktowanie ognia jako istoty żywej ujawnia się także w zakazach i nakazach związanych z jego traktowaniem. Przybyły ogień miał mówić: „Jutro spalę moją chatę, bo moja gospodyni źle się ze mną obchodzi, nie żegna mię wieczorem, pomyjami mnie zalewa”. Nie można też: drażnić ognia, bawić się nim, migać, bo będzie się gniewał ZWAK 1892/252, bo igrający będzie w nocy moczyć posłanie Wit Baj 80 i 284, ZWAK 1892/253, K 46 Ka-S 494, TN UMCS Motycz 1985; szerzej SSiSL I/1/273–274. Za szkodliwe uważano nawet otworzenie pieca chlebowego w chwili przechodzenia konduktu żałobnego obok domu Ogrod Zwycz 283
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