Abstract
As the basis of traditional architecture and geological composition of a large part of the Balkans, stone inevitably marked an epic picture of the world. In epics, stone is also a part of the burial rites, as a means of magical cursing and as an element of common practice (wearing a stone around the neck). However, its symbolic dimensions are much more involved. Due to a number of features suitable for metaphorical transfer – immobile, heavy, solid, cold, barren, inanimate, matter foreign to the human constitution – stone played an extremely important role in the conceptual framework of folklore. Practically every one of the above mentioned aspects has become a generator of oral formulas and idiomatics more widely. In religious nar- ratives motifs of miracles were connected to stone (water flowing from the stone), while in epics, cores of an ethnocultural model were accentuated by the motif of stone, such as the firmness of a given word or faith.
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