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“… have (no) rest” “Beyond” as region de passage and place of eternity in popular piety and sacral traditions in Southern Carinthia
Peter Wiesflecker
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“… have (no) rest”
“Beyond” as region de passage and place of eternity in popular piety and sacral traditions in Southern Carinthia
The mixed-language area of Southern Carinthia (German/Slovenian) has been a mostly rural characterized region until late 20th century. Based on broad ethnographic material of funeral customs in this region, imaginations of the beyond in this society are presented.
Mental (cultivating remembrance, donations, memorial masses) as well as local and temporal transgressions are enshrined in popular belief and folk tales. Such transgressions become ap-parent for example in the commemoration of the dead, which has to be – concerning to popu-lar belief – strictly limited. Neither “too much” of mourning and commemorating nor “too less” lets the dead body come to rest. In both cases, folk tales or local narratives can give ex-amples for contact attempts of the dead (e. g. knocking signs, “revenants”).
Folk piety is also aware of particular places, where the world of the living meets the world of the dead (e.g. the hearth fires as a residence of the “poor Souls” and a place of feeding the dead; crossroads/roads junctions or the entrance to graveyards, where the one, who currently passed away, keeps watch). Folk piety is also aware of times and periods by which those bor-ders can be crossed (e.g. the night between All Saint’s and All Soul’s Day, attendants of the “Percht”, a demonic Austrian folk figure, in the evening before Epiphany.
Finally is taken a quick glance at “defense traditions” that especially come apparent at the rites de passage.
Ključne riječi
popular belief; folk piety; folk tales; imaginations of the beyond; mental; local and temporal transgressions of the beyond; Southern Carinthia
Hrčak ID:
151529
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Datum izdavanja:
20.1.2016.
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