Original scientific paper

KRALJICE [QUEENS] IN ACADEMY

Ivan Lozica orcid.org/0000-0001-7537-0004 ; Intitute of Ethnology and Folklore Research, Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

Starting from the description of the "staging" of customs at the 100th Anniversary of the
Academy in 1966, the author summarizes Croatian and Serbian interpretations of the
custom of kraljice [queens] and links it to the pre-Christian koleda [Christmas carol] and
the custom of electing the king, using ethnochoreological sources and comparing the
custom to the Slovak and Czech sources. He offers a new argumentation of three variants of
the origin of kraljice (belonging to the old Slavic stratum, who took over the custom with
its common pre-Indoeuropean origins from the non-Slavic population of the Southeast
Europe). The paper deals most with the interpretation of the relationship between myth and
ritual/custom (especially in consideration with the myth of androgyne and the gender issue)
as well as with the role of scholars in the preservation of tradition.

Keywords

kraljice; koleda; sword dances; myth; ritual; gender

Hrčak ID:

33386

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/33386

Publication date:

4.12.2000.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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