THE BOY WHO DEFEATED THE MAN-EATER: BASIC PLOTS WITH THE HERO ITJA IN SELKUP FOLKLORE
This article presents an analysis of the significant body of Selkup folklore texts with the character Itja (Itcha) and his opponent – An Man-Eater (Giant). A detailed analysis has been provided for one of the identified scenes, and namely stories about a Boy (the hero) who defeated An Man-Eater. This group is the most numerous among the fixations in the Selkup language and consists of 28 texts. The analysis reveals that the bulk of the corpus is divided into three main plots, which are the basis for the entire collection of Itja-texts that are portrayed differently in the territory of residence of the Selkups.
Keywords: Selkup folklore, texts with the hero Itja, tale-types and motifs, folklore plots classification
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Issue: 4, 2016
Series of issue: Issue 4
Rubric: ANTHROPOLOGY
Pages: 135 — 158
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