TY - JOUR AU - Šadauskas, Vilius PY - 2019/10/29 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - The changes of baltic mythological creatures concept in XXI century Vidukle’s community JF - Istorija / History JA - istorijoszurnalas VL - 102 IS - 2 SE - Articles DO - 10.15823/istorija.2016.06 UR - https://ejournals.vdu.lt/index.php/istorijoszurnalas/article/view/819 SP - 76-104 AB - <p>Considering the changes in the cultural consciousness of Lithuanian rural and small town residents, intended to carry out a systematic study of the concept of mythological creatures. The article analyzes the field study collected information characterizing the twenty-first century town of Vidukle and surrounding villages in the situation. Formed a systematic questionnaire, taking into account aspects such as functionality, appearance, living space, the relationship with the man, described the ten most popular of the Baltic mythological and legendary creatures. The study collected information is compared with the sixteenth-eighteenth and nineteenth century’s written sources of information, Lithuanian folk legends and mythologists works to identify the essential differences between concept of mythological creatures in the earlier period and the twenty-first century.</p> ER -