title: Visionariness and Perceptions of Flying Serpents
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metadata.value: Puzanov, Daniil V.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2020-06-26T21:30:22Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2020-06-26T21:30:22Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2020-06
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Puzanov D. V. Visionariness and Perceptions of Flying Serpents. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2020, vol. 65, iss. 2, рp. 502–518.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.identifier.other
metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu02.2020.210
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/18365
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: There is a close relationship between memorates about flying serpents and special psychological
  states and visions. In southern Slavs, they are caused by mental illnesses and states of
  religious trance. In the north of the Slavic area, where widows’ visions are attributed to the
  actions of flying serpents, some parallels can be drawn between these phenomena and modern
  urban culture and the symptoms of acute grief when a person who has lost a relative can
  experience hallucinations involving the deceased. Despite the obvious similarities between
  the plots in which the flying serpent in a form of a dead spouse or a dead person himself visit
  the widow, the situation in which the form of the deceased is not related to the deceased itself
  requires further explanation. Even more so, since the Udmurt mythology, where the fiery
  serpent is not known, demonstrates exactly the same situation. The mediation of spirits could
  be connected with the belief in the impenetrability of the boundary between the afterlife and
  the world of the living. But it is not clear how such psychological phenomena in the past were
  mythologized. The article shows that there is some similarity, albeit rarely observed, between
  the Southern Slavic perceptions and Eastern Slavic folklore with regard to the relationship
  between the serpent and the obsessed and “demonic games”. It is possible to hypothesize that
  initially the appearance of a flying serpent was associated with the erotic techniques of ecstasy,
  and afterwards it became instrumental in understanding the nature of mental illnesses and
  manifestations of strong feelings caused by the loss of a close person.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: This article was prepared with the support of the Comprehensive Program of Fundamental Scientific
  Research, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, project No. 18-6-6-38.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 65; Issue 2
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: acute grief
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: hallucinations
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: flying serpent
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: fire serpent
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: religious trance
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: undead
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Visionariness and Perceptions of Flying Serpents
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
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