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Spring Man: A Belief Legend between Folklore and Popular Culture

Spring Man: A Belief Legend between Folklore and Popular Culture

Janecek, Petr

Hardcover

Series: Studies in Folklore and Ethnology: Traditions, Practices, an, Book 9

AnthropologyMythology & FolkloreGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1666913758
ISBN13: 9781666913750
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: Nov 11 2022
Pages: 228
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Spring Man: A Belief Legend between Folklore and Popular Culture deconstructs the nationalistic myth of Spring Man that was created after the Second World War in visual culture and literature and presents his original form as an ambiguous, ghostly denizen of oral culture. Petr Janecek analyzes the archetypal character, social context, and cultural significance of this fascinating phenomenon with the help of dozens of accounts provided by period eyewitnesses, oral narratives, and other sources. At the same time, the author illustrates the international origin of the tales in the originally British migratory legend of Spring-heeled Jack that reaches back to the second-third of the nineteenth century, and Janecek also draws parallels between the Czech myth of Spring Man and similar urban phantom narratives popular in the 1910s Russia, 1940s United States and Slovakia, and 1950s Germany, as well as other parts of the world.

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