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Spring Man - A Belief Legend between Folklore and Popular Culture (Hardcover)
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Spring Man - A Belief Legend between Folklore and Popular Culture (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Folklore and Ethnology: Traditions, Practices, and Identities
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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 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 19th century and draws parallels between
the Czech myth of spring man and similar urban phantom narratives
popular in the 1910s Russia, 1940s U.S. and Slovakia, 1950s
Germany, as well as other parts of the world.
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