Reflections on a Folk Legend
Author(s)
Title
Reflections on a Folk Legend
Alternative Title
Pазмышления об одном народном предание
Publication Type
Language
rus
Number of Pages
4
Location
Tajikistan
Keywords
Folklore
Legend
Qahqaha
Ishkashim
Beliefs
Rivayat
Relevance to ICH Safeguarding
Description
In this article, an attempt was made to reveal the historic sources of folk legends and, moreover, to define their genre features according to the texts and their variants. In order to clarify the genre particularity of legends, in the center of the article is described several variants of the legend about the fortress Qahqaha in Namadgut, Ishkashim district. Here arise doubts about the existence of Qahqaha as a historical personality. There are no reliable facts about Qahqaha as a historical person. Nevertheless, according to some sources and from the very content of the legends, it can be assumed that Qahqaha is not absolutely a mythical or fictional person.
Since it is impossible to come to certain conclusions regarding their essence and genre features based on a single text of some types of oral works. From the contents of most legends, it is possible to conclude that in some places of mountainous Badakhshan, people lived at a time when they did not have a single religion moreover, they lived in a disparate environment.
Thus, from these statements we once again to conclude that a researcher can make a judgment about the features of different folklore works only if he has several of their versions.
Since it is impossible to come to certain conclusions regarding their essence and genre features based on a single text of some types of oral works. From the contents of most legends, it is possible to conclude that in some places of mountainous Badakhshan, people lived at a time when they did not have a single religion moreover, they lived in a disparate environment.
Thus, from these statements we once again to conclude that a researcher can make a judgment about the features of different folklore works only if he has several of their versions.
Book/Journal Title
Publisher
Institute of Humanities named after academician Bahodur Iskandarov
Place of Publication
Tajikistan
Date of Publication
2024
Issue
1
Pages
103-110
ISSN
2708-308X
Academic Field
Folklore studies
Ethnography
Community/Ethnic Group
Ishkashim district, Badakhshan of Tajikistan
People in Badakhshan
Contributor
Active Contribution
Tajikistan, FY 2024