The Uncanny Berzloy: Wolf-men, or Chechen Lycanthropy
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https://doi.org/10.31261/ZOOPHILOLOGICA.2023.11.01Keywords:
wolf, Chechnya, lycanthropy, myth, uncannyAbstract
The main objective of the paper is to examine the three “mythico-ritual scenarios of the Wolf ” in Chechen culture: the lycomorphic mythical Ancestor, actualization of a primordial event and military initiation. Elements of these scenarios may be observed in the song Аварское село by the contemporary Chechen bard Timur Mutsuraev. The military initiation presented in the song re-actualizes the Chechen myth of the She-Wolf. The phenomenon of the wolfish identity of the Chechens and their struggle are analyzed in the context of Sigmund Freud’s category of das Unheimliche (the uncanny).
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