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Sad destiny of the children of the cruel parents
Author(s) -
S Lasta Djapovic
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
glasnik etnografskog instituta/glasnik etnografskog instituta sanu
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2334-8259
pISSN - 0350-0861
DOI - 10.2298/gei0553365d
Subject(s) - destiny (iss module) , wife , psychology , point (geometry) , social psychology , developmental psychology , law , political science , physics , geometry , mathematics , astronomy
Two folk stories have almost the same beginning but a different outcome. In the beginning, a husband and wife, accidentally, try human meat and they like it so much so they decide to eat their own children. In both stories, the children managed to escape, and while their lives develop in different directions, the stories omit their reintegration into human society. After a detailed analysis, the author concludes that the stories’ message is to warn that there is no life in a deviant society. The stories note that a deviant behavior exists indeed, but at the same time, they mark it as something that does not belong to a society, culture and in addition, the stories point out to a way of overcoming such behavior. The way to overcome a deviant behavior consists in appropriate maturation of a female and male gender, in maturation that includes self restrain

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