TÄNAPÄEVA EESTI INIMESE KUJUTLUS HALDJAST EHK KES HALDJAS ON OLNUD JA KELLEKS TA ON SAANUD
inimestevahelistesse suhetesse keskaegses kultuuriruumis - nii selgitati ja põhjendati
klassisüsteemi paikapidavust ning näidati, et inimene ei tohiks ihaldada kättesaamatut/keelatut.
Haldjas on alati inimesest võimsam.
4 “Selles, et metshaldja ja inimese ühistel lastel on üliinimlikud võimed, peituvad kreeka
mütoloogia jumalate laste juttude algmed.” (Masing 1998:180)
5 “The Esthonians believe that the Neck has fish’s teeth. An Esthonian legend relates that one time a girl was stopt
by a pretty boy that had on him a handsome peasant’s belt and forced to scratch his head a little. She did so, and
while she was so engaged she was,without her knowledge, fastened to him by his belt, but the rubbing of her hand
set him to sleep. Meanwhile a woman passed by, who came up and asked the girl what she was doing there. She told
her the whole matter, and as she was speaking she freed herself from the belt
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