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FOLK BELIEFS - on the example of Lika's villages of Kompolje, Hrvatsko Polje and Srpsko Polje -

The Lika's villages of Kompolje and Hrvatsko Polje (in which are included the earlier settlements of Srpsko Polje and Bjeljevine) are situated in the Republic of Croatia, in the Ličko - senjska county, Otočac district. The area discussed in this article was named Kompolje (Catholic and Vlaško) back in the times of the Military Border. After the demilitarisation and the introduction of land registry Kompolje was divided into two villages: Hrvatsko Kompolje and Srpsko Kompolje (Vlaško Polje) ; by the end of the 19th century they received their official names: Kompolje and Vlaško Polje, and after the 1st World war they were named: Kompolje and Srpsko Polje, which remained until the end of 1992. when the villages were renamed again. Since that time the villages are named Kompolje and Hrvatsko polje (in which are included the earlier settlements of Srpsko Polje and Bjeljevine). Since the area discussed is located near the border and influenced by both croatian - serbian and catholic - eastern orthodoxy, the author in this article shows folk beliefs in those villages of Lika with a distinct review of catholic and orthodox forms of those beliefs. The work is based on the research of Jure Grčević which was conducted by the early 1950., and published in the Kompolje monography. Folk life and beliefs (Otočac, 2000). Those beliefs originated right on the border, during contacts and meetings of members of catholic and eastern orthodoxy faiths. The topics discussed, amongst other things, are folk beliefs in the beginning of the world and its survival, in the existence of supernatural power that rules this world, the sources of (supernatural) power that some people possess, belief in the existence of creatures that are alike humans, in the existence of strength possessed by beasts and monsters and the belief in the afterworld. Aditionally, the author also explores the divination, spellwork and magic that governed and gave meaning to the every-day "world of life" (Lebenswelt) of those people aswell as the religious (catholic and orthodox) saints and their powers and influences without which the religious life of these people as members of the (croatian) Catholic and (serbian) Orthodox Church would be unimaginable.

Croatia, Lika, Otočac, Kompolje, Hrvatsko Polje, Srpsko Polje, catholicism, eastern orthodoxy, folk beliefs, divination, spellwork.

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