ORAL LITERATURE IN KUKULJEVI？’S ARKIV ZA POVJESTNICU JUGOSLAVENSKU

Sa？etak Ivan Kukuljevi？ Sakcinski holds an honourable place among scientists as he was the first to have gathered materials in wider Croatian area, in Me？imurje, which was then legally and realistically in Hungary, and among Burgenland Croats in Austria, whereas in 1847 he published an extensive collection of oral folk songs in all three dialects. At the same time, the collection reveals his extraordinary interest for ethnography and folk tradition that sometimes contains fairy tale elements. Therefore, it does not come as a surprise that oral literature and ethnography hold a prominent place in his Arkiv za povjestnicu jugoslavensku (Eng. Archive for South-Slavic Historical Book). Already in the first issue, Kukuljevi？ looked for a broader associate cycle, to whom he addressed twenty-six questions, six of which concerned ethnography and oral literature. A great number of scientists from various regions in the South-Slavic region replied to him so that he received a couple of interesting answers to each of his questions. Many of them represent complete short stories which he then entirely published as well. At least some of his associates are worth mentioning. They are: Antun Branko Pavi？ from Po？ega region, Mijat Stojanovi？ from Slavonija and Syrmia, bishop Simeon Milinovi？ from Lovre？ in Dalmatia, Franciscan Petar Ka？i？ Peko from ？kotar makarski“, ？uro Stjepan De？eli？ from Ivani？-Grad, Matija Valjavec Kra？manov from Vara？din and surrounding areas, Davor Modru？i？ Lonjanac from Slovenia, Luka Zora from Dubrovnik region, Vlatko Lorkovi？ from Karlovac region, Ga？par Kri？nik from Motnik (Slovenia), and also associates from Bulgaria. The received notes contain a couple of thematically connected groups dealing with fairies, witches, werewolves (sometimes with vampire features), a wolf shepherd, Mora, Kuga, Parcals, ghosts, spooks, death, night candles, a snake in human form, including also a number of very successful writings containing songs, proverbs, sayings, and riddles. The songs can be divided into wedding songs, carols or St John’s Day songs, Christmas songs, mythological songs, humorous or mocking songs and laments or dirges. One must emphasise the writings with mythological songs about Mary and Nedjelja that in the course of oral transmission underwent larger changes and in the end it became a song of passion or Mary’s cry over her son, to be more precise. Among mocking songs, the first place should also go to Lorkovi？’s writing Ignac kralj (Eng. Ignac, the king). It is a story in verses about an unfaithful wife who meets her lover when her husband