DEMONISM IN OUR ORAL AND WRITTEN LITERATURE
Keywords:
demonic beings, dual nature of the image, unity of good and evil, magic helper, mythological thinking, written art, polysemantismAbstract
The most common demonic creature in folklore is the devil. According to the folk’s opinion the demon puts in action not only ill-wishers, but also good people in the world, the demon plays an indispensable role in the work of people (good and bad), in their earning for living, the people can’t do anything without the demon.
Like other chthonic beings, the demon has a dual nature, in which it combines good and evil, well and harm, construction and destruction in the organic form. It is quite natural that the devil, who appears as an evil force, eventually becomes the magic helper of the folk hero.
The general features of the imaginations about the devil and demonic beings as a whole, coming from myth and folklore, also have an impact on written literature. In the works such as “Peri jadu” (“Fairy witchcraft”) by Abdurrahim bey Hagverdiyev, “Devil” by Huseyn Javid one can meet multi-layered, multi- faceted and multi-planed artistic expressions of the theme of demonism.
