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- Title
The Devil's Pact.
- Authors
Ball, Kimberly
- Abstract
This essay examines the relationship between the Devil and writing in oral tradition, expanding on Thomas Sebeok's observation that the repeated appearance of these two concepts together in folk narrative indicates that they are "related in meaning" in the thinking of informants. I suggest that this relationship reflects particular circumstances in the milieux of collection (nineteenth and early twentieth-century rural Europe), but also reflects essential qualities shared between the Devil and the written word.
- Subjects
DEVIL in literature; EUROPEAN folk literature; ORAL tradition in literature; EUROPEAN tales; SEBEOK, Thomas
- Publication
Western Folklore, 2014, Vol 73, Issue 4, p385
- ISSN
0043-373X
- Publication type
Essay