Magyar Zoltán

Legends of Early Hungarian Saints: type- and motif-index

DEMON, DEVIL

Saint drives out demon, devil, ghost

Ladislas: Saint exorcises the devil, demons: AnjouLeg-LA: plates 7-9.

Elizabeth: Saint drives off the devil of temptation on her death bed: EL IV:IV.34; EL V:30; EL VIII:38, 41; Temesvari: 98.24; Radocsay: 343 (Kassa: high altar of St. Elizabeth).

Kinga: Saint drives the devil out of a possessed boy: KI I:49. Saint drives the demon out of a possessed man (drawing the sign of the cross): KI I:36, 37. The devil disturbs a nun in her prayers, taking on the shape of man. Kinga chases devil away with her prayers and threaten him with her staff: KI I:46. The devil takes the shape of a giant hag and would not let saint enter the church. Saint chases devil away drawing the sign of the cross: KI I:9. Kinga appears (after her death) and chases away ghosts from the bedside of a prince’s wife: KI II:14.

Through saint’s merits demonic possession is cured

Gerald: A woman possessed by the devil is cured: GE II:65.

Elizabeth: The person possessed by the devil is liberated: EL II:80; EL III:13; EL VI:20; EL VII:8.IX, XVIII; EL VIII:46; Bonfini: 2.7.340; Temesvari: 98.24.

Helen: A girl possessed by the devil is cured: HE:24, 30.

Kinga: A girl possessed by the demon is liberated at Kinga’s burial-place: KI II:16.

Margaret: The person possessed by the demon is liberated: MA I:III.2, 14, V.1. (demon in the shape of vampyric lover); MA II:II.21, 22.

Demonic possession as divine retribution

Gerald: The pagan who profanates saint’s body is possessed by a demon and dies tearing and gnawing at his own flesh: GE I: 16.

Fight between angels and demons

Emeric: Angels take Emeric’s spirit to heaven, the devils try in vain to get hold of it (the vision of Eusebius of Caesarea): EM:13; ST III:39; AnjouLeg-EM: 2; Radocsay: 389 (the Mateóc altarpiece dedicated to Sts. Stephen and Emeric).

Legends of Early Hungarian Saints: type- and motif-index

Tartalomjegyzék

Kiadó: Akadémiai Kiadó

Online megjelenés éve: 2026

ISBN: 978 963 664 185 6

Művelődéstörténet Idegen nyelvű

The work of folklorist Zoltán Magyar throws light on a relatively little-known segment of the dynastyc cult of saints in Central European cultural history. The hagiographies and legends written on different members of the Árpadian dynasty, ruling in Hungary between the 11th and 13th centuries, and their contemporaries endowed with the aura of sanctity, occur not only in their medieval Hungarian legendry but have also become part of the liturgical tradition and the cult of saints on German, Polish and Byzantine soil. The thematic and generic variety of this legendry and its many folkloric implications show close parallels with another major work of medieval European hagiography: the legends of early Irish saints. The type- and motif-index and generatic catalogue compiled by Zoltán Magyar orders the epic tradition, based on 11rh-16th century written sources, of twelve Hungarian royal saints who have become the subject of legends shortly after their death. Beside classification according to the type of legendd heroes and themes, the book also contains an analysis of the biographical data, of the historical sources and of the primary types and motifs of hagiographies.

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