Abstract: The article treats in depth the uniqueness of discourse and demonstrates why concepts from medical discourse do not enter legends in unchanged form. Since they are unfit for presentation as a separate structured plot, they have no function in folk narratives. However, this does not rule out the fact that people knew them and put to use when encountered with disease. Their format - ready-made single concepts distributed mainly by the literary tradition - made them more apt to be represented in folk belief accounts. The latter genre, due to the e...
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