Russian traditions and superstitions

“Myths are the expression of the primordial images in the collective unconscious of man. In the beginning man had certain experiences and received them in their psyche in the form of images. Since they are the first images they are called archetypes of the collective unconscious.” The above cited paragraph is the opinion of Carl Gustav Jung (qtd. in Trivedi). According to Jung the unconscious patterns of age old impressions play a prominent part in the production of literature. They serve to gauge

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will be the crucial point in the next part of my study. And Professor Upinder Singh explained that the invention of writing did not mean the end of oral tradition. But written evidence has become available to historians. Ancient and early medieval India texts can be divided into categories on the basis of language, genre, content, age and the tradition or class of literature to which they belonged. Sometimes, they are divided into religious and non-religious (‘secular’) texts. They consist of the Vedas

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