Summary
Bojan Jovanović: Secret Lapota
One-sided and simplistic approach to the content of the legend about the killing of the elderly is a reason to reconsider scientifically unacceptable, but still valid, interpretations. Therefore, it is necessary to consider this tradition in a comprehensive, complex and in-depth manner and critically analyze the sources on the basis of which the wrong attitude about lapot was derived. If the question of killing the elderly is raised from a scientific point of view, then it is necessary to determine the context in which it was practiced, as well as the reliability of the sources on the basis of which the existence of this ritual practice is proven. Placing the ritual in the distant and unverifiable past opens up the question of evidence, that is, previous argumentation that is sought in relics in known common practice and folklore creations. To talk about prehistoric rituals with certainty and to consider them real means to ignore the results of previous research in the field of prehistoric mythology and religion.
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