Benedek Csaba – H. Bathó Edit – Gulyás Katalin – Horváth László – Kaposvári Gyöngyi szerk.: Tisicum - A Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok Megyei Múzeumok Évkönyve 14. (2004)

All Is Not... That Glitters

VILMOS VOIGHT ALL IS NOT ... THAT GLITTERS In recent years the proving of erotic themes has picked up again. The majority of these can be really interpreted this way, but in case of some folklore texts it is the reflection of the interpreter's inscape rather than that of the folklore. In my paper I'm trying to use the following implications. 1. Not all vulgar, obscene and scatological texts can be characterised as erotic. 2. The contortion of existing texts often uses the vocabulary of eroticism. 3. Although Hungarian people are pudent by nature (when it is necessary), they still call a spade a spade (if necessary). 4. Frequently it is not the text itself but its function that carries eroticism. The final conclusion of my paper is nearly the same as the title. The eroticism that exists in Hungarian folklore should be called and analysed like that. But those things that aren't erotic should not be viewed in a very strange way. 249