stepsШаги/StepsShagi / Steps2412-94102782-1765The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration10.22394/2412-9410-2023-9-3-87-107steps-83Research ArticleСтатьиК вопросу о происхождении легенд о Мелюзине и Белой змееOn the quest ion of the origin of legends about Melusine and Madame White Snakehttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-2421-2484СтаростинаА. Б.StarostinaA. B.

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В статье рассмотрено происхождение близких структурно и содержательно легенд — западноевропейской о Мелюзине и китайской о Белой змее. Автор принимает вывод Дин Найтуна о генетической связи рассказа об укрощении оборотня Аполлонием Тианским в написанной Флавием Филостратом биографии, с одной стороны, с китайскими позднесредневековыми нарративами о Белой змее, начиная с повести Фэн Мэнлуна, а с другой — с западноевропейскими рассказами XII–XIII вв. о союзах с демоническими женщинами. Предпринята попытка на этой основе и с привлечением дополнительных данных — в первую очередь фрагмента «Искендер-намэ» Низами и рассказов из свода Хун Мая «Ицзянь чжи» — уточнить родственные отношения между всеми этими сюжетами, а также между ними и легендой о Мелюзине.

This paper examines the origins of two legends that are close in structure and content: the Western European tale of Melusine and the Chinese tale of the White Snake. The author accepts Ding Naitong's conclusion about the genetic link between the ancient story of the taming of a shape-shifting empousa (witch or lamia) by Apollonius of Tyana in the 3rd century biography written by Lucius Flavius Philostratus and a) late medieval Chinese tales of the White Snake, beginning with the story of Feng Menlong in the 17th century, and b) Western European stories of marriages with demonic women from the 12th and 13th centuries, including Walter Map’s Henno cum dentibus. On this basis, and with the help of additional data, mainly a fragment of Nizami’s Iskandar-nāmeh and two stories from Hong Mai’s (1123–1202) collection Yijian zhi (“Records of Yi Jian”), an attempt has been made to clarify the relationship between all these plots, as well as between them and the Melusine legend. The article raises the question of a possible connection between the figure of Xu Xuan, who was the protagonist of Feng Menglong’s tale, and Apollonius of Tyana as a character in a mythological narrative.

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