NOISY CREATURES OF NIGHT SILENCE

Abstract

According to traditional beliefs in Serbia, silence is one of the basic charecteristic of night: not dark nor bloomy, but s. c. „deaf“ time. Night is a perio of social silence „inhabitated“ according to traditional thaught, with creatures from some other, unsensory reality. Every sound produced during this „anti-time“ is considered a product of their action, and bourdened with a new, „night meanings“. Nights creatures can announce themselves directly or indirectly „using“ this world's noisy correspondents (animals). From the individual point of view, night sound is becoming paticulary dangerous, if it overfows senses directly, through the creatures, that do not belong to familiar world of day light.