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标题：The Changing Meaning of ‘Thunderbolts’
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作者：Kristiina Johanson
期刊名称：Folklore : Electronic Journal of Folklore
印刷版ISSN：1406-0957
电子版ISSN：1406-0949
出版年度：2009
卷号：42
出版社：Estonian Literary Museum and Estonian Folklore Institute
摘要：The article concentrates on the widespread belief in the phenomenon of ‘thunderbolts’. Stone artefacts like Stone Age axes, adzes, chisels, daggers, sickles, spear- and arrowheads as well as Iron Age strike-a-lights are mainly understood by the name ‘thunderbolt’, but no doubt various natural stones of peculiar or unusual shape were believed to have been created by strike of lightning as well. While corresponding examples of identifying and using ‘thunderbolts’ are given from different areas of the world, the emphasis is set on the respective Estonian material, introducing both the sources of archaeology as well as of folklore. The author discusses the background and the motifs of the well-known belief in ‘thunderbolts’ and reaches the conclusion that in Estonia it cannot be dated to a period prior to the Pre-Roman Iron Age when stone artefacts were no longer produced for practical reasons, and it is believed that the motifs of the belief were adopted significantly later, perhaps after the Christianization of the country in the 13th century.
关键词：archaeological material; folklore texts on ‘thunderbolts’; history of;archaeological thinking; ‘thunderbolt’ belief