Obrzęd(y) w "Lilijach" Adama Mickiewicza

Abstract

The author of the paper focuses on the phenomenon of rites in Lilije, a ballad by Adam Mickiewicz. The author claims that the whole rite has been triggered by a crime, when the wife kills her husband. She murders him upon his return to her and their children from war. Mickiewicz’s Ballads and Romances published two hundred years ago, still captivate us today with their language and, above all, with the power of imagination that the author offers the reader in every work, through descriptions of folk beliefs and stories which, linked to the rhythm of life, reveal its meaning and the mystery contained in rites. On the one hand, these rites or magical practices help to explain reality and, on the other, emphasise that reality also has another face, which we will never know, as it belongs to beings from the beyond.