Ristipuud maastikul ja usundilises jutupärimuses

Abstract

The topic of cross-trees and related events is an illustrative example of folklorisation process, quite unanticipated by both local and western folklorists. On the example of cross-tree tradition were may agree that the factors driving the folklorisation process, such as, for example, the ownership of land or forest, may often function independently from active lore bearers. We may agree that these objects of cultural heritage, which people have a passive relationship with and which reflect the values of the past, are slightly better protected. The fate of such ritual objects or sacred trees in the landscape, with which tradition bearers have retained an active ritual relationship, often depends of the ability and wish of tradition bearers to establish them in modern legal space.