Motif đồng sinh trong truyện dân gian Việt Nam

Abstract

Motifs of multiple births appear pretty many in Vietnamese folklore, and they have differences, and changes in genres. In mythology, this motif presents the formations of “mankind”, “everybody” - people of the same clan, and country. In legends, this motif has less of the number of people/ number of bearing - normally, twin. Characters of multiple births are symbols of people - they always go with, and agree with national heroes. In these two genres, folk use unreal elements, and miracles when they describe multiple births children. In fairy tales, folk doesn’t describe miracles in bearing, but decrease the art of the unreal to concentrate to describe characters’ fates. Therefore, motifs of multiple births have movement progresses, changes to reflect bearing shown in number, shown in miracle elements.