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Mother-in-law - is not only a real person who is in the lives of most men, but also a folklore character. People love the image of Tiffany takes often funny and sometimes frightening form.





Avoidance motive

The special relationship between mother-in-law and - a sign not of our century. Of the interesting features of this union in different tribes with the traditional way of writing more detail Sigmund Freud in his work "Totem and Taboo».

At the island nations of Oceania between mother-in-law and established relationships avoidance. In the Solomon Islands, a man from the day of the wedding does not have to see the wife's mother, and if accidentally meets her, he must pretend that it did not recognize, as well, and mother-in-law should not recognize his newfound relative. Among the tribes on the islands of bank-if-law wife's mother meets, he must turn his back on her and wait until she leaves.

The Zulus made ashamed of his mother in law and avoided her society. This motive of avoiding widespread in almost all ancient cultures, this ambivalent caution Freud explains how the fear of incest, and social factors, among which is the unwillingness of the dominant in-law to see the one who was sent to the tenderness of his wife, as well as the desire for domination in the family union .

Teschin language

One of the main images which in folklore associated with the mother - a way of "Teschin language." In today's world still "Teschin language" called special emergency road sections. In this category involve motives difficulty overcoming linguistic influence on the life and Tiffany motif deceit.

Folk mother-in-law in his speeches addressed to his brother-can teach him, saying "the truth of life", but it required a certain element of guile her speeches.

Integral to the Christian culture of the family motive lies in "pervoseme" union of Adam and Eve. In it the role of the tempter, saying "the truth of life", opening their eyes to the world of the family plays a serpent. It is associated with it and the folk image of Tiffany's, is no accident "Teschin language" as a formula closer to the "sting snake».

This comparison does not seem far-fetched, if you remember, for example, the story of Chekhov's "wife's mother-lawyer", where because of the words of Tiffany's, talks about the "real situation" crumbling marriage of her daughter. This is reflected in other literary works. In the novel by Ilf and Petrov's "12 chairs" is the word Tiffany Kisa Vorobyaninov start the novel, which was built on passion, temptation, at the end of Kish even wants to kill Ostap Bender. Mother-in-law as if avenging his son in law, pounding him with his "truth" deeper and deeper into the whirlpool of sin.

"Teschin language" - not only mythological, folkloric and literary plot, but it is a material thing, goods, property which is identical to the national submissions with the original way. Eugene Ivanov "Tagged Moscow word read:" Merchant Teschin language, that is a long paper flat holster, with squeaking is deployed on the spring by blowing air and available at the end of a feather color, solidly said: "wife's mother has died, language ordered to sell?" or Ivan Shmelev in "Merry wind": "The feisty Teschin language, with a sting! Hisses, whistles, on the tip of something, look ... a gun! Furious was only yesterday died-died! .. ».

Mother-in-law from Odessa

Urban folklore of the twentieth century, intelligent and ruthless, mother in law gave a truly demonic traits. Son-in it is infinite in confrontation with his mother-in. Earlier, in the traditional society, the bride was in her husband's house, in the XX century, due to the prevailing conditions (starting from the village, industrialization) passionate rustic-law was forced to move into the house of his wife, where he was no longer a master, where " bossed 'mother-in-law is.

A textbook example of this situation is presented, for example, in the story of Basil Shukshin "wife's mother from Odessa": "As one was going to visit ... The dust rose in the house. Wife, mother-in-law lost their feet: do to my husband, son looked decent. In-law suffered, endured - took off his hat and threw it in the garbage disposal, took off his tie, shoes, suit and lay down on the couch. "Fuck you ..." - told his wife and mother-in. They then talked quietly in the kitchen - the daughter complained to her husband: she could see how he is. - Yes - sadly sighed mother-in-law from Odessa ».

Riot-in-law - one of the main folklore and literary motifs. This is a mirror image of the plot "stepmother-stepdaughter." In-law, who turned in a foreign territory, in the house of his wife, in an unfamiliar and even hostile environment for themselves, see, knowing that his "zahomutat." Visual description of this condition can be seen in the story of Chekhov's "Wife": "test, a clean-shaven, dropsical privy councilor, crafty and avaricious, mother-in-law - a stout lady with small predatory features like a weasel, who loved her daughter and in all helping her daughter had choked a man, the mother would not say a word to her only have screened her with her skirts. Olga Dmitrievna, too, had small predatory features, but more expressive and bolder than her mother; this is not a weasel, but a beast bigger! "

To his mother on pancakes

The tradition of going to his mother on pancakes was in Russian traditional culture is not a simple observance of rituals. According to popular conceptions only on this day in-law and allowed to eat food, cooked mother-in. At all other times, food from Tiffany's almost considered taboo. On Wednesday, oilseed week, gourmet in-law and his wife came to the house of his father in law and mother-in. In-law had to eat all cooked meal.

And laugh or cry

Jokes about mother in law - a significant part of urban folklore. Their main motive - Tiffany's death marks the final liberation from some of its influence. Popular imagination in this regard has been very creative, it manifested the true "black rablezianstvo».

Abram brings home two color televisions. Reuben asked him:
- A two-then the TV you why?
- Yes, that's mother-in-law said that over half of my life give color TV.

- What is a mixed feeling?
- This is what you experience when you see how your mother-in-law in your car flying into the abyss.

- Where is your mother-in-law?
- In Minsk.
- A good refrigerator.

I must say that this is nothing wrong with a splash of nervous energy is not. Than the black humor, the more secure is the situation in reality. Making fun of life and relationships, people vent into the sphere of the ridiculous negative.