Erben fairy flowers – motive of magical plants in the poetic volume "Kytice"

Abstract

In this article author discloses world of magical flowers in the poetic works of Karel Jaromír Erben, particularly in the poetic volume Kytice. Erben in his ballads represents nature not only as a work domaine of gods of the Slavs, but also as a way to control mortal ones and impact on their life. Nature is therefore an emanation of divinity and the divine world is a theater in which the role of the director's play countless slavic gods.