Bojan Žikić

The Cultural Representation of the Social Harmfulness of Inaćenje: A Proverb on the Relationship between the “Priest” and the “Village”

This article examines the Serbian proverb Naljutio se pop na selo, pa odsekao sebi kurac (“The priest became angry with the village and cut off his own dick”), conventionally interpreted as describing a person who acts against their own interests to their own detriment. I argue that the meaning of the proverb is more c...