Chapter
Self-Destruction in Bulgarian Folk Songs (IN: Suicide in Different Cultures, ed. by N L Farberow)
Schipkowensky N~~Milenkov K~~Bogdanova A
This chapter uses folk songs to provide ideas about the frequency & the motivational structure of the act of suicide in Bulgaria. Self-destructive motivations found in the songs studied include love, preservation of dignity, insult, deceit or disappointment, impasse, physical suffering, & jokes. (LH)