The Drava river and the Mura affluent as a homeland, barrier and mythical waters of the međimurje and the vicinal Kaikavian traditional poetry

Rijeka Drava i njezina pritoka Mura opjevani su motivi kajkavskih tradicijskih pjesama Međimurja, Podravine i Hrvatskog zagorja. One predstavljaju stvarne zavičajne rijeke koje su istodobno i fizička razdjelnica i komunikacijski put, od kojih se istodobno i zazire i živi. Katkad opjevane kao mitske vode između stvarnoga i onostranog svijeta, nisu izrijekom imenovane. Tajanstvene močvare, mora, rijeke, jezera, bezdani i zdenci, oko kojih se kreću božanstva ili nadnaravna bića, svjedoče o povijesnom susretanju i prožimanju hrvatske pretkršćanske i kršćanske duhovnosti.The Drava River and its the Mura affluent are the motifs of the Kaikavian traditional poetry of Međimurje, Podravina and the Croatian Hinterland. This flows represent a real local rivers, which are a physical barrier and a communication way at the same time, which give life and induce the backlash. Sometimes sung as the mythical waters which separate real world and otherworld, they don’t explicitly appointed. Mysterious swamps, seas, rivers, lakes, abysses and wells, which deities or supernatural beings get around, testify about historical encountering and pervasion of Croatian pre-Christian and Christian spirituality