MAGIC AND SPELL IN FANTASY: HISTORICAL CONTEXTS OF SUPERNATURAL ELEMENTS IN FANTASY GENRE NARRATIONS

This paper will examine the usage and functions of the magic concept in fantastic narrations with the consideration of importance of supernatural in history.Magic and spell are different versions of supernatural. Theyall represent different structures of society in certain historical periods of humanity. While magic highlights the primitive era of civilizations, spell& occultism became important with the invention of writing. Defining and analyzing the supernatural types will also help to understand power relations, consensus reality and dominant ideology in society. With the acknowledgments of supernatural types in history, paper will make a study of fantastic genre in order to find the link between usage of supernatural in narrations and their political – economicalrelations.Paper will ask the question of does analyzing the supernatural elements in narration help to understand texts discourse? and in the conclusion section it will try to give an answer. As a version of supernatural, magic has a link with matriarchy.Till witch hunt, magic can be accepted as a way of resistance of women against to patriarchy. In this point, paper will investigate of the connection between the usage of magic in fantasy and matriarchal theory.