Hit által teremtett székely múlt

The study deals with the mythical elements of Székely historical consciousness and the external image of Székelyness. One of these is the origin myth, which is similar to that of other European peoples. The parallelism within the Hungarian origin that links the Székelys to the Huns is peculiar here. The virtual history (multkép) of the Székely people is based on this sense of descent, which was built by the chroniclers and later canonized in Werbőczy’s Triple Book, the „Bible” of the rights of the Hungarian nobility. All this in the XVII-XIX. it continued to spread in the colleges of the 19th century and in the Csíki Krónika, which proved to be historically false. A similar mythical element is the Székely Hymn, which became folklorized following a work created in 1920. Other mythical elements: the Székely character, intelligence, language, and farming in the mountains.

Keywords: Székelység, Székelyland, virtual history, myths, self-image