ABSTRACT
The circumstances of the subjection to foreigners appear to have strengthened the family feeling of the South Slav peasants enormously. The Serbo-Croat peasant knows his relatives even to distant degrees. First cousins address and speak of one another as ‘brother’ and ‘sister’. When two families become connected by marriage, the whole family group feel themselves related, addressing one another as ‘prija’ or ‘prijatelj’, which latter word signifies ‘friend’, so close is the similarity between friendship and relationship in the Slav peasant mind.
