This dissertation tries to build up a suitable structure so as to answer to the questions brought up during the research on the Feast of the Magi - oral tradition related to Christmas celebrations and maintained as a folk entertainment until today thanks to its interrelation with contemporary culture. The hybrid form of thesis-screen-play has been chosen in order not only to clarify adequately each of its dimensions - verbal, performatic, mythic, historical, social and political - but also to appreciate / explore the interdisciplinary wealth of this subject. The model of the screen-play has provided a basis for writing the argumentative text developing the conflict between artistic invention and conceptual-critic thinking.