Abstract
This paper explores one of the most influential conspiracy theories of all time, as described in the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, by employing the method of structural analysis. The "master myth" of the Protocols represents a basic structure of the conspiracy narrative, which motifs were subsequently modified through the 20th and later in the 21st centuries according to current events and moods.
But to understand the pamphlet as a whole, it is also important to shed a little light to its particular historical context and the religious, political and social fervor of that time that eventually gave rise to this text that we still can consider a blueprint of contemporary conspiracy narratives about the global cabal that occupies a prominent place within nowadays conspiracy culture.