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TELLING FAIRY TALES TODAY IN SLOVENIA

open access: yesEtnoAntropoZum, 2016
In Slovenia people encounter fairy tales primarily in books, during art performances, when they are recounted at folklore events, Assumption celebrations, etc.
Monika Kropej
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Nogai fairy tale epic: genesis and evolution of genres

open access: yesКавказология, 2023
The article summarizes some observations made by the author on the texts of authentic materials and gives conclusions related to the genesis, history of evolution, characteristics and distinction criteria of Nogai fairy tale epic genres: fantasy fairy ...
Nasipkhan Kh. Suyunova
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Sub-Genre Peculiarities of the Karachay-Balkar Household Fairy Tale

open access: yesOriental Studies, 2018
The article studies Karachay-Balkar fairy tales that constitute a considerable part of the national oral tradition. When defining the term “a household fairy tale”, the author reconsiders the accepted folkloristic views on the term “a novel fairy tale ...
H. H. Malkonduev
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A person and the world in a Mordovian folk tale (in comparison with folktales of other ethnic cultures)

open access: yesФинно-угорский мир, 2022
Introduction. The effectiveness of the research of folklore for the cognition of the cosmo-psycho-logos of the ethnos determines the relevance of this work.
Anastasia A. Osmushina
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Positive heroes of Russian and Chinese fairy tales (contrastive aspect) [PDF]

open access: yesRhema. Рема, 2021
The article deals with the concept of “The Good Hero of Fairy Tales” in the Russian and Chinese language pictures of the world; identifies the distinctive features (what?) of the universal cultural concept.
I. Odintsova, Zhou Yujie
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An evaluation of Ignác Kúnos’s forty-four Turkish Fairy Tales in terms of values

open access: yesTurkish Journal of Education, 2016
The purpose of this study is to scrutinize Ignác Kúnos ’s Forty-Four Turkish Fairy Tales in terms of the values that are required to be given directly within the scope of the 6th and 7th grade social studies curriculum.
Bahadır Kılcan
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Household Fairy Tales of the Kalmyks: an Effort of Research and Classification

open access: yesOriental Studies, 2018
So far the genre of the Kalmyk household fairy tale has not been a subject of special folklore research despite the generally accepted fact that household fairy tales of the Kalmyks are of exceptionally high artistic merit.
T. G. Basangova
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Les contes médiévaux et les contes de fées modernes

open access: yesFééries, 2010
Medieval tales differed fundamentally from fairy tales, which first emerged in the 1550s in Giovan Francesco Straparola’s Piacevoli Notti. Some motifs that exist in modern fairy tales (shoe, witch) can be found in ancient or medieval tales, but fairy ...
Ruth B. Bottigheimer
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The Thorns of Trauma: Torture, Aftermath, and Healing in Contemporary Fairy-Tale Literature

open access: yesHumanities, 2021
While classical fairy tales do not portray much depth of suffering, many contemporary fairy-tale retellings explore trauma and its aftermath in great detail. This article analyzes depictions of trauma in fairy tales, utilizing as a primary case study the
Jeana Jorgensen
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Fairy Tale Plots in G. J. Ramstedt’s Records

open access: yesOriental Studies, 2018
The article describes the set of plots of Kalmyk fairy tales recorded by the Finnish scholar G. J. Ramstedt in the early 20th century. The phonetically transcribed and published by G. J.
Baira Goryaeva, Alexandra Bayanova
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