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A Russian fairy tale or folktale ... Some contain a moral, others seem amoral or even antimoral, Some constitute fables on man's follies and mistakes, others appear ...
Russian Fairy Tales (Russian: Народные русские сказки, variously translated; English titles include also Russian Folk Tales) is a collection of nearly 600 fairy and folktales, collected and published by Alexander Afanasyev between 1855 and 1863. The collection contained fairy and folk tales from Ukraine and Belarus ...
The Wise Little Girl (Russian: Мудрая дева) is a Russian fairy tale collected by Alexander Afanasyev in Narodnye russkie skazki. [1] This type of tale is the most common European tales to deal with witty exchanges. [2]
The story is also part of a collection of Russian fairy tales titled Vasilisa The Beautiful: Russian Fairy Tales published by Raduga Publishers first in 1966. The book was edited by Irina Zheleznova, who also translated many of the stories in the book from the Russian including Vasilisa The Beautiful. The book was also translated in Hindi and ...
In an "Irish fairy tale" compiled by authors Ada M. Skinner and Eleanor L. Skinner, How Timothy Won the Princess, a poor widow sends her son Timothy to sell her three white cows to put food on the table. However, the boy becomes delighted by the performance of a dwarf man, who produces a tiny mouse, a cockroach and a bee - all dressed in fine ...
The Magic Swan Geese (Russian: Гуси-лебеди, romanized: Gusi-lebedi) is a Russian fairy tale collected by Alexander Afanasyev in Narodnye russkie skazki, [1] numbered 113. It is classified in the Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index as tale type ATU 480A*. [2]
"The Gigantic Turnip" or "The Enormous Turnip" (Russian: Репка, Repka, IPA:, literally "small turnip"; ATU 2044, ‘Pulling up the turnip') is a cumulative Russian fairy tale, collected in Arkhangelsk Governorate and published in 1863 by folklore researcher Alexander Afanasyev in his collection Russian Fairy Tales (tale number 89), a collection not strictly Russian, but which included ...
Foxes (лиса; lisa) - Portrayed as witty females, foxes in Russian fairy tales would often trick their counterparts. This can be adult humans, wolves, roosters and bears. Roosters (петух, petukh)- In Russian fairy tales the rooster is associated with the sun, as well as good fortune and fertility. Hens often laid golden eggs and made ...