Animal Characters in the “transcarpathian Hungarian Folk Tales” Folk Tales Collection, Published in 2019
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: TanszékThis study is about the Transcarpathian Hungarian folk tales.The research is dedicated to examining the animal characters in the folk tales collection, published in 2019.The dialectical work and its accomplishments in the Department of Hungarian Philology is also mentioned in the beginning of the study.The purpose of the research is to demonstrate the main characteristics of the animal characters from the collection.This study also contains examination of subgenre of fairy tales with animal characters.The focus is on the characteristic features and genres of the fairy tails we have chosen.From the 52 fairy tales in the collection we have examined 12. Six of them contained animal characters.3 were humorous, 1 -a short story.Part of the animal characters have individual traits, but most of them have features that are generally characteristic in Hungarian folk tales.Different groups, types and themes are displayed in the fairy tales from the collection.We have studied before the fairy tales from the collection "Three gold arrow" (Három arany nyílvessző) where we also briefly summarized the history of fairy tale collection in Transcarpathia and analyzed the three miner's tales which occured in both of the mentioned above colletions.These tales open up a totally new word for the reader, not only in the Transcarpathian, but the whole world's folk poetry as well, since the tales are about the living conditions and superstitions of salt miners from Solotvyno.In this study we would like to point out the peculiarities of the tales with animal characters from the collection "Transcarpathian Hungarian folk tales".It is important to know that both of the collections contain several mythical tales -the animal characters of them we'll examine in another article, therefore we won't analyze them in this study.
Author: Csuka Emőke
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4413016618