The Problem of the Relationship Between Russian Oral Folk Traditions and Cheap Popular Literature: Fairy Tales About Animals-in-LAW
Abstract
The article deals with Russian fairy tales related to type ATU 552 The Girls Who Married Animals. They use to be widespread both in Russian cheap popular literature (lubok), and in the oral folk tradition. The first literary adaptation of this plot is found in the «Pentamerone» by G. Basile.
Keywords cheap popular tradition (lubok), Russian fairy tale, animals-in-lаw