THE FOUNTAIN MOTIF IN FAIRY TALES
THE FOUNTAIN MOTIF IN FAIRY TALES

Summary/Abstract: The main spiritual means by which man communicates himself to others and others communicate themselves to him, as complementary sense and feeling sources, is the word. By word people strengthen their common humanity, transmitting this strength to each other by their distinctiveness. The one who communicates the water of his/her life by word is himself/herself not only a source of this water, but is also thirsty to fill with different waters, others‘ water, by listening to their word. People fill each other spiritually out of an ancestral need of communication sowed in the soul by the divine triune love. Man himself is a source of living water by that he gives himself to another to fill that one to whom he gives himself by word. Thus, fairy tales are made of words which make present symbols and experiences. They are needed by the age of childhood and not only by children alone, because they are an arch over time, sources of human creative imagination. The fairy tale fount symbolizes most of all the source of life, the passage of time, purification, trial. It is itself the source of fairy tales.

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