Carrying a Wolf, a Goat, and a Cabbage across the Stream. Metamorphoses of ATU 1579
Carrying a Wolf, a Goat, and a Cabbage across the Stream. Metamorphoses of ATU 1579

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the functioning of the plot of a fixed tale typeATU 1579 (Carrying a Wolf, a Goat, and a Cabbage across the Stream) as a riddle and a narrative and its forms which have surrounded the plot and originate in traditional folklore genres. Folklore, reconstructed and placed in new contexts, emerges in new genres. In the present computer era, the plot has not only emerged in narrative and riddle genre, but has emerged in an entirely new context – it has been widely applied in the form of an interactive computer game. The different forms, contexts, functions and goals of the type plot may be regarded as aspects of the dynamic folklore process.

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