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Treasure-Hunting as a Plot in Folk Tales

Summary/Abstract: The appearance of the Arab, the guardian of a treasure, as a personage both in the fairy tale and in folklore fiction, which is not fairy tales, prompts the author to look, apart from the genre and poetic mechanisms (operating in the fairy tale), for other - ideational and contextual mechanisms, based on the world view. There is a number of common beliefs and practicated with the hiding underground, searching out, excavation and acquisition of treasures. Their analysing leads to the conclusion that the beliefs and ideas about the goblin-keeper of the treasure have changed and that goblin been transformed into a wonderful assistant and guardian in the fairy tale. Therefore the wonderful appearance of the Arab, the guardian of the treasure, far from being just a requirement of the genre is also a necessity, related to a whole set of beliefs.

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