Folk Narratives and Legends as Sources of widespread Idioms: Toward a Lexikon of Common Figurative Units
Folk Narratives and Legends as Sources of widespread Idioms: Toward a Lexikon of Common Figurative Units

Summary/Abstract: The subject matter of this article is widespread idioms originating from folk tales and old legends that once were elements of the folklore of various European language communities but later fell into oblivion. The motifs of these tales survived in currently known idioms of many languages of Europe and beyond and thus contribute to constituting a part of the Lexicon of Common Figurative Units.

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