Българските фолклорни приказки – сюжети и преподаване в чуждоезикова среда
Bulgarian Folk Tales – Stories and Teaching in a Foreign Language Environment

Author(s): Iliana Chekova
Subject(s): Anthropology, Social Sciences, Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts, Education, Customs / Folklore, Fiction, Studies of Literature, Short Story, Bulgarian Literature, Preschool education, School education
Published by: Национално издателство за образование и наука „Аз-буки“
Keywords: Bulgarian fairy tales; plots; initiation; teaching in a foreign language environment; translations and bibliography in German
Summary/Abstract: The object of this analysis are several Bulgarian folk tales, with a focus on the characters’ functions, poetics as wel las encoded archaic believes and rituals. Special attention is paid to the male and female initiation in Bulgarian fairy tales. The article comments on the peculiarities of teaching Bulgarian fairy tales in a German-speaking environment, offers a bibliography with translations and scientific literature in German. Namely, it shows that these fairy tales’ plot is based on the ritual of initiation into adulthood described in W. Prop’s Historical Roots of a Magic Tale (1946) and D. Campbell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949).

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