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In the original Jungle Book, Bagheera is a male character. Russian translators changed the gender of Bagheera, most like...
09/11/2020

In the original Jungle Book, Bagheera is a male character. Russian translators changed the gender of Bagheera, most likely because the word "panther" is feminine. The same transformation took place with another character of Kipling: the cat became, in the Russian translation, "A cat that walks by itself."

In the German city of Schwalm, where the Brothers Grimm wrote their story about Little Red Riding Hood, there is a monum...
07/11/2020

In the German city of Schwalm, where the Brothers Grimm wrote their story about Little Red Riding Hood, there is a monument to Little Red Riding Hood and the Gray Wolf. There is also a very interesting tradition here: all the girls wear red hats for the holidays, and the boys wear wolf masks.

The basis for Pushkin's "The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish" was the fairy tale "The Fisherman and His Wife" by the ...
05/11/2020

The basis for Pushkin's "The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish" was the fairy tale "The Fisherman and His Wife" by the brothers Grimm.

A fairy tale is a special literary genre, a story that unfolds in a timeless and extraspatial dimension.
03/11/2020

A fairy tale is a special literary genre, a story that unfolds in a timeless and extraspatial dimension.

Everyone knows the fairy tale "The Wolf and the Seven Kids", and the Romanians have their own analogue "The Goat and the...
30/10/2020

Everyone knows the fairy tale "The Wolf and the Seven Kids", and the Romanians have their own analogue "The Goat and the Three Kids". And when Russia and Romania shot together the film-fairy tale "Mama" based on this fairy tale, they took the average number of kids, that is, five.

We also know little about their authors in those ancient times. Most likely, the tales were composed by the very same pe...
27/10/2020

We also know little about their authors in those ancient times. Most likely, the tales were composed by the very same peasants and shepherds who often acted as the main characters of the story.

There is an English folk tale in which the main character is named Johnny Donut. This is an analogue of the Russian Kolo...
23/10/2020

There is an English folk tale in which the main character is named Johnny Donut. This is an analogue of the Russian Kolobok. And the most common Kolobok's "colleague" can be called the Gingerbread Man from the USA.

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