ЕЛЕМЕНТИ СТАРЕ СРПСКЕ РЕЛИГИЈЕ У НАРОДНОЈ БАЈЦИ „ПЕПЕЉУГА“
ELEMENTS OF THE OLD SRPSKA RELIGION IN THE NATIONAL FAIRY "PEPELJUGA"

Summary/Abstract: National fairy tales and their particular motifs most often come from the distant past. In their sights, they preserved some of the ancient forms of the then convictions, social organization, institutions and rituals. The paper offers an interpretation of the folk fairy tale "Cinderella" which relies on the old, prehistoric religion, and from this point of view, the motives that were preserved in the fairy tale were analysed. Comparative analysis of the methodical apparatus in the readers of various publishers approved by the Ministry of Education will provide an insight into the extent to which such access to fairy tales is fostered through textbooks. The aim of the paper is to suggest a fairy tale interpretation that includes an old religion, pointing to the importance of knowing and understanding its phenomena in order to interpret the fairy tale adequately and to draw attention to the important material that the fairy tales preserved, which can serve to acquire and expand knowledge of one's own people.

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