За ориенталските приказки в българската фолклорна традиция
On Oriental Tales in Bulgarian Folk Tradition

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the author’s endeavour to revise the thesis about the oriental origin of Bulgarian folktales as attested in the comments to two folktale collections issued in the Federal Republic of Germany (1984) and in the German Democratic Republic (1987). Its main purpose is to prove, that our knowledge of oriental influence upon the tales of European peoples is still at a stage where no final conclusions could as yet be drawn. The arguments are based on more recent studies of the author, some of which he published in “Enzyklopädie des Märchens”, the fifth volume of the latter being completed in 1987. Some of the tale types discussed in the article are the ones that appear in the famous Arabic collection of “Thousand Nights and One Night” either directly, or within the group of additional texts, the original Arabic sources of which have not been discovered so far. In part, the author has in mind texts that became known to European literary circles through A. Galland’s translation in French of the “Thousand Nights and One Night” collection, made during 1704-1711. Concrete tale types are analysed while taking into consideration the complex trends of influence on the part of both the older strata of European folk tradition and Indian, Mongolian and Caucasian folktale tradition.

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