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Children’s Games and the Fairy Tale

Summary/Abstract: The present paper aims to emphasize the fact that certain children’s games (Ileana and Fat Frumos) resemble some fairy tales (The Sleeping Beauty, written by Charles Perrault/Snow White, written by The Brothers Grimm), that the gibberish used by children also monopolized the fairy tales. The similitude accentuates the contamination, the Venn diagram pointing out resemblances and differences which allow the monitoring of the game as a game and that of the fairy tale. Some of the 31 functions, analyzed by Vladimir I. Propp, are also retrieved in the children’s games, the absence of some functions does not modify the distribution of the others. The song – game gets closer to the above fairy tales by functions, objects, actions and not by stereotype formulas, a solemn style and the existence of the performer.

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