Morfológia motívu figurálnej transformácie v príbehovej látke o sestre, ktorá hľadá svojich bratov zakliatych na zvieratá
Morphology of the Motif of Figural Transformation in the Subject of Stories about a Sister Seeking Her Brothers Turned into Animals

Summary/Abstract: The subject of the paper is transcultural comparison of Slovak and foreign-language stories based on the fairy-tale subject about a sister who seeks her brothers turned into animals. According to Aarne-Thompson-Uther´s international catalogue of folktale types, the fairy tales dealing with the subject in question fall into the central motif type 451 The Maiden Who Seeks Her Brothers. The paper places weight on morphology and iconization of the metamorphosis motif, which is an irreplaceable part of the invariant plot diagram of the fairy-tale subject in question with the aim of finding out what syuzhet and motif constellations include transformations of the characters involved and what (if anything at all) makes depiction of the metamorphosis motif in the Slovak variants of the fairy-tale subject being researched specific in comparison with the foreign equivalents. The sources are constituted by ten fairy tales from all over Slovakia – one authorized record by Pavel Dobšinský and regional versions from Nitra, Trnava, Považská Bystrica, Žilina, Žiar nad Hronom, Trebišov and Humenné, which are mostly compared with the sources from Slavic linguistic and cultural territories (Czech, Bulgarian and Ukrainian fairy tales). The research materials also include a fairy tale The Seven Ravens by the Brothers Grimm, which is in terms of reception one of the best-known European versions of the tale type in question. The variants from the non-Slavic cultural area include a Norwegian fairy tale The Twelve Wild Ducks and a Danish fairy tale The Twelve Ravens, which feature motif elements untypical of the Slavic linguistic and cultural territory in terms of the plot structure.

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