Zoophilologica (Dec 2017)

Мышь в фольклорной традиции восточных славян [ Myšʹ v folʹklornoj tradicii vostočnyh slavân]

  • Margarita Nadel‑Czerwińska

Journal volume & issue
no. 3
pp. 97 – 107

Abstract

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The article discusses the semantics of a number of metasigns (mouse, cat, tomcat, lynx etc.) of the folklore of Eastern Slavs in the mythological context of traditional beliefs and texts. Examples of proverbs, folk fortune telling and fairy tales are given as illustrations.

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