Antique fairy tales, Lifshitz-Artemyeva G.M.

The collection included the author’s fairy tales of Joseph Koshin, the story of Galina Artemyeva and the fairy tales recorded by the German writer of the 17th century Paul Praetorius. The idea of ​​creating a book came to its compiler Galina Artemyeva in Prague, while honoring the release of her other book “A Great Collection of Traditions, Myths, Tales of the Western Slavs”. their fairy tales. They were extremely popular among several generations of Czech readers. In Russia, these fairy tales are published for the first time. “Student in anticipation of a miracle, or life in the house of Dr. Faust” - the author’s story of the compiler, G.M. Artemyeva, it is based on the Old Proopper legends and legends about the famous Dr. Faust and the fate of his house. The third section of the collection is occupied by fairy tales about the spirit of the Ryubetsal Mountains, collected by Paul Poli.

Tales of stupid gonza (there are a great many of them in the Czech Republic) are akin to our fairy tales about Ivan Durachka, will be interesting and understandable to young readers. But there are completely adult fairy tales, for example, about a treacherous sister who loved the robber and acted against her brother, who did everything for her; And about the followed punishment for the sister, punishment is terrible. Lovers of entertaining children's fairy tales, and those who seek in works of folklore, instructive instructions based on centuries of experience, and adherents of the horror - stories filled with mystical horror will receive pleasure from reading “antique fairy tales”.