Calendar holidays are notably mentioned more often in tale types which remain on the borderline between the fairy tale and the legend or the fairy tale and the religious tale. Folk calendar holidays occur in Estonian fairy tales relatively seldom most often these are holidays that occupy a significant place in the Estonian folk calendar (Christmas, St. The analysis relies on the digital corpus of Estonian fairy tales (5400 variants, created from the texts found in the Estonian Folklore Archives by the Fairy Tale Project of the Department of Estonian and Comparative Folklore, University of Tartu. It introduces some views presented in folklore studies about the concept of time in fairy tales and finds parallels with them in the Estonian context. The Category of Time in Fairy Tales: Searching for Folk Calendar Time in the Estonian Fairy Tale Corpusĭirectory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)įull Text Available The article examines how folk calendar holidays are represented in Estonian fairy tales.
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