About fairy tales and folk wisdom

“Culture is the atmosphere that people create for their own survival” What are fairy tales talking about?       Time and longevity of antediluvian humanity. Many tales carry particles of ancient wisdom. The Moldovan "Tale of the Piglet" talks about the time when the pregnancy of women lasted more than three years and passed without birth pains, and dragons, basilisks, many-headed hydras and other monsters lived on the earth. It could be between 24 million and 70 thousand years, rather, even at the beginning of this period...

From early childhood, we are told tales. The child lives in a world of magic, fantasy, trying to understand where good is and where evil is. Fairy tales were formed so that they were thought over, comprehended and certain conclusions were drawn. Tales are all filled with metaphors, images. One must also be able to understand these metaphors. More often than not, we don’t know what is behind each image. Perhaps, thanks to this, the original that was laid down in them is preserved in fairy tales. Not understanding, people did not make their interpretations but conveyed everything as it was...

The great psychologist and philosopher Karl Jung said: a fairy tale is a code language, a cypher of a nation. And if she is stupid, then on purpose. Because it must be publicly available. There were countless tales. But only those that have passed the thorough test of time have reached us. Judge for yourself: if a fairy tale has been passed down for centuries by word of mouth, from generation to generation and almost in its original form, has reached us, people of the 21st century, it means that it carries a certain deep knowledge...

Well, I promised to continue the story of the Zmei Gorynych... (The beginning of the story about the meaning of fairy tales, read in previous publications) If Zmei Gorynych as a true superhero specifically tried to maintain secrecy, then he succeeded. What is its origin, from which regions he came to Russian land is still not known for certain. Various historians, archaeologists, ethnographers and other high foreheads put forward various versions, but the evidence base is poor for everyone, because Zmei did not leave evidence, and destroyed witnesses...

Let continue to talk about the meaning of Russian fairy tales. These are the secrets hidden in ordinary children's tales. It's time to re-read them again! Tale “Swan-geese" The main character of the fairy tale goes in search of her brother, who was taken to the forest by geese-swans. However, in fact, the girl does not go after her brother to the forest at all, but to the kingdom of the dead. Along the way, she encounters many symbols of life that can hold her in the world of the living: this is an apple tree, and an oven, and bread...

I continue to talk about the meaning of Russian fairy tales. Tale “Gingerbread Man”. What is the tale about: It is said in the tale that Grandma and Grandfather baked a Kolobok in the shape of a ball. But he did not stay at home and fled from Grandma and Grandfather. Along the path, he rolled, rolled, suddenly to meet him Swan, who wants to eat him. I didn’t eat it completely, but I bit it off. The gingerbread man rolled on. Rolled-rolled, and to meet him Raven, who wants to eat him. I didn’t eat at all, but I also plucked a piece with my beak...

That is what the vast majority of people think. And this phrase, to be frank, is not very pleasant either by ear or by visual perception. But everything will look a little different if we begin to understand what lies are. In the Slavic tradition, the word “lie” always meant superficial or incomplete truth. You can take, for example, two expressions: “Dirty swamp” and “Water covered with a veil of mud and mud.” The second statement is true, because fully true, and the first — false, because it tells the incomplete truth — a lie...

One of the characteristic components of the folklore of any country is the presence of fairy tales. And our country with you is no exception. You all probably remember how in childhood a parent or, for example, a grandmother, read you a bedtime story so that you would rather close your eyes and fall asleep. The calm and monotonous native voice, telling about something exciting before going to bed, acts truly calming and lulling. However, it will not be about the effect that reading fairy tales before...