Traditions in European fairy tales
UKRAINIAN: IVASEK TELESEK
The tale of Ivasek Telesek is one of the most read and one of the oldest Ukrainian folk
tale. Its origins are not clearly stated and it has no author . Probably the story was collected by Alexander Nikolayevich Afanasyev , the first collector of Russian fairy tales , and as it is known that Ukraine was under Russian rule for many years it is a large possibility that he included this fairy tale in his collection too.
(” The Snow Maiden- Origins”.
http://myths.e2bn.org/mythsandlegends/s ... aiden.html)
About the story: - summary
The fairy tale Ivasek Telesek tells the story of an old childless couple who desire for a child , thus the woman asks the man to go in the woods and cut a piece of wood bring it home and make a cradle. The man obeys.In the evening the woman put a branch of wood in the cradle and rocked it and sang lullabies until she fell asleep. In the morning in the cradle there was a boy and they named him Ivasek Telesek. The days passed by until the boy grew enough to ask his father to make him a golden boat with a silver oar. His father obeyed and thus Ivasek went fishing and came ashore only when his mother called for breakfast and for lunch. He was not to come ashore when anyone else called only when his mother did. In the forest , there lived a dragon (or a serpent in some versions) who heard the discussion and went to call for Ivasek to come ashore and eat him. It succeeds the second time after going to the blacksmith and made its voice more acute. The dragon took Ivasek to his house and wanted to eat him for dinner with his friends, only that Ivasek tricked Olenka, the dragon’s daughter, when she asked him to get into the oven. In this way Ivasek escapes and climbs in a maple tree near the dragon’s house only that he talks too much and when the dragons get out from the house to rest after a good meal, they ate Olenka instead of Ivasek , and they begin to gnaw the tree. Ivasek escapes when a small and feeble goose takes him on his back and takes him home. Here his parents were eating perujkiv( a traditional Ukrainian meal) and shared them between them and heard someone calling outside. But they looked outside only the third time an found out it was Ivasek who was asking for food. The goose is given food and drink an dis put millet under his wings for the road. The fairy tale ends with the couple and Ivasek watching the goose flying away.
Aarne- Tompson- Uther Classification
According to Aarne- Thompson- Uther classification of fairy tales , Ivasek Telesek is type 182, the helpful animal and the snake.
Morphological analysis:
According to Vladimir Propp’s morphology the tale is divided into 31 functions as follows:
INITIAL SITUATION: The story starts directly telling that there was an old couple who did not have children .
ABSENTATION: Ivasek leaves home and goes fishing.
INTERDICTION: Ivasek’s mother tells him not to come ashore when someone else calls him.
VIOLATION OF INTERDICTION: Ivasek hears the dragon calling and goes ashore even though his mother has already brought him food just before.
RECONNAISSANCE: -
DELIVERY: Ivasek’s mother has a special formula when she calls him ashore: “Ivasek- Telesek, my boy,/Come back here to enjoy/ Food and drink, ahoy/… Come closer, my boy, it’s me , your mother, I’ve brought some food for you!”
TRICKERY: The dragon goes to the blacksmith and asks him to thin its voice.
COMPLICITY: -
VILLAINY: The dragon kidnaps Ivasek and takes him to its home.
MEDIATION: -
BEGINNING COUNTER- ACTION: -
DEPARTURE: -
TESTING: -
HERO’S REACTION: - Ivasek asks Olenka to show him how to sit on the paddle and enter the oven.
ACQIUSITION: Ivasek sees from the top of the tree a flight of geese and asks them to take him home.
GIUDANCE: The front geese says to asks those in the middle to pick him up.
STRUGGLE: -
BRANDING: The dragons chase the little goose.
VICTORY: Even though the little goose who picked up Ivasek on his back was small and tired the dragons could not keep up with it and failed to catch it up.
RESOLUTION: -
RETURN: Ivasek returns home safe and sound.
PURSUIT: -
RESCUE: -
ARRIVAL: Ivasek comes back home and hears his parents eating , he asks for food too but they do not recognize who is calling outside, for Ivasek arrived home and waited outside, he did not enter the house.
UNFOUNDED CLAIMS: -
DIFFICULT TASK: -
SOLUTION: -
RECOGNITION: After the third call Ivasek’ s mother looks out the window and sees that it is Ivasek who is calling.
EXPOSURE: -
TRANSFIGURATION: -
PUNISHMENT: -
MARRIAGE:-
Characters:
The hero of the story is Ivasek- Telesek, meaning Ivasek the one who was rocked, his name is very popular in Ukraine being also the synonime for man or boy.
The villain: the dragon.
The magical helper: the little geese.
The false hero: -
Morality of the tale:
This story is one of the most ancient Ukrainian folk tale it is told for bedtime but it is also performed at the stage. It contains helpers: animals; it it very common in Ukrainian fairy tales to use an animal as a helper; it has a happy end usual in almost all fairy tales.
The moral of the tale is mainly addressed to the children : “ Do not trust the strangers!”
Sources :
http://myths.e2bn.org/mythsandlegends/s ... aiden.html (visited: 12/12/2016)
http://storinka-m.kiev.ua/article.php?id=837 (visited 13/ 12/ 2016)
Adam, Raisa, Kazki moho detenstva. RCR EDITORIAL GRUP, București, 2010
http://www.mftd.org/index.php?action=at ... 99(visited 14/ 12/ 2016)
http://homes.di.unimi.it/~alberti/Mm10/doc/propp.pdf (visited 13/ 12/ 2016)
STUDENT: ȚIFRAC(SEMENIUC) DIANA- MARUSIA
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