2019/11/23 by Marianna Čechová, Simona Klimková · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · #Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies #Themes in Literature Analysis
paper · doi:10.13128/studi_slavis-7474
openalex publication_date 2019/11/23 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/26
The paper seeks to provide a thematological analysis of folk tale types 461 and 930 (“protected by fate”) and to identify their thematic and motivic intersections of intercultural validity in terms of existential semiotics within the comparative frame of European and Asian literary traditions. The invariant semanteme of all mentioned myths, fairy tales or legends resides in the unsuccessful endeavour of a high-ranking, powerful man to kill a person predestined to become his successor. In many cases, the storyline of this thousand year-old motif also includes well-known biblical motifs, such as, massacre of the innocents, a heavenly sign and fulfilment of the prophecy.