The Scarlet Flower. The fairy tale of the Pelagia keybox

As an appendix to "childhood, Bagrov-Vyuka", the fairy tale "Scarlet Flower" was printed. According to the author himself, for the first time he heard the plot of a "scarlet flower" from the Key of Pelagia: "This fairy tale, which I heard for several years more than a dozen times, because I really liked it, later I learned by heart and told it. "Scarlet Flower" is one of the many variations of the plot of the European fairy tale "Beauty and the Beast". This work teaches readers to value in a person not external beauty, but spiritual qualities, a rich inner world. The heroine of the fairy tale was able to see that behind the terrifying appearance of the beast is hidden a kind and loving heart, was able to love the Forest Beast, a miracle of the sea "and thereby destroying witchcraft spells.
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