Code of monuments of folklore of the peoples of Dagestan. Volume 2. Fairy tales

The real volume includes the best fairy tales of the folklore of the peoples of Dagestan: Avartsev, Agulov, Dargins, Kumykov, Laktsev, Lezgin, Rutulov, Tabasaranians, Tats. Both fairy tales actually have been selected, and the texts that have preserved the archaic sources of the genre or acquired features of later strata and illustrating the relationship with fairy tales about animals, household, etc. The publication presents fairy tales that are not only widely known in world folklore and their interesting options and versions, but also plots, characteristic only for Dagestan. The community and national specifics of Dagestan fairy tales are a vivid display of unity in the variety of culture of the peoples of multinational Dagestan. Most of the works in Russian are published for the first time.

For folklorists, literary scholars, ethnographers, culturologists, a wide circle of readers