Historical roots of the magical fairytale

The fundamental work of the great scientist, Russian philologist with world recognition of Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp "Historical roots of the fairy tale" is dedicated to the search for the origins of a fairy tale in historical reality. Having analyzed a huge amount of material, he came to the conclusion that "The reason for the unity of the fairy tale lies in the field of early history, the stage of development of human society, which is studied by ethnography and ethnology." That is, all the texts that have reached us from distant times are built on the same material (with small variations) and reflect the similar stages of the development of mankind as a whole. The author gives a large number of examples from folklore of different peoples of the world, the material is presented in sufficient detail and read with great interest.
The book "The historical roots of the fairy tale" logically continues "morphology of the fairy tale", according to V.Ya. Proppa, they "are, as it were ... two volumes of one big work. The second directly follows from the first. "