Формули в народних казках

Abstract

In Macedonia live different ethnic groups with different religions. These communities still have a living folk culture as: folk songs, folk tales, beliefs, customs… which means that through these folk materials all ethnic groups realize their individual and collective norms and values which play a major part in their social and cultural communications, and in that way they form their specific attitudes and ideologies. My research work was carried out in several regions where sufficient representatives of different ethnic groups live together, where I was especially interested in: ethnic dialogue seen through the oral interpretation of folk tales as the act of socio-cultural interaction which refers to the expression of ethnic identity; the process of self-identification of the group members and their interpretation of the communicative situation or event; the influence of the other participants and the preferred languages of self-presentations. It would be possible to list a number of folktales where we can easily find the mutual narrative elements as a result of mutual influences among different ethnic group’s cultures. The present work presents the main esthetic narrative elements in the texts of the contemporary Macedonian, Turkish, Albanian, Vlach and Jipsy fairy tales. The most interesting variants of the initial, medial and final formulae is given in order to show the similarities and differences according their oral interpretations.