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lost their lives trying. Both of warnings were violated (the those rules apply to Uzbek folktales in the same manner as
third element). However, it should be noted that, within the they do to English, Russian, and other tales.
main storyline there is a short parallel story about the cruel
king's son – Bakhadu, who transforms into the main Mislabu is considered a fairy tale with a complex structure. It
differs from the traditional fairy tales by the presence of
character at the end of the story, and that short story also
several plots, and the cruel main hero, who is finally defeated
has a classical motif of Interdiction related to the king's son.
by his son, who never did anything heroic. But still the
He was warned not to open the last of the forty doors in the
castle he lived in, and not to look under the mat, that was on standard classifications match the storyline.
the floor in the room behind that door. As a conclusion it can be noted that the assumption that all
the fairy tales of different nation have common roots can be
The third element (Violation of interdiction), follows in all
three cases depicted above, and in the first two cases, with proven by classifying them and analyzing the outcomes.
They all meet the same criteria (in general) and have similar
the king involved, the villain appears – PeryYunuskhan (in
structural elements. Even quite "unusual" tale as Mislabu,
conformance with Propp's classification), but in the third
demonstrates features inherent in typical folktales of east
case, there is no villain, and the boy just falls in love with
Mislabu after seeing her picture under the mat. Elements and west. Analyzing fairy tales, Propp came to a conclusion
that there are only 31 elements (functions) in tales all over
from 4 to 7 (Reconnaissance, Delivery, Trickery and
the world. Keeping that in mind, along with the idea of the
Complicity) do not apply this tale, and the Element 8 - Lack
common origins of the fairy tales, a conclusion can be drawn
of something, here closely relates to Element 1 –
Absentation, since the king feels need for Mislabu. King's that the motifs can also be classified and structured to
simplify the research in this sphere.
desire to search for Mislabu personally, his route and the
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