RELIGIOUS MOTIFS IN THE GRIMMS’ FAIRY TALES

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Abstract

Gutenberg or Luther’s Bible  (1534) and the fairy tales of the brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, titled Kinder- und Hausmärchen  (Children’s and Household Tales, 1812), are included in the UNESCO World Heritage List (2005). In the process of literary reception, the collection of 210 fairy tales received the popular name of Grimms’ Fairy Tales, from the first publication in 1812, and in the international space and literary science and folkloristics also the acronym KHM (Kinder- und Hausmärchen). The Brothers Grimm were brought up in the spirit of the Protestant ethic and used religious motifs, motif fragments and blind motifs and values (e.g. purity, diligence, duty, honesty, order and care) in legends, sagas (Doctor Luther at the Wartburg, 1521) and fairy tales, e.g., in Cinderella (asceticism), Little Red Riding Hood (decency), Snow White (mastery), The Frog King (duty). Criticism of the Pope can also be found, namely in the fairy tale The Fisherman and His Wife, in which, among others, the topic of the male or female Pope is discussed.

Keywords: Grimm Brothers, fairy tale, Bible, folklore, ATU, motifs, values in fairy tales, etc.

Author Biography

Arburim Iseni, Faculty of Philology. University of Tetovo. Tetovo. North Macedonia.

Arburim Iseni is proud to be working as an English Morphology and Academic Writing Professor at the University of Tetova since 1999. He is an experienced editor of many international journals with a demonstrated history of working in the research industry. He is very skillful in Intercultural Communication, Translation, Foreign Languages, Lecturing, and Editing. He is a person with charisma, multidimensional, performance driven that likes challenges and thrives for responsibilities. He is skillful with the impatience, hardworking, motivator with deep knowledge about people, their personalities and what motivates them. He is also careful to details and able to develop new procedures and system abilities, in computer basis and manual basis.  He is also a strong media and communication professional. He has two PhDs, one in Applied Linguistics: Second Language Acquisition obtained from Southeast European University, Tetovo, North Macedonia (2013) and the second one in English Literature obtained from the Saints Cyril and Methodius University. Faculty of Philology “Blazhe Koneski”, Skopje (2018).

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2023-05-24

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Blažić, M. M., & Iseni, A. (2023). RELIGIOUS MOTIFS IN THE GRIMMS’ FAIRY TALES. ANGLISTICUM. Journal of the Association-Institute for English Language and American Studies, 12(4), pp.34–50. https://doi.org/10.58885/ijllis.v12i4.34mb

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Vol. 12 No. 4 (2023): Volume 12, Nr.4, April 2023

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