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Motifs In The Fairy Tale Of 'Vasilisa The Beautiful'
In the fairy tale of Vasilisa the Beautiful there are many motifs that could be seen in other fairy tales, one of the motifs in this fairy tale was magic. We see this introduced with the magical doll Vasilisa’s mother gave her before her death and the witch grandmother Baba Yaga. Both of these magic motifs helped Vasilisa ultimately in her journey and helped her in achieving justice from all her suffering created by her step-mother and step-sisters. Other ideas and images that are seen in other fairy tales and in Vasilisa the Beautiful is the widower father, in which in Tam and Cam and in Hansel and Gretel both include widower fathers.
One of the reasons why widower fathers were included in many fairy tales was, since in the times
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