On 12 March 2020, a lecture on “The legends and fairytales of ancient Bolgar” took place.
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On 12 March 2020, a staff member of the Department of Guided Tours Organization of Bolgar Museum-Reserve Gaifutdinova O.A. held a lecture on “The legends and fairytales of ancient Bolgar” for the students of extended-day group of Bolgar Comprehensive School №1.
During the lecture, the kids heard the legends and stories of Great Bolgar and learned the meaning and differences between these words – a legend and a fairytale.
A legend is a genre of folk art, in which real historical events are given in the form of symbolic generalization. Its heroes are ordinary people, historical persons and different supernatural beings. Of course, legends do not cover the entire history of the world, only separate chunks of time, and sometimes it can be a whole epoch.
Fairytales originally arose from myths. It is possible to say that a fairytale is a myth, which lost its sublimity and became more common and less realistic. Tales often lose specificity – there are not towns, countries and geographic identifiers in them, everything is completely abstract and uncertain, events took place long ago somewhere in the kingdom behind nine mountains. However, this genre more closely linked to a particular people because different magic rituals and customs of a concrete ethnos are often described in fairytales. A tale is a real life, real traditions and real people transported to magical, fictional conditions.
The students listened to the lecture with pleasure, and at the end of the lesson, received presents and took a group photo.
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