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PhD (Philology), Vice Editor-in-chief of “Traditional Culture” — the Scholarly Almanac, State Republican Center of Russian Folklore of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation
This paper deals with the motif of punishment for greed and avarice, which appears widely in various genres of folklore. It is exemplified in motif’s functioning in prose belief narratives about hidden treasures, primarily. This motif of trial the character gets to go through and his punishment is actualized in these narratives due to the core component of the meaning of treasures in East Slavic folklore, namely that the treasure was believed to appear as a sort of diabolic temptation. Different types of stories, that represent the punishment motif, are identified as memorates, fabulates and belief legends, that are opposed to fairy tales as oral prose genre in Russian folklore scholarship. Motif representation removes the range of genre features of the given text from the “bylichka” (memorate) genre with its 1st person mode of narration, that indicates stories about wonderful treasures, to the border of the legendary and even fabulous prose.
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