Dawn, Midnight and Twilight

Dawn, Twilight and Midnight
Folk tale
NameDawn, Twilight and Midnight
Aarne–Thompson groupingATU 301, "The Three Stolen Princesses"
RegionRussia
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Dawn, Twilight and Midnight or Dawn, Evening, and Midnight[1] (Russian: Зорька,[a] Вечорка и Полуночка, romanized: Zorka, Vechorka i Polunochka) is a Russian fairy tale collected by Russian folklorist Alexander Afanasyev and published in his compilation Russian Fairy Tales as number 140. The tale was translated by Jeremiah Curtin and published in Fairy Tales of Eastern Europe.[3]

It is classified in the Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index as tale type ATU 301, "The Three Stolen Princesses".[4] This type refers to a set of stories where three heroes (or three brothers) approach a cave or hollow and send one of them down to rescue three captured princesses.

  1. ^ Haney, Jack V., ed. (2014). "Dawn, Evening, and Midnight". The Complete Folktales of A. N. Afanas'ev. University Press of Mississippi. pp. 317–320. ISBN 978-1-62846-093-3. JSTOR j.ctt9qhm7n.90.
  2. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008). Etymological dictionary of the Slavic inherited lexicon. Leiden: Brill. pp. 541, 548. ISBN 978-90-474-2816-9.
  3. ^ Curtin, Jeremiah. Fairy Tales of Eastern Europe. New York, McBride, Nast & Company. 1914. pp. 15-23. [1]
  4. ^ Haney, Jack V., ed. (2014). "Commentaries". The Complete Folktales of A. N. Afanas'ev. University Press of Mississippi. pp. 491–510 [505]. ISBN 978-1-62846-093-3. JSTOR j.ctt9qhm7n.115.


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