Abstract:

In the study we focused on identification of shifts and themes, expressions and semantics in the subject of magical transformation, as its firmly established in classification of folk tales by Aarne-Thompson-Uther 425C Beauty and the Beast, in author literary fairy tale by F. Hrubín and its following film adaptation by J. Herz, as well as between these two works arcs, which represent mentioned tale type in original, developmental and canonical form, on the background of broader cultural and anthropological relations, which are both socially and historically linked with this motif.

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