FIELD OF CONCEPTS IN GERMAN FOLK TALES

Abstract

The article deals with the main text concepts of German folk tales (which primarily are oral tales recorded as a written texts about people meeting a supernatural force and conventions for such cases), relevant definitions by a number of prominent researchers are given, text concept types are described. As a conclusion, the author names the behavioral norms which help to survive in contact with the supernatural: obedience, conscience, cautiousness, modesty.