Sivka-Burka
Sign in to saveSivko-Burko () is a Russian fairy tale (skazka) collected by folklorist Alexandr Afanasyev in his three-volume compilation Russian Fairy Tales. The tale is a local form in Slavdom of tale type ATU 530, "The Princess on the Glass Mountain", wherein the hero has to jump higher and reach a tower or terem, instead of climbing up a steep and slippery mountain made entirely of glass.
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- Russian folktale
- Part of
- Russian folklore
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- Sivka-Burka
- language of work or name
- Russian
- Aarne–Thompson–Uther Tale Type Index
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Encyclopedic overview
13 sectionsContents
- Summary
- Analysis
- Tale type
- Motifs
- The hero's vigil at his father's grave
- The horse helper
- The princess in the terem
- Related tales
- Variants
- Russia
- Ukraine
- See also
- References
Sivko-Burko () is a Russian fairy tale (skazka) collected by folklorist Alexandr Afanasyev in his three-volume compilation Russian Fairy Tales. The tale is a local form in Slavdom of tale type ATU 530, "The Princess on the Glass Mountain", wherein the hero has to jump higher and reach a tower or terem, instead of climbing up a steep and slippery mountain made entirely of glass.
==Summary== A father has three sons, the youngest named Ivan the Fool, for he usually stays on the stove most of the time. On his deathbed, the man asks his sons to hold a vigil on his grave for three nights, each son on each night.
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