A fairy tale immerses a person in a magical world full of fairytale heroes who perform feats in the name of justice and oppose the forces of evil. In this, the characters are helped by wonderful helpers and magic items. Who, for example, has not heard of a flying carpet or self-assembled tablecloths that are found in many Russian folk tales?
The plots of Russian folk tales can be divided into two large groups. In some, the protagonist is making an effort to get a magical item with miraculous powers. In other stories, the character of the fairy tale is given a magical means to accomplish a worthy goal, for example, to save a beloved kidnapped by a sorcerer, and then return home in triumph.
Self-assembled tablecloth
A wonderful tablecloth that can feed many people appears in a variety of fairy tales. To have a hearty meal, just wave the tablecloth and unfold it on the table or on the ground. After such a simple preparation, the hospitable tablecloth will immediately be lined with a wide variety of dishes. After the meal, the heroes just need to roll up the tablecloth along with the leftovers so that they disappear without a trace.
Researchers of folklore associate the image of a self-assembled tablecloth with the age-old dream of the people of constant abundance.
Magic carpet
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Found in Russian fairy tales and a wonderful vehicle in the form of a carpet that can fly. On a fabulous carpet, the heroes of the works go to distant countries to fight with Koschei, or return home from wanderings after tiring adventures.
Invisible hat
The heroes of fairy tales manage to accomplish a lot of good deeds using a wonderful headdress - an invisible hat. This magical object is found in Old Slavic fairy tales. To become invisible, it is not always enough for a hero to put on a magic hat. Sometimes he has to turn the headdress in a special way to hide from prying eyes.
By the way, the invisible hat from Slavic fairy tales had an interesting feature: as long as it is worn correctly, it looks like an ordinary headdress. But as soon as you turn it backwards, the spell took effect and the hero became invisible. In a word, our distant ancestors were well aware that invisibility is an unnatural, wrong state, fraught with great danger due to the ability to serve not only as protection, but also as a weapon, regardless of the goals set.
Walking Boots
Possessing "seven-league" boots, fairy-tale characters were able to cover great distances in the blink of an eye. Similar shoes are found in stories that have arisen in the countries of the East and Western Europe. Walking boots, as a rule, were kept in a locked casket and for the time being behaved calmly. But as soon as the hero put on magic shoes, he rushed to the goal with an incredible speed, which could well be the envy of some modern technical vehicles.