SYMBOLS OF THE FAIRY TALE "THE OLD MAN AND THE WOLF" (FROM THE "HISTORY OF THE SYMBOLS OF SLAVIC MYTHOLOGY")

This report is part of a research work in the field of symbolism of Slavic mythology. Developments on this topic were repeatedly presented by the author at various conferences of past years [Zaporozhets 2020 a), b), c), d), e)]. Today we will continue to study the symbols of the figurative mythological struc-ture based on the fairy tale "The Old Man and the Wolf" in the processing of A.N. Tolstoy [Tolstoy 1992]. This fairy tale is a version of the fairy tale "Hut on the forest edge", which the author considered at a conference in 2020 [Zaporozhets 2020)]. In our report, we will carry out a comparative analysis of two versions of a fairy tale, and reveal new details of the characters' symbolism. The version of the tale interested the author with additional information, which introduced the missing elements into the studied area of mythology