VARIABILITY OF AN EPISODE IN THE FAIRY TALE TRADITION OF THE KAMCHATKA NATIVES (BY THE MATERIAL OF THE VARIANTS OF A TALE ON HOW THE MICE TOBOGGANED)
The article by the material of the variants of the popular on Kamchatka tale on how the mice tobogganed examines the factors conditioning the variability of an episode of a tale. Enrichment of an episode with the figurative details, psychological comments, detailing the personages’ actions are conditioned by the local tradition, individual narrative manner of a narrator, his life experience, communicative situation.