PT Journal
AU Harits, WI
   AlFadlilah, M
TI Devil's Character and Christian Tradition in European Children's Stories
SO e-Pedagogium
PY 2021
BP 64
EP 71
VL 20
IS 4
DI 10.5507/epd.2020.012
DE European Fairy tales; Culture; tradition; devil's character.
AB European Fairy tales have spread out and affected other stories in the world. Since 17<sup>th</sup> century and 19<sup>th</sup> century when Perrault and Grimm released the literary fairy tales, it has been adapted in many versions with their own cultural characteristics. The devil is one of the characters in European tales and it is really unique due to its different perspectives in culture and tradition. This paper examines the character of the devil in three European fairy tales, Kate and the Devil, The Devil and Grandmother, and Billy Duff and the Devil. The focus of study is to probe the character of the devil from European culture and tradition from Pagan era to Christianity. To uncover the character of the devil in European children stories is elusive if it analyzes from the general/common perspective. Thus, the ethnography approach carries out to understand and analyze the devil from the European culture and tradition context. From the research, it is found that the devil in European fairy tales could be evil and kind character or somehow it could be both. The devil in the fairy tales live together with the human and they compete with the human otherwise they mostly get lost.
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