Vinko Moderndorfer (1894-1958) firstly published the
Carinthian folk tale Mojca Pokrajculja in 1924 in the collection National
Tales from Mežica Valley. In the next (extended) editions of the Carinthian
Folk Tales (1937, 1946, 1957 and 1972) he published similar tales Deklica
veka [The Girl is Crying] and Mojca Pokrajculja. Although both wellknown,
the place in the Slovenian Primary School Curriculum for 1 grade
(2011) has text Mojca Pokrajculja , which is also better known. On the
basis of the international classification (Uther 2004, 2011) Monika Kropej
(2012, 2015) suggested for this tale classification under the number ATU
283C*. The basic type can include the motifs of folktale types ATU 15
(The Theft of Food by Playing Godfather ), ATU 283B* (The House of the
Fly) and ATU 480A (Girl and Devil in a Strange House), and even the type
ATU 123 (The Wolf and the Kids) or ATU 333 (Little Red Riding Hood). In
literarure can be find intertextual reminiscences (Juvan 2000) with the
Grimm folktale Wedding of Mrs Fox (KHM 38, ATU 65 The She-Fax's
Suitors). Due to intertextuality Mojca Pokrajculja can be classified also as
Formula Tale or Chain Tale, based on the sequence of animals (chains
based of numbers, objects, animals, names, death, eating and other events).
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