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The second edition of the volume inserts themes indispensable to literature, ethnology and folklore. The paper, gravitating around the apollonian view, relying on interpretation, comparative analytical perspective, diachronic and synchronic analysis, accentuates the triangular relation that is created among literature, ethnology and folklore. The study enhances certain levels: on the one hand, answers to the ontological questions specific to the human being's destiny are sought, knowledge and self-knowledge; on the other hand the universals of the fairy tale are considered, the role of consanguinity relations, of affinity, of alliance is emphasized, the important moments of the human life are revealed–birth, marriage, death–marked by the ritual praxis, ages of time, good and bad places, the mythicized human and the humanized myth are analyzed, and it is emphasized the impact of certain fixed form celebrations upon on people's mentality living in the ontological universe of the Romanian village.