Ildikó Boldizsár

ILDIKÓ BOLDIZSÁR was born in 1963 in Dunaújváros, Hungary. Between 1987 and 1993 she was a research fellow at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, doing research on fairy tales. She received her doctorate in folklore in 1999. She has worked for more than twenty years as an edi- tor, including editor-in-chief at Magvető Publishing House (2003–2008), where she published six fairy-tale anthologies of her own. She is currently working as a fairy-tale therapist, and runs the world’s first Fairytale Therapy Centre opened in the Hungarian village of Paloznak.

‘HE SET OFF TO TRY HIS LUCK’ – EXCERPT FROM FAIRY TALE THERAPY

When people start working with fairy tales in individual therapy or groups, they know very little about the tale itself – or indeed, about therelationshipexistingbetweenthemandthefairytale.They only see a story which may attract or repel them with elemental force, but they are unable to say why. Perhaps it is because they recognise themselves in the fairy tale’s protagonist. Or perhaps the conflict between the

2014.01.03.

SHAMANIC ELEMENTS IN HUNGARIAN FOLK TALES – AN EXCERPT FROM FAIRY TALE THERAPY

If we accept that the message of a tale cannot be treated independently of the world view underlying it, we may as well specify the particular world view in which Hungarian folk tales are rooted. We have every reason to believe that based on their motifs, Hungarian folk tales can

2013.11.03.

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