10.23067/tjokch..30.202211.179

This study aims to expand the field of folklore studies and suggest new research directions by finding and analyzing folklore elements such as customs, and religious elements of fairy tales. Traditional fairy tales have been created based on folk tales which is an important folklore material, and they have been changed and reborn to suit young readers. Considering that fairy tales are about the past and contain our own folklore elements, it can be a new area of ​​folklore research where we can find our roots, and also it can be a tool to inform children about the past easily and in a fun way. The traditional fairy tale analyzed with attention in this study is . Analyze the narrative structure of the relationship between the grandmother, the character who tries to save the grandmother by eating red bean porridge, and the tiger who tries to eat the grandmother. Furthermore, this study examines the meaning and role of the winter solstice (Dongji) and the red bean porridge through the above narrative structure analysis. In the past, making and eating the red bean porridge on the winter solstice meant getting rid of evil spirits, therefore the tiger in the story can be viewed as an evil spirit. The Korean folk belief reflected in this story, the residential religion especially the kitchen god (Jowang) can be found through the two elements which are the effort to expel the evil tiger who visited the grandmother's house and the kitchen as the background of the story. The residential gods of the residential religions pray for the well-being of the family by articulating each other without dividing their assigned positions and roles. Through the fact that she believed in the residential religion and the subject of the ritual was a woman, the grandmother who is the main character in the story can be considered to be a representative of all the residential gods. Based on these analyses, this story can be interpreted as the story of the residential gods who play each role under the leadership of their representative, the grandmother, working together to kill the evil tiger. The tiger is an animal with two meanings. It is an animal that drives away evil spirits and means great calamity or misfortune. The tiger in the story is both a bad misfortune and a wrong power. From the perspective of folklore that folklore is fantasy, this story can be seen as a story about the realization of fantasy. As a first step to finding out folklore elements contained in traditional fairy tales, this study suggested various possibilities of folklore research methods by examining the roles and meanings of the winter solstice, red bean porridge, and residential religion in the traditional fairy tales .