Paper short abstract:

Cinderella type constitutes a specific case regarding a dwelling presentation, even within female fairy-tales. The paper will present the symbolical meaning of the dwelling within the ethnographic context.

Paper long abstract:

If we take differentiation between male and female types of the fairy-tale as a starting point we can see that the position and the semantics of the dwelling in the genre can be determined by the protagonist 's gender. Moreover, the structure of the plot and the movement of the hero/heroine seem to be different in two types of fairy-tales. Cinderella type constitutes a specific case regarding a dwelling presentation, even within female fairy-tales. Our paper will be based on Serbian material which has some details understandable within ethnographic context. By providing both variants and the context we hope to reach the symbolical meaning of dwelling as presented in the texts.