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Россия и Восток. К 300-летию СПбГУ. Материалы конгресса 647 Литература стран Азии и Африки. Чтения памяти профессора А. А. Долининой (1923–2017) house of sparrows”, “the house of nightingales”, “the ant palace”, “the mouse paradise”. Such places of habitat of animals and birds with a high degree of confidence can be considered a separate fairy-tale «world» with its own society and culture (coinciding, for the most part, with traditional Japanese ideas about the norms of decent behavior). Other creatures such as tengu, devils, terrible snakes from the ponds, water sprites kappa, lake maidens, sometimes prefer more secluded habitats: calm waters, deep forests, an island, etc. Therefore, the heroes of fairy tales may encounter them purely by accident. Devils, for example, often live in an ordinary hut in the depths of a forest in the mountains, and not alone, but with some old woman (or even an elderly couple), who is trying to dissuade the heroes from staying in their house for the night 1 . In the fairy tale “Grandfather Kobutori”, a tengu temple is mentioned, where the hero came by accident — he somehow crawled into a mouse hole after a pea rolled into it 2 . In fairy tales many creatures that are fantastic for a modern audience live in close proximity to ordinary people, who at times themselves can gain the ability to travel down under the water and rise to heaven. This only once again confirms the assumption that man, in his traditional ideas about the universe, did not separate his familiar world from the world of miracles. Rather, on the contrary — magic was an ordinary part of his daily life. Lyakhovich A. (SPbU, Saint-Petersburg) Modern society of Northern Nigeria in Abubakar Adam Ibrahim’s novel “Season of Crimson Blossoms” Recent studies address The Season of Crimson Flowers aiming to discuss a number of urgent issues. Okpala focuses on general richness of the novel which lies in its feminist engagement, its insight into the socio-cultural context of Northern Nigeria, Islamic and patriarchal society, strong characters who live with “grimness of an immense sense of loss, unresolved grief, filial abandonment, repressed emotions and sexual desires, unspeakable trauma, and societal disillusionment”. 3 Ile and Dauda reveal the deep-seated roots of that trauma, grief and societal disillusionment which lie in their opinion in “discriminatory and harmful traditions”. 4 1 Легенды и сказки древней Японии. Pp. 141, 155 2 Ibid, p. 32 3 Okpala Susan Adaora. Season of Crimson Blossoms. Abubakar Adam Ibrahim. Abuja: Cassava Republic, 2016. 313pp. ISBN 978–1-911115–00–7 // Tydskrif Vir Letterkunde. 2020. Vol. 57(2). P. 132–133. 4 Ile Onyebuchi James, Dauda Susan. The Cultural Realms and Their Implications for Development: A study of Abubakar Adam Ibrahim’s Season of Crimson Blossoms // Nile Journal of English Studies. 2016. Vol. 3. P. 11–15.