THE STRUCTURE OF A FOLKLORE IMAGE OF THE FROG A.V. Zhuchkova, K.N. Galay Department of Russian and Foreign Literature Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia, Moscow We consider an animalistic image of a frog in fairy tales «Тhe Frog-Tsarevna» and «The Prince-frog». <...> Also we offer the psychological and philosophical interpretation of an image of a frog in fairy tales, considering the frog`s skin is a metaphor of egoism. <...> Animalistic images play an important role in mythology, folklore and literature. <...> Identification of the person and the animal genetically goes back to ancient magical rites. <...> We believe that the usage of animal images in ancient culture had not only hunting assignment, but served as a way of understanding the world and interact with it. <...> We believe that the use of Prince and Princess-the frog images in the Russian and German tales operates not as primarily a totemic function (attainment of power), but as moralcognitive function. <...> Animalistic literary images can be divided into several categories. <...> Zoomorphic image is enduing a character with traits of an animal. <...> Zoomorphic images allow to highlight specific features of character`s appearance, peculiarities of their behavior, intellectual and moral qualities. <...> Zoomorphic images are connotative and serve for the evaluation of a character. <...> Anthropomorphic images are presented in the folklore with several types: therianthropy or lycanthropy; warlockry or voodoo and shape-shiffting. <...> Therianthropy, lycanthropy (werewolf, werebear, werecat) is a transformation of a person into an animal as an adunation with this animal to a certain extent. <...> Shape-shiffting is a transformation of a character into animal or bird with the preservation of the personality (unlike lycanthropy). <...> Often used for transfer: «she turned into a white swan and flew away». 64 Zhuchkova A.V., Galay K.N. The Structure of a Folklore Image of the Frog The characters from fairy tales about Princess-the frog and Prince-the frog cannot be classified as zoomorphic images, as the comparison to the frog does not allow to understand the personalities better and does not evaluate them. <...> The frogs are not anthropomorphic images, although they have something in common. <...> It cannot be said that the characters turn into frogs in order to do evil deeds, that’s why it is not warlockry. <...> So the image of the frog is considered to be symbolic, but not only totemic. <...> At the same <...>