„W siną dal, dokąd oczy poniosą…” – motyw wędrówki w baśniach polskich i węgierskich

The Journey Motif in the Polish and Hugarian Fairy Tales This article presents the comparative analysis of the journey motif in two Polish fairy tales and in the Hungarian one. Polish fairy tales are Siostra siedmiu kruków (The Sister of the Seven Ravens) by Janina Porazińska and Żelazne trzewiczki (The Iron Bootees) by Hanna Januszewska; the Hungarian one is Żelazny Laczy (Iron Laczy), which has no known author as it is the classic folk tale. The journey or peregrination motif is one of the most popular fairy tales motifs around the whole world. The journey in fairy tales and folk tales always has the symbolic meaning as well as the literal one and is the expression of the protagonist’s inner development. The purpose of the article is to show the symbolic meaning of the peregrinations and journeys in the fairy tales including the notion of the rite of passage (rites de passage) and elements od psychoanalisis.