Question: Dear Teacher! For a very long time I have been trying to find an answer to a childish, but adult question: who, when and in what era introduced such characters as "Emelya the Fool", "Ivan the Fool" into Russian folk tales? Why exactly Russian Ivan was called a fool? After all, in no fairy tale of the world, except for ours, Slavic, there is no concept of "Ivan the Fool". Through the centuries and millennia have come ...