| Summary: | This article is about a widespread plot in which the rods and arrows easily break
apart, but it is impossible to break their bundle. The author compares this plot, recorded
in the Kalmyk fairy tale, with the plots of The Secret History of the Mongols, a collection
of annals of Rashid-ad-Din and a Japanese fairy tale. The author investigates in detail
the texts of the ancient fabulist writers Aesop and Babrius, which are considered to be
the most ancient and represent the source of the distribution of these stories throughout
Eurasia. The fixation of these plots in East Slavic fairy-tale folklore is noted, the author’s
texts of Leo Tolstoy based on Aesop’s fable are analyzed in detail.
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