Social Aspects of the Image of the World in Russian Folklore: Georges Dumézil and the Frog Princess by Vladimir Petrukhin

“…The motif of the royal wedding is also connected with the fairy tale about the frog princess: the three royal sons must marry brides, who will be determined by fortune-telling archery. The arrows of the elder brothers fall into prestigious courts, where the princely/boyar and general/merchant daughters are waiting for them. …”
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Bone items from burial No. 9 of the cemetery near the Berezovaya Mountain (traceological analysis and the search for analogies) by Usachuk A.N., Kuptsova L.V.

“…The astragalus found in the burial could have been used as a fortune-telling/dice object. The functional purpose of the articular angle of the animal’s scapula has not been determined — no analogies have been found for it, though a possible circle of analogies has been outlined.…”
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