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Kolobok (Cyrillic: колобо́к) is the main character of an East Slavic national fairy tale with the same name, represented as a small yellow spherical being.

The fairy tale is prevalent in Slavic regions in a number of variations. A similar fairy tale with a pancake rolling off has also been recorded in German and Nordic regions. The plot is similar to The Gingerbread Man in English tradition. The Aarne-Thompson index classifies them in a common type 2025.

Because of its round shape, Kolobok Smiles is the name for the smiley emoticon theme in ICQ.

Etymology

Origin of word kolobok is not clear, and has several proposed versions:

connected with Proto-Slavic: *klǫbъ ("Something twisted, has a round form, similar to a ball ", "club");

has aperiance in Latvian: kalbaks ("a piece of bread ");

from Proto-Slavic: *kolo (" circle ", " wheel "), that is, "that which is round and rolling ";

from Greek: κόλλαβος ("kind of wheat bread, pie ");There are also many other versions.

Fairy tale

The Kolob - an old Russian round palt (based on the swedish food item of the same name ) suddenly comes to life and escapes from the home of granny and grandpa. The fairy tale 's plot describes Kolobok's repetitive meetings with various animals ( rabbit, wolf, and bear ) who intend to eat it, but Kolobok cunningly escapes. With each animal Kolobok sings a song in which he explains, "I got away from Grandmother, I got away from Grandfather, and I will certainly get away from you." The fox manages to catch and eat Kolobok through distracting him by praising his singing.

The fairy tale in the Czech language is named O Koblížkovi, where Koblížek is the main character.