Ivan Tsarevich and Vasilisa the Beautiful, Baba Yaga and Kashchey the Immortal, swan geese, rejuvenating apples and the mysterious number "three" - all these are heroes and symbols of fairy tales familiar to us from childhood. The history of folklore texts is rooted in deep antiquity, and their meanings today seem absolutely obvious to us. And there seems to be no and cannot be any subtexts. But is it?