ОСОБЛИВОСТІ ВЕРБАЛІЗАЦІЇ НАДЗВИЧАЙНИХ ІСТОТ В АНГЛІЙСЬКИХ КАЗКАХ / PECULIARITIES OF SUPERNATURAL CREATURE'S VERBALIZERS ENGLISH FAIRY-TALES

The article investigates the verbalization of supernatural creatures in English folk fairy tales within the framework of Possible Worlds Theory. Magical thinking is viewed as a cognitive mechanism that rationalizes the irrational and the unknown, giving rise to beliefs in the supernatural and, consequently, to mythological and fairy-tale narratives. Fairy tales are interpreted as alternative semantic worlds whose structure is linguistically instantiated and governed by specific ontological, axiological, and pragmatic rules. The study focuses on lexical units naming supernatural beings and treats them as structural components that shape the fictional world of the fairy tale. Using a multilevel methodological approach that combines semasiological, onomasiological, cognitive, and discourse-pragmatic analyses, the research examines English folk narratives, including Jack the Giant Killer and Jack and the Beanstalk. The findings demonstrate that the naming of supernatural creatures follows systematic ontosemantic patterns and directly correlates with their narrative roles, value orientation, and communicative behavior. It is argued that nomination is inseparable from narrative function, as supernatural beings are encoded as agents of conflict whose verbal actions contribute to the construction of power relations and the restoration of order within the fairy-tale world.