In modern society depression it is accepted to consider the negative phenomenon, illness that it is necessary to prevent or treat. However many heroines of fairy-tales and legends on that the European culture is based absolutely consciously doom itself on a temporal defeat, on the pangs of hell, on convertible death. In the book of Симона Мацлиах-Ханох suggests to give a glance on depression as on a process, possessing important curative potential, as on saving medicine for the soul tired out in a deadlock. The heroes of fairy-tales and legends prompt to us the ways of exit from, it would seem, stalemates, teach to wise attitude toward pain and suffering.