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Magic features in Pushkin’s “The Tale of the Golden Cockerel” include two magic objects: the Cockerel itself and the Queen of Shamakha. Exploring the role of this objects we reveal the points in the tale where these objects acts and how these points correspond in the original text and in two verse translations made by a native English speaker and by a native Russian. While exploring 3 texts comparison of the verse structures and the lexical content was performed. A method of antonyms count was used for events discovering in 3 texts. Matching the top points on the graphs of antonyms one can discover which events are crucial for the composition and narration development. In the original text and in translations these points usually match.