Slavic folklore encompasses the
folklore
Folklore is shared by a particular group of people; it encompasses the traditions common to that culture, subculture or group. This includes oral traditions such as Narrative, tales, legends, proverbs and jokes. They include material culture, r ...
of the
Slavic peoples
Slavs are the largest European ethnolinguistic group. They speak the various Slavic languages, belonging to the larger Balto-Slavic language, Balto-Slavic branch of the Indo-European languages. Slavs are geographically distributed throughout ...
from their earliest records until today. Folklorists have published a variety of works focused specifically on the topic over the years.
[See, for example, Kononenko 2007.]
See also
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Vladimir Propp
Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp (russian: Владимир Яковлевич Пропп; – 22 August 1970) was a Soviet folklorist and scholar who analysed the basic structural elements of Russian folk tales to identify their simplest irredu ...
, Russian folklorist who specialized in morphology
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Supernatural beings in Slavic religion
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Deities of Slavic religion
The Slavic paganism, pagan Slavs were polytheistic, which means that they worshipped many gods and goddesses. The gods of the Slavs are known primarily from a small number of chronicles and Letopis (genre), letopises, or not very accurate Christia ...
Notes
References
*Kononenko, Natalie O. 2007. ''Slavic Folklore: A Handbook''.
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Slavic Folk Tales(en)
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