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Name: On the two cycles in the Folklore of Forest Yukaghirs (the problem of the preservation and transformation of plots) at the end of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st century

Authors: Prokopieva P.E.

Institute of Humanitarian Research and North Indigenous People Problems of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Yakutsk, Russian Federation

In the section Study of folklore

Abstract: In the past there were cycles about cannibal mythological old man and cunning hare in Forest Yukagir’s folklore. Fairy-tales about hare are comparatively well-preserved till nowadays. But stories about mythological old man where practically lost. In modern texts one can find some changes in details and descriptions of separate segments. But the main ideas and basical motives are kept.

Keywords: forest yukagirs, folklore, tradition, transformation

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