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 tales, legends, proverbs and jokes. They include material culture, rangin ...
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, Russian folklorist who specialized in morphology
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Supernatural beings in Slavic religion
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Deities of Slavic religion
Notes
References
*Kononenko, Natalie O. 2007. ''Slavic Folklore: A Handbook''.
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Slavic Folk Tales(en)
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