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The Ethnology Notebooks. 2017, 3 (135), 690–730

UDK 398(477) : 001.8(049.3)

https://doi.org/10.15407/nz2017.03.690

MATERIALS TO FOLKLORE ENCYCLOPEDIA. 4th issue

Sokil Vasyl Vasyliovych, PHD in Philology, professor,

Head of the Department of Folklore Studies

at the Institute of Ethnology

of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

Svobody Avenue, 15, Lviv, 79000,Ukraine.

Contacts: Tel. (032) 2970157; e-mail: ina@mail.lviv.ua

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3164-1217

Abstract. In the following collection of materials for the «Encyclopedia of Ukrainian folklore» are presented articles on various aspects: personalities, mostly little¬known ones, folkloric characters (mythological, historical, and fabulous). Genres of oral literature, theoretical development, and traditional texts’ means of poetry are represented there. In addition, information about individual collections, magazines, and academic institu-tions engaged in the study of folklore is contained.

Keywords: folklore encyclopedia, personality, character, genre, edition.

Received 11.04.20117

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Daily bread baking of ukrainians in the south-western ethnographical region at the late XIX to early XXI cc.
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