Folk Signs in the Notes of Petro Ivanov

The article is oriented forward to folk notes of Petro Ivanov. It must be stressed that authentic folklore notes are of considerable interest to representative of various scientific fields. They are trying to explore the results of understanding folk life, environment etc. The article stresses that Ivanov's scientific heritage represents folklore of the territory of Kupyanshchyna of the 19th – 20th centuries. Over a long period he recorded folk materials of the one small territory. His records demonstrate the domination of traditions of Ukrainian culture. He showed the household and spiritual life of the population of the investigated territory. However, fixed materials turned out to be greater even in comparison with the collections at that time. Folklorist used the methodology of natural sciences. He fixed all the existing texts and not only ideal from the editor's point of view. The emphasis has been placed on significant part of his notes represented by folk signs of this territory. These are the largest volumes of Peter Ivanov's published materials. Fixed folklore materials show the dominance of dualistic worldview of that time peasantry. Folklore records emphasize the peculiarity of the perception of the environment, life, social life, mythology. Separately, it is worth emphasizing the originality of certain works that are not inherent in the folklore of other territories. The material investigated demonstrates that the records of Petrо Ivanov about the fate are authentic and do not have similarly published folk collections. Folklorist discovered a certain identity of the images of the fate, the house and the soul of man in folk views. In general this analysis shows that Ivanov's notes of folk signs give opportunity to modern researchers to obtain important information about cognition, demonstrate the popularity of this genre in the 19th century. To summarize it is worth emphasizing on originality of certain texts that are not inherent in the folklore of other territories

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