Sagas, epics, folk tales and legends, myths, legends and traditions - all components of the folklore. It also includes ballads, songs, ditties and sayings. These genres came to us from a distant time and tell in different forms about the life of our distant ancestors.
These components of folklore have similarities and differences.
What are the legends and tales? How do they differ? If we start from the root of the word “tradition”, then we can assume that this information was transmitted “by word of mouth”, and the real fact, certainly embellished with time, lies at the root of it. Therefore, they were popularly called "bulls" and "former people", thus confirming their reliability.
Features
In most cases, they are characterized by historical themes. What is the legendary heroic, mythical or legendary, reflects the following list:
- narration of a national hero;
- a story about a pagan deity;
- examples of religious asceticism underlying the legendary tradition, thus erasing the line between him and the legend.
Each ethnic group has its own examples of this folklore genre, which collectively creates a folk epos.
A vivid illustration of the question of what is tradition is the Tradition of the Flood. There is no doubt that there are real events that served as the basis for him, since among different peoples the legends about him coincide almost to the last detail.
It is characteristic that in the traditions not only the event is mentioned, but also the reasons that gave rise to it are given. A huge number of books composing the Holy Scriptures formed the basis for the creation of Christian doctrine and the emergence of church law.
Russian historical traditions are an inexhaustible source of information about mermaids, fairy-tale heroes, house, water and other pagan deities. All this inspired the Russian classics to create their ingenious works - “Ondine” by Zhukovsky, the tales of A. S. Pushkin, whose heroes are full of charm and cause compassion.
Now the legends of all the peoples of the world are published. We saw the light “Russian Traditions”, “Russian Traditions and Legends”, in which you can get acquainted with the attractive world of our ancestors.
Some sources draw a parallel between tradition and tradition. This is explained by the fact that both of them serve as a transmission, often verbally, from generation to generation of certain knowledge and teachings.
Traditions dedicated to the same person or event were combined in cycles that could more accurately describe the characteristics of the object being sung. They become a prerequisite for the emergence of sayings and proverbs. Other sources claim that in folk poetry, tradition is a certain type of legend, in which fiction differs from the fantasies of fairy tales and miracles of legends.
With any understanding of what tradition is, their reliability is not called into question. Based on their content, we can judge the real history of the people. Any event in the fate of the planet was reflected in the folk epos. According to some traditions that have reached us, you can make a picture of the ancient world.