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Bylichka

Russian folklore story

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 10, 2024
Entity authorityQ46456 ↗
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Bylichka (pl. bylichki; in Russian: быличка) is a type of story in Russian folklore about an allegedly true event involving a meeting with spirits. In contrast to the byvalschina, here the story is conducted with an emphasis on the personal testimony of the narrator.

See also

Legend – Genre of storytelling that involves heroic humans

Urban legend – Form of modern folklore

References

Further reading

Adonyeva, Svetlana; Olson, Laura J. (2011). "Interpreting the Past, Postulating the Future: Memorate as Plot and Script among Rural Russian Women". Journal of Folklore Research. 48 (2): 133–166. doi:10.2979/jfolkrese.48.2.133. ISSN 0737-7037. This article focuses upon the oral prose genre known in Russian as bylichka ...

Pomerantseva, E. V. (1975).

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This entry incorporates text from “Bylichka” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.