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This publication is the work of ethnographer, folklorist, composer, musicologist and literary critic Filaret Kolesa. The subject of the study is Ukrainian folk literature, its emergence and development from pre-Christian times to the first half of the twentieth century. Various forms of folk art are examined: dumas, historical songs, fables, fairy tales, carols, shchedrivkas, anecdotes, riddles, plots, etc.