Folk tales are not only entertaining plots. They preserve traditions, features of everyday life, and ideas about the world held by the peoples of the distant past. In this book you will meet unusual characters created by popular imagination: the Chukchi Beaded Master, the Nenets Ash Woman, the U y l t i n humpback Bёkkё, the Mansi One-Eyed Whirlwind, and many others. The edition includes rare and little-known tales of the peoples of Russia—Eskimos, Chukchi, Dolgans, Nenets, Uy l t i n s, Mansi, Nivkhs, Evenks, and Negidals. The texts were collected during folklore expeditions and prepared so that they are interesting to read for the widest range of readers. On the pages you will find QR codes: with them you can not only read the stories, but also listen to them—in Russian and in the original language, performed by folk storytellers.
This book contains additional material in the form of a PDF file, which you can download on the audiobooks page on the site after purchasing it.