STORY SUBJECT OF THE OLDEST APOCRYPHA OF WESTERN POLISSYA

Abstract

In the article author explores the subject-themed composition of folk apocryphal narratives of Western Polissya. Examined folklore present the initial process of joining Christian ideas in traditional outlook. The article examines the topical composition of some folk apocryphal narratives of Western Polissya. Folklore of religious content present initial process of adaptation to the new Christian teaching in traditional culture. Found that apocrypha of Western Polissya based
on general religious moral principles, but with a kind of folk accents. In these narratives are investigated the answers to the key questions about the human and the divine of world existence, is formed a kind of national-religious vision of the world.