On the lips of the Bezhta people: legends, fables, fairy tales and stories
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The section on legends contains two legends, “The Right Valuable Hand” and “The Secret Gorge”. The section on fairy tales includes fairy tales common for the Bezhta people, for all Dagestan and the North Caucasus, as well as world famous tales; most of the tales are magical tales and tales about animals. The section on stories includes mythological, historical, every day stories, as well as stories about robbers and raids, funny stories by Bezhta рeople, jokes, dialogues and monologues, parables from the “Gospel of Luke” and stories about Molla Nasruddin. The appendix of the monograph includes few Bezhta poems, as well as new additional material to the book “The Language, Folklore and Ethnography of the Bezhta people” and an explanatory dictionary.
