Byvalschina

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Byvalschina (in Russian: Бывальщина) — in Russian folk art, a short oral story about a supernatural incident, a case that took place in reality, without focusing on the personal testimony of the narrator (in contrast to the bailichka, where the story is conducted on behalf of the "eyewitness"). It echoes the term "urban legend".

Byvalschina (in comparison with bailichka) is already closer to legends and fairy tales ("people say that...").^[1]

History[]

The terms "bailichka" and "byvalschina" became known among the people no later than in the XIX century. At the end of the XIX — beginning of the XX centuries, Dmitry Sadovnikov, Pyotr Efimenko, Nikolai Onchukov, Dmitry Zelenin, Boris and Yuri Sokolov, Irina Karnaukhova collected byvalshchines and bailichki.

A more complete study of the bailichki in the second half of the XX century. proposed a clear distinction between the terms "bailichka" and "byvalschina": "the term" bylichka " corresponds to the concept of superstitious memorat... From the byvalschina, tradition, that is, the plot... the bailichka is distinguished by ... formlessness, singularity, lack of community."^[2]

See also[]

• Bailichka

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