Abstract
The collective oral creative work of children represented by various genres holds a significant place in contemporary urban folklore. Despite a considerable increase in interest in children's folklore in recent years, there has been far too little systematic recording and scientific study of this most interesting material. Not until 1970 was M. N. Mel'nikov's first book on children's folklore published in the postwar period. (1) There are many gaps in our knowledge of children's collective creative activity. In particular, the attention of researchers is usually attracted only by verse genres of children's folklore (counting poems [schitalki], teasing poems [draznilki], ditties [pesenki], etc.) whereas the most popular prose genre of scary stories has remained entirely outside the scholars' purview.
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