The author reviewed K. Yu. Rakhno’s monograph «Bat’s Cry: Pottery Craft in the Folklore Heritage of the Ukrainians». The complex nature of the research and the interdisciplinary approach in covering the announced topic are emphasized. It is noted that the author of the monograph builds a holistic concept of the development of Ukrainian historiography of pottery folklore from the first mentions in chronicles and polemical treatises to the emergence of a full-fledged synthetic science of ceramics. The components of the author’s concept have been covered and analyzed: the first mentions of pottery in written sources, the period of collecting Ukrainian folklore, the period of comprehension of folklore data and their introduction into scientific circulation, the period of complex study of pottery as an ethnographic phenomenon with the emergence of relevant scientific schools, period of Soviet repression and levelling of the spiritual component of pottery as a phenomenon with the parallel continuation of studies in exile and in the Diaspora, the period of resumption of research in pottery folklore and the emergence of a comprehensive science of ceramics. The methodological component of the monograph, its prosopographical character, and introduction into scientific circulation of a number of statements, fundamentally new for domestic historiography, are emphasized.