A TALE ABOUT THE SMALLPOX (THE NGANASAN NARRATIVE FOLKLORE ABOUT DISEASES AND EPIDEMICS)
The narrative folklore of Nganasan (historical legends, mythological stories, fairy tales) contains a lot of information about diseases and epidemics that existed among the peoples of Taimyr in the historical past. The author analyzes the traditional ideas of Nganasan about diseases that were fixed in the folklore texts. The present research is based on the publications by B.O. Dolgikh, A.A. Popov, G.N. Gracheva, and author’s field materials.