IDEA AND COMPOSITION ORIGINALITYOF THE KARACHAYEV-BALKAR TALES ABOUT ANIMALS
This article pays special attention to the Karachay-Balkar animalistic tales, as one of the poorly studied sections of the Karachay-Balkar oral folk art. The works of various scientifi c researchers are indicated, which consider intragenre, plotstyle features, as well as compositions of related genres of folklore, which were the basis for this analysis. Since fairy tales about animals are a tool for imparting knowledge to the younger generation, anthropomorphism in the studied texts is being transformed for easier perception of the laws of nature. This article provides a scientifi c analysis of the ideological and compositional peculiarities of the Karachay-Balkar animalistic works, since they have not been the subject of special study until now. The factors infl uencing the poetic style of the zoomorphic texts of Karachays and Balkars are determined: mythological ideas, beliefs about animals, the infl uence of the social environment, the desire to understand the natural principle. The paper analyzes and defi nes the motifs of Karachai and Balkar tales about animals that have not been previously studied from diff erent sources. Attention is focused on the presence of structural diff erences in the chain (cumulative) tale.