Верования и предания русского народа

Each nation that has managed to live at least a thousand years, preserving its own essence, creates its own faith, its ideals, its own rules and principles of life and expresses them in symbols, images and concepts. All this is called world outlook, world perception, peacemaking of this people. The Russian people, formed from East Slavic tribes and three peoples - Great Russians, Little Russians and Belarusians, lived a long, complex and difficult, at some moments tragic, but fruitful life. He created the greatest state. He created great science and great culture. He touched with his thought the secrets of nature, and the secrets of the soul, and the inaccessible secrets of the root causes of being. And all this was embodied in himself, in his national character, reflecting his unique life with all the great and small deeds inherent in this life, exploits, suffering, successes and losses, victories and defeats, faith and beliefs, legends and legends, customs and beliefs. and even superstitions, with the great insights of his geniuses, with the labors of the hands of his tillers, the courage of his warriors, the paintings of his artists, the creations of his famous poets and the unknown creators of epics, fairy tales and proverbs.