The black birch legend. Provoking folklore storylines of mansi people

This article arose as a result of the author’s arrangement which turned mansi people prose into poetic form. This development is devoted to the analysis of the black birch myth. Repeating collisions are discussed in detail in this study. Main topic by this article is identification of archetypal indicators in the space of myth based on stable collision comparative analysis. Considered as basic concept of the inciting incident. For ease of interpretation mythological text about black birch given in prose version and partly in poetic form. Research methodology made it possible to take into account a small Ugric group mentality features. The author suggest the concept of “mythological product” instead of a conditional term “Hungarian folklore”. The text analyzes the prose of the storyteller Konkova — grandma Anne.