On the plots and motifs of the Slavic folkloric Bible in handwritten books. The second paper

The paper continues the series of the author’s publications devoted to the inquiry into the mechanisms of forming the folkloric versions of biblical legends. A comparison of bookish and folkloric forms of biblical narrations demonstrates different variants of relations between book-stories and folklore. The present paper considers examples of plots and motifs of legends of the Slavic Folk Bible which were transferred from the oral tradition into the hand-written book tradition.