ON THE ISSUE OF STUDYING THE GENETIC INTERRELATIONS OF GENRES OF FOLKLORE EPIC
The article examines the problem of mutual influence of epic genres of Crimean Tatar folklore. It has been established that a significant part of the Crimean Tatar destans contains fairy-tale motifs, and some almost coincide in content with fairy tales. Among such motives are the motive of the transformation of the central character into an animal, a clash with the patrons of the mountain, forest, water, pagan gods, mythical characters; the motive of the patron horse, the motive of the stepmother and stepdaughter (stepson). It is also established that fairy-tale motifs in love-romantic destans often become the main core of plot-compositional construction. Analytical reading of romantic and heroic destans allows us to see in them a creative transformation - saturation with realistic details, means of poetic expressiveness, free retelling, etc. Observations show that fairy-tale plots and images in destans function in an applicative form. They act as independent stories. Individual destans repeat the fairy tale not only with their content, but also with traditional formulas, fairy-tale beginnings. A detailed understanding and analysis of the folklore epic has shown that not all the destans and fairy tales listed by us are equivalent in their textual and other qualities. In some cases, the saturation of the fairy-tale text with epic motifs. In others - atypical for compositional narrative schemes of rethinking images, expansion, reduction of epic motives of the plot. Many observations of researchers about the combination of fantastic elements with fairy-tale motifs in the devotional creativity of the Crimean Tatar people are waiting for further detail and in-depth study.