Pasichniuk I. The Poetry of Ukrainian Folk Omens.

The dissertation presents the first analysis of the bulk of Ukrainian omens, which allows to consider them a separate, independent genre of national folklore. The history of publications and investigations of omens in the Eastern-Slavonic folkloristics is traced back. The typology of these prognostic paremiological units, their syntactical features, artistic means of expressiveness, rythmic and intonation characteristics are investigated. The process of omen transformation into adjoining paremiological units (household recommendations, sayings, texts of magic acts, wishes, curses, prymovkas, fortunetelling paremiological units, riddles); the development of omen text into narrative forms as well as the ability of omens to go current in folk song lyrics are the evidences of great generative potentialities of prognostic expression.