„Żur, nie żur, lepszy Rusin niż Mazur”. Podolscy Mazurzy w ukraińskim folklorze
“Żur, not Żur, Better a Rusin than a Mazur”. Podolia’s Mazurians in Ukrainian Folklore

Summary/Abstract: Mazurians have lived in Podolia for a minimum of 300 years. For the most part, they are descendants of a peasant population belonging to Roman Catholic faith and speaking a Polish dialect that arrived in Podolia from central Poland.The main purpose of the article is o analyze the images of Podolia Mazurians in Ukrainian folklore, primarily folklore sources collected by researchers among the rural population from the second half of the nineteenth century to the early twentieth century. The article deals with mostly stereotypical images and fills a gap in knowledge regarding the identity and culture of this ethnographic group – it shows what characteristics Mazurians were attributed by their neighbors.

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