Legends
Ukraine is the country of folklore and legends. The central place in the Ukrainian legends is occupied by a willow and a guelder-rose symbolizing power and poetry of the state, its national spirit and traditions.
Ukraine is the country of folklore and legends. The central place in the Ukrainian legends is occupied by a willow and a guelder-rose symbolizing power and poetry of the state, its national spirit and traditions.
Not without reason one of the most popular and ancient sayings says: «Without a willow and the guelder-rose is no Ukraine».
There is a set of legends and stories, in which image of a guelder-rose and willow отожествляется with image of the beautiful Ukrainian girl who has appeared in certain vital circumstances.
«The girl the Guelder-rose picked berries in the wood and suddenly saw that enemies - Tatars go to the village. She ran to the village and warned fellows villager. Cossacks safely fought, but was enemies many times more - burned the village, and the Guelder-rose - the girl beauty in captivity took. That warned the village, beheaded it, and the wonderful bush grew on that place, in honor of a name of the girl the Guelder-rose named.
People love and remember the Guelder-rose, and the guelder-rose became a peculiar instruction about the native earth, oberegy Ukrainian.»
Since emergence of pioneer settlements ceremonies, traditions register in territories of modern Ukraine and beliefs of the civilizations which have gone to centuries. They tell us about how our ancestors saw this world that them disturbed and that attracted that pleased, and that a scarecrow.
And though it is impossible to call legends the authentic description of the history, many things described in them, give us a bright picture of the past.
