Variation is a universal phenomenon permeating language, culture, and entire worldviews. This book analyses issues related to both specific and common variations in folklore and language as signifiers of culture and worldview. The articles here are dedicated to different genres and forms, including spoken and written language, dancing and singing, and festivities, and involve different aspects of variation. Variation is conceptualised here as the main basis of folklore dynamics and a major issue of typology. A significant part of the volume is dedicated to variations of myths and motifs, creat.

• TABLE OF CONTENTS
• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
• INTRODUCTION VARIATION MAKES THE WORLD
• CHAPTER ONE ETHNONYMS DENOTING ESTONIANS AND THEIR CONTEXTUAL MEANINGS IN LATGALIAN TEXTS ANTRA KJ"A VINSKA
• CHAPTER
• CHAPTER THREE THE VARIATIONS OF THE IMAGE OF THE TOWER OF BABEL AND THE ASSOCIATED ETIOLOGIES IN THE BELARUSIAN FOLK BIBLE ELENA
• CHAPTER FOUR RED IN FOLK SONGS : WORDS AND FORMULAE! TuU JAAGO
• CHAPTER FIVE COLOUR WORDS AND SYMBOLS IN THE SUBGENRES OF ESTONIAN RIDDLES! PIRET VOOLAID
• CHAPTER SIX COLOURS AND COLOUR NAMES IN SLOVENIAN RIDDLES! SASA BABIC
• CHAPTER SEVEN SAINT NICHOLAS ' DAY IN THE RUSSIAN METALLURGICAL SETTLEMENT OF KAzHYM, KOYGORODSKY DISTRICT, KOMI REpUBLIC: DESCR
• CHAPTER EIGHT STUDYING VARIABILITY IN FOLK DANCE BY USING VIDEO-BASED DANCE ANALYSIS AND EMBODIMENT METHOD: THE ESTONIAN EXPERIE
• CHAPTER NINE
• CONTRIBUTORS