ZÁHADNÉ KRITÉRIUM SYNKRETICKOSTI FOLKLÓRU

The author attempts to charakterise changeable categories of folklore and folklorism in dependence of time. The folkloristic research in the complex societes complicated syncretic chraracter of the folklore material. Today is demanding to distinguish the peasant archaic folklore (of the turn of the 19th-20th century) from the historical influences of the waves of folklorism. The mass character, schematism, manipulation are considered as main negative aspects of the stage folklorism. The folkloristic research logicaly involved examination of the second existence of folklore and interference phenomena of a folklorisation.