THE CONCEPT OF FEMININE FATE IN IVAN FRANKOS FOLK THEORY

The article is devoted to the analysis of Ivan Franko's folk theory on the example of reconstruction of concept of feminine fate in folk culture of the Ukrainians. Ivan Franko, a poet, a writer, a historian, a Ukrainian 'literati' as one of the first in the Slavic humanities at the turn of XIX-XX centuries undertook the task of scientific description of folk phenomena from the standpoint of rationalism and comparative data, which present a rich system of mental concepts of the Ukrainians.