Душа в белорусской народной культуре

The article deals with the representation of the soul in mythological consciousness of the Belarusians, which is reflected in the folk culture texts. Research is based on the ethnolinguistic point of view. The ethnographic materials of the 19th – the beginning of the 20th centuries, modern studies of Belarusian folk culture and Belarusian dialect dictionaries are the factual basis of the research. The author proves that all pagan ideas in these texts are determined by the general paradigm of the Belarusian traditional culture, in which Christian and pagan principles coexist without an obvious priority.