let’s go by first names, as in life, and this is nikita petrov, head of the laboratory of folklore in ronkhixt the russian academy of national economy and public administration, as well as an employee of the russian state university for the humanities, good afternoon niki. but he probably ceased to be perceived only as those same fairy tales, as epics, as songs. if it could be defined using modern words, i would say that it is words, actions, images that influence emotional behavior of people, and are spread in a very similar way to how oral folklore was spread, well, this is such a dangerous definition, because obscene vocabulary, for example, will also not be mentioned by night, somehow has an emotional impact. they live according to the principles of real folklore, but they live a little less, yes, that is, they burst into flames at this moment, on the wave of moral panic they exist for a certain time, then disappear into some oblivion. it is clear that this information, in general, in theory, well, it seems unreliable, yes, but at the same time , by spreading it, a person creates a certai