ABOUT THE THEME OF HISTORICAL LEGENDS IN KARAKALPAK FOLKLORE

Legends, which include part of the folklore heritage, are one of the main genres of oral creativity of the Turkic peoples. In the world science of folklore and literary criticism, a large number of works have been published on the definition of theoretical descriptions of legends. As you know, one of the main genres of folk art is that historical events are preserved to a certain extent in legends, which creates some opportunities for us to understand and learn about our past history, our primordial national culture, our literature. It is known that in modern world folklore a structural-semantic concept is developing, which is aimed at identifying and classifying the specifics, genre features of folklore-epic genres, i.e. fairy tales, myths, legends, etc. features from all sides, is the basis for the classification of folklore genres, plot and motives. Therefore, in this article we have tried to describe the legends, one of the epic genres of folklore, and their idea-themes and content. The problems of dividing historical legends into thematic types in Karakalpak folklore are also determined