FOLK SUPERSTITIES RELATED TO ANIMALS (ON THE EXAMPLE OF KARAKALPAK FOLKLORE)

The article deals with the beliefs associated with animals in the Karakalpak folklore. Attention is also focused on the sources of origin of folk rituals, scientific opinions about their origin, expressed by scientists, are analyzed. From a scientific point of view, the author approaches the proof of the fact that various rituals used by people since ancient times, associated with their beliefs for certain circumstances of life, life, turn into superstition. Using examples, the author of the article shows that the Karakalpaks still have remnants of totemism in connection with some animals, which are exalted in a cult. Evidence is also given that Zoroastrian beliefs related to the cattle, birds are still preserved as superstitions