The world of Russian folklore is beautiful, bizarre and diverse. Saints, sinners, people, and inhumans get along in it. For each life occasion, there are genres that reflect the centuries-old experience of our ancestors. Epics and legends are among the most interesting and little familiar to non-specialists genres of folk mischievous prose. Bylinka - a story about demonological characters, such as goblin, brownie, mermaid. The legend, in which the holy saints, the Mother of God, the angels of the Lord, act together with man, enshrines Christian views, more precisely, their folk version.