Demonology in Contemporary Ukraine: Folklore or "Postfolklore"?

Twentieth-century Ukrainian and Russian folkloristics sustained an early-nineteenth-century fallacy about the death and transformation of traditional, agricultural folklore. Based on this assumption of decline, contemporary Russian folklorists have suggested terms such as urbanized folklore, postfolklore, and anti-folklore to describe contemporary folk culture. This article presents evidence of the survival and flourishing of a number of traditional narrative forms and beliefs in contemporary Ukraine and argues that the addition of a "postfolklore" distinction to folkloristics is unnecessary.