Gutanka -. a short genre of oral folk creativity. It is a two-member expression composed of a question and answer. Today he serves for fun, but in the past, besides fun, she also had a pedagogical office, and in the even more distant past, she had a ritual and initiation character. That he had a reap character confirming the fact that he was told in a certain time and in certain activities, and that there was an initiation character confirming the fact that the boy and the girl, only after a certain number of riddles have been considered, they were considered mature individuals who can form a home and family . It may refer to objects and phenomena from the immediate human environment, the parts of the human body, the tools for work, etc.: short thickness of all Gaz saw (threshold); Chicho styles, a string PI-Ska, far heard (Gaddy); S “In the house burned, and the house remained (Lule); Goal is, and the whole world dresses (pin). In addition to its universal dimension, it is susceptible to influences and modification by the local environment. Can also appear in the form of giant-proverb: bones will not, bones break (language). Lit.: Dragica Bozhinova, the Lord – God in the paremics of some Balkan peoples, “Macedonian folklore”, Jenviv / 48, Skopje, 1991, 31-39; Bone Velichkovski, short genres and children’s folklore in Kumanovo and Kumanovo, folklore and ethnology in Kumanovo and Kumanovo, Skopje – Kumanovo, 2000, 255-289. B. C.
Original article in Macedonian language Cyrillic alphabet
Кириличен напис ГАТАНКА