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The article is a short version of one of the sections of the future collective monograph on folk demonology of all Slavic peoples, which is currently being worked on by the staff of the Department of Etnolinguistics and Folklore of the Institute of Slavic Studies of Russian Academy of Sciences. The aim of the project is a systematic description according to a unified scheme of the entire circle of the most famous demonological images and the establishment of their regional specificity in order to obtain comparable data for further research on comparative Slavic demonology. This work is devoted to the Carpathian Ukrainian ethno-cultural tradition and is published in two parts. The first part considers the regional features of beliefs about the spirits of natural and domestics space, about characters genetically related to the souls of deceases people, about the personification of death, diseases, days of the week, good and bad human fate. In the second part, folk beliefs about the devil and about people with supernatural properties are analyzed. The main objective of the article is to determine the regional particularity of the Carpathian data against the background of the Ukrainian mythology

The article is a short version of one of chapter of the collective monograph on folk demonology of all Slavic peoples, which is currently being worked on by the staff of the Department of Ethnolinguistics and Folklore of the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The aim of the project is a systematic description according to a unified scheme of the entire rang of the most famous demonological images and the establishment of their regional specificity in order to obtain comparable data for further research on comparative Slavic mythology. In the first part of this article (published in the journal «Slavic Studies», 2022, no. ...), three major blocks of Carpathian demonology were considered: the category of spirits of the domestic and natural sphere; characters belonging to the group of «walking» dead, and personified images (death, diseases, days of the week). The second part is devoted to the analysis of the regional features of the Carpathian beliefs about devils, ghosts, «fears» and people with supernatural properties. In conclusion, the original features of the Carpatho-Ukrainian lower mythology that distinguish it from the East Slavic tradition are listed.

The traditional way of describing and researching national demonological systems is the character approach. The article attempts to substantiate another possibility of studying Slavic demonology – through the concept of a mythological motive. The motive is understood as a semantic predicate of demonological narratives of various kinds, the minimal meaningful unit of plot composition (including motives-actions, motives-situations, motives-descriptions etc.). The composition of motives in each mythological tradition is unique and can be used to understand the mentality of the people, their way of perception of the world and their attitude to the world. The article describes, with varying degree of detail, some of the motives characteristic of the Carpathian-Ukrainian demonology: motives "to scare a person", "to lead astray", telling fairy tales as a protective charm, substitution of babies by demons, motives of double-mindedness, gaining magical power against hail, a circular dance of forest demons and a number of others. Among them, there are world-known, all-Slavic, actually Carpathian-Ukrainian and also Carpathian-Balkan motives. An analysis of these, as well as of other motives, contained in mythological narratives from the collections of V. Hnatiuk, V. Shukhevych, A. Onyschuk and others, allows us to realize the specificity and uniqueness of the Carpathian Ukrainian tradition, and can also provide material for conclusions of an ethnogenetic nature.