Ознаки деяких дитячих ігор із Македонії та їхня збереженість із минулого й дотепер

Abstract

Starting from the former classification of games in which the children's games belong to as a symbol of the fight against death, against natural and adversary forces, embodied in the overall evil, but at the same time as a model through which life and death are being imitated with the aim the system to be established, these pages shall disclose only a few of the children's games and toys from the rich Macedonian folk material, presented according to the age and in the frames of the annual cycle of holidays and the number of the performers. The objective is the same to be introduced to the wider circle of readers, since the Macedonian children's games are a part of the mutual world inheritance and as such may serve as basis for comparison with other people's similar children's games.