Abstract
The article interprets certain problems dealing with family ballad – a folkloric genre which presents an indisputable interest and manifest itself as a generalized embodiment of the human experience. It reflects the human relation in accordance with the deep layers of popular mentality and offers certain patterns of cohabitation in human society. The picture of folkloric characterology deepens the field of familiar life, highlights life situations, reasons for wide circulation, patterns of thought and general-human values circumscribed in their fundamental aspect.