Local features of the legend of Khoridoi in the folklore of the Buryats of Cisbaikalia (based on materials by S. P. Baldaev)

The article considers the local features of the legends of Khoridoi in the folklore tradition of the Baikal Buryats. The study is based on the records of legends made by S. P. Baldaev. Most of the texts stored in the Center for Oriental Manuscripts and Xylographs of Institute for Mongolian Buddhist and Tibetan Studies SB RAS are introduced into scientific circulation for the first time. We have singled out a number of aspects, which ascertain the local originality of the considered legends. The first aspect is related to the character series: in the folklore of the Baikal Buryats there are variants of a legend, where not a swan, but a goose appears as the fairy wife of Khoridoi. Differences are also found in what characters of Buryat mythology the wife is identified with: it can be the progenitor of the Mongols Alan-goa, the daughter of the Tengri Esege-Malan, or, which is typical for the Western Buryat tradition, the daughter of the Tengri Shara-Khasar. Local specificity can also manifest itself in the place of action of the legends, in the motifs, as well as in the intertextual connections of the legends of Khoridoi with folklore texts of other genres.