МОТИВИ ВТРАТИ ВІНКА В УКРАЇНСЬКИХ НАРОДНИХ ПІСНЯХ ПРО КОХАННЯ

Ukrainian folk love songs as one of the most relevant genres have retained a lot of information about the norms of ethics and morals of the Ukrainian youth at the end of the XIX - early ХХ century. Particularly interesting are texts which contain information about the loss of maiden innocence, are reflected in the motifs of wreath loss. In folk love songs with the motifs of wreath loss, often are being used images-symbols of a wreath, braids, weed field, destiny. National aesthetics rarely judge girl who committed such a moral crime, but mostly sympathizes with her, uses the examples of such situations to warn young people from committing such offenses.