Słowa kluczowe: Narrative strategies, thought and literacy, the Great Divide, Voice, Verbalization, folk prose, Russian folklore, field material, oral personal stories, supernatural experience, communicative parameters, performance, polylogue form, communicative levels of folk narrative, narratology, narrator, narratee, narrative text, story, fabula, historiography, Thucydides, Sallust, authority, Hippocrates, orality, ancient medicine, pragmatics, communication, Philostratus, rhetoric, second sophistic, body language, interaction, public, performance, oratory, sophist, behavior, character, biography, social, deportment, strategies, dramatic, the religious Reformation, catechism, sermonizing, early modern Church, Cracow, Pastoral Epistles, myth, New Testament, orality, Paul of Tarsus, early Christianity, pożyczki komercyjne, starożytny Izrael, tradycja ustna, nokrî, monarchia, zysk, narrative schemata, storage and retrieval, narratology and comparative method, Olga Freidenberg’s “motif compass” method, Yvan Attal’s movie “Ils sont partout” (“They are everywhere”), memory, cognition, plot-gene and mental sketchpad, Elżbieta Drużbacka, biblia ludowa, stworzenie kobiety, ogon, facecja