Abstract
The study provides comparison between Shio Aragvispireli’s novelette “We Have Buried Dad!..” and Vazha-Pshavela’s story “Cholera Helped Me”. While both works were written in the same period (1892), the authors provided different descriptions of the villages depressed by the pandemics: while Shio Aragvispireli’s novelette is very tragic, Vazha described with humor.
Aragvispireli’s novelette “We Live!..” was written when cholera epidemics was ended in Georgia. This allowed the author to look more lightly the people scared with epidemics, thinking about every illness that this was cholera.
The work considers the folklore materials collected by Shio Aragvispireli, in particular, the spells for the purpose of dealing with the infectious diseases.