Abstract
Modern world folklore interestingly explores the idea of the folk foundations of conspiracy theories. As a collective phenomenon, conspiracy theories are to some extent related to the history of thought and become interesting in order to study the psychological or emotional state of a nation. It is associated with folk genres: fairy tales, hunting epics, myths, ancient weather management rituals, charms as the result of collective creativity. There is a worldwide tendency to pay more attention to different types of treatments with charms, phytotherapy and other similar remedies than to medicine based on research, facts and experiences. Legends that are most interestingly considered by world folklorists as an interesting genre feature of the real and the fiction.