found: Simpson, J. A dictionary of English folklore, via Oxford reference online, Dec. 16, 2012(memorates: A technical term for narratives describing how the speaker personally encountered a supernatural being or experienced a paranormal event, which he/she interpreted in terms of traditional beliefs. Some scholars, but not all, extend the term to cover those where it is a close relative or friend of the speaker who had the experience.)
found: Greenwood encyclopedia of folktales and fairy tales, 2008:v. 2, p. 615 (Swedish folklorist Carl Wilhelm von Sydow coined the term "memorate" in 1934 to refer to a first-person story about a personal supernatural experience to distinguish it from what he called a "fabulate," a traditional folk story told in the third person that is well known and shared in and across communities, the legend being a prime example; currently, "memorate" is often generalized to refer to all personal experience narratives, not only to those about the supernatural, and so connects folk narratives to autobiography and memoir)
found: Warner, E. Introduction to Russian myths, 2002(Bylichki: Russian tales mainly about the lesser demigods and spirit-beings, wood demons, water nymphs, spirits of the dead, who populated the familiar universe of the Russian peasantry. This form of memorate, or tale about events that had supposedly taken place in real life and were "remembered" by the story-teller, shows deeply entrenched patterns of belief about the relationship between the natural and supernatural world in the traditional rural community)
found: Marshall, B. The Snow Maiden and other Russian tales, 2004(five bylichki (memorates) that tell of encounters with a supernatural being supposed to have been experienced by the narrator or someone known to the narrator)
found: LCSH, Oct. 22, 2014(Memorates. UF Memorats, BT Folk literature)
found: LCSH, Oct. 22, 2014(Bylichki. UF Byvalʹshchiny, BT Tales--Russia (Federation))
