This collection was compiled on the idea of ​​the section for verbal folklore at the Institute of Folklore at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and is an expression of deep respect and gratitude to Stefana Stoykova - a prominent researcher of Bulgarian folklore and our folk traditions. The collection includes 30 articles and a detailed bibliography of Stefana Stoykova's works. It is very diverse both in content and in the applied research methods. By trying to varying degrees to enter into a dialogue with the ideas and developments of the jubilee, the authors actually present the diversity in Bulgarian humanities, the attractive combination of continuity and new searches in contemporary ethnology. Topics from the theory and history of folklore, the existence of folklore images, motifs, genres in a changing cultural context, contemporary folklore manifestations, issues of collective identity, observations on the culture and self-consciousness of Bulgarians abroad, folk religiosity, ethnolinguistic issues, etc. are examined.