It is a completed and developed version of the Doctor’s thesis of 1964. Folkloristic studies in the Caucasus are important not only as an integral part of the ethnographic study of the corresponding ethnic groups, but also in general theoretical context, since, according to some scholars, among the Caucasian peoples, mythological complexes belonging to different stages of the development of folklore tradition coexist; in other words, the most ancient forms are not supplanted with later ones. V. was a field folklorist, and in her book she relies largely on previously unknown folk texts and variations. The book is opened with a theoretical and historiographic introduction, then the hunting folk traditions of Georgia, the cycles of songs and legends about the deceased hunter, the hunting epic and ballads, the traditions of performing hunting poetry and the world of its imagery are considered. The Chapter VI is of special interest; it gives an attempt of typological and comparative analysis of the plot about the deceased hunter; there are appendices with folklore texts, organized to topics and genres. It is also interesting to reconstruct the plot about the deceased hunter as a story about the ritual-mystery death of the former lover of the Mistress of Hunt, because the hunter had violated some prohibitions; there are also an interpretation of animal helpers and hunting objects as zoomorphic incarnations of the deities of nature; and, finally, there is a story on the discovery of a miraculous child by the hunter; all these plots have some parallels in ancient Middle Eastern mythology.