In the article contemporary natal narrative is studied from the perspective of the influence of mythological and story types of texts on it. Natal narrative being similar to mythological text confirms some norms of world outlook and behavior. Natal narrative, like many texts of the story type, is about extraordinary events in a woman’s life or about an exceptional situation, which has happened to her acquaintances. The heroine of the natal narrative crosses a definite semantic border, reasserting the status of her exceptional nature.
The concept of a doctor in the natal narratives shows ambivalent semantics. This semantics is formed under the influence of such factors as logic of the narrative, actantial positions in particular, which the concept of the doctor takes up in the natal narrative (assistant or antagonist); traditional folklore conceptualizations about people who possess “mysterious” knowledge; and the importance of the doctor to a modern human as a mediator between the patient and the disease.
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