Santaji College, Nagpur
Online published on 24 March, 2021.
Folklore is literature created from the masses. In this folklore, the emotions of life, happiness and sorrow, echoes in the minds of women are studied. Folklore is the literature expressed through childhood, in-laws, and memories of Maher, life with a husband, hardships and thoughts in daily life. Women have poured their whole soul into folk literature. Ovi is the oldest hobby of Maharashtra. Women's work area is limited to home, family. Dalta-dalta was formed on the caste. The sweetness of women's emotions began to descend into the genre of folklore. In a patriarchal society, women began to express their feelings through ovi. The sentiments of women have been beautifully invented in folk literature. Childhood, youth, marriage, world, children, in-laws, memories of Mahera, husband, love, all these things are discovered in folk literature. Her talent, portrayed in women's songs, is mainly from an agrarian society, from a united family. The restrictions imposed on a woman by a patriarchal society are reflected in her rites and folklore.