Author: Pavan Kumar Barod

Abstract: Folk culture is reverberating in the people of Rajasthan. The activities emerge from the very life of the masses. From gathering food to more sophisticated practices of religious, social and political life. Regional folk literatures are also one of the transporters of culture. This paper includes the outreached and unheard topic of Vagad region which has very diversified and unexplored field need to identified and recognized by several prestigious entity of academics and historians. Folklore of Vagad is unfathomable, encompassing the rich cultural heritage of legends, songs, customs, history, artifacts, music, herbal and myths etc. and is a marked with regularity and dynamism. It also includes the Scattered Genre of Vagad's folklore where proverbs and riddles are likely to be heard and situated in each and every person's tongue around the region. We will discuss the majority of sayings, riddles and idioms present in the vast and diversified area of Vagad which are many in numbers and have very little or can say, still finding its glory to understand or looking for its inclusion in mainstreams of Modern ethnographic Literature.

Keywords: Vagad, Genre, Proverb, Oracy, Folc.

Article Info: Received: 01 Jun 2025; Received in revised form: 24 Jun 2025; Accepted: 01 Jul 2025; Available online: 05 Jul 2025

DOI: 10.22161/ijels.104.4