Abstract
Diverse religions and different historical situations have influenced the formation of the Turkicfolklore. Hence, the reflections of Manichaeism, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism and Shamanism can be found in themajority of the Turkic folklore units. The periods of formation of the old Turkic written literature, old Uyghurwriting system, which was used after the runic Orkhon scripts, also had a great impact on the formation of somefolklore units. In this paper, the researchers revealed the features of the Turkic folklore units, considering thereligious background, historical background and the highly popular old Uyghur scripts, “Huastuanift” and the“Golden Light Sutra” The creation of the story-plots and the reasons of their creation and popularity wereanalyzed. The researchers reviewed the history of the creation and the transformation of some religious charactersand mythical heroes present in the folklores.