In archaic folkloric texts of Siberian peoples we come across a number of narrative devices that closely resemble those that can be found in modernist and postmodernist prose. In his efforts to be as faithful as possible, the performer of a folkloric text refers to someone from whom he has heard his story, or puts an intermediary between himself and the listeners. This can be the personified story itself (“the story went into an unknown direction”) or a hero from whose point of view the story is told. These devices make it possible to alternate points of view (inside and outside), to describe the past as something that is taking place in front of our eyes, or the future as something that has already happened.