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The article examines the possibilities of the ethnopedagogic impact of the folklore word. Folk aphorisms, including proverbs, sayings, well-wishes, curses, oaths and other brief didactic maxims of the mountain peoples of the North Caucasus, are presented as folklore texts that have a great educational value. They also carry a priceless idea expressing the logic of common sense and expedient interpersonal communication which is an immanent element of socialization. Moreover, such edifying texts are a means of intergenerational transmission of ethno-cultural spiritual values, a form of storing and transmitting ethnic ideas and instructions from generation to generation. The range of pedagogical effects of the aphoristic genres of North Caucasian folklore presented in this work is very wide: aphorisms can take the form of a situational persuasion, examples to follow, demands, orders, explanations, wishes, blessings, spells, requests, advice, hints, expressions of approval, reproach, prohibition, threats, curses. As a rule, situations in which the aphorism is actualized presuppose the presence of accompanying emotions among the educators involved in the communication. They range from the positive ones (praise, encouragement) through neutral ones to negatively colored ones (threat, curse). Unlike some other folklore genres, folk aphoristic sayings are still actively used in the speech of contemporaries as a layer of oral folk poetry aimed at shaping the desired character traits, preferences and goals for each individual and the people as a whole.