There are considered the issues of influence of the ethnic culture and folklore tradition of the Ossetians. The motives that represent the compositional and plot gist of various folklore genres are of great interest as a particular metaphoric code which helps in modeling the world picture of the researched ethnos. There is researched the motive of the wonderful bead (Цыкурайы фæрдыг) fixed in the folklore and ethnography of the Ossetians.