The article deals with the degree of fairy-tale folklore study of the Bessarabian Bulgarians living in Moldova. The issue of the written fi xation of folklore texts is being investigated. The characteristic and analysis of existing modern editions of fairy-tale folklore is provided. The classifi cation of texts in terms of content and their quantitative ratio is presented. An insight into the history of the study of Bulgarian fairy-tale folklore is given; the degree of its study from the standpoint of modern methodological approaches is shown. The author of the article draws attention to the low degree of knowledge about the fairy-tale folklore of the Bulgarians of Moldova presented in the publications and emphasizes the relevance of ethnographic and ethnological approaches to its study. The given approach involves the study of fairy-tale folklore as texts that are a means of transmission and preservation of ethnic mentality in the culture of the people. It is noted that fairy tales represent various types of narrative that change the degree of prevalence at diff erent historical times.