The article is devoted to the study of verbalization of the primary adaptive biological children need in food, along with their social identification in the surrounding world, on the example of a small genre of oral folk art - the joke "A Magpie Cooked the Porridge" in all the diversity of its variants. The most common varieties of the aforementioned joke are examined and subjected to a language analysis. It is well known that for the child's favorable adaptation in the socium, cultural and

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... uistic sphere, since the times of antiquity, such genres of folk art as fairy tales, epics, songs, pestles, jokes, proverbs and sayings have been used. In folklore in picturesque images, various aspects of people's life are reflected, allowing to unite generations of people into the living chain for many centuries. It is for this that such folk creations are valuable to us, which were passed from mouth to mouth and were familiar from early childhood. The relevance lies in need to fill in the inadequacy of language games studding, in particular folklore jokes, in the light of modern cognitive trends. It is proved that in the folkloric phenomenon of the joke "A Magpie Cooked the Porridge" and in the image of the Magpie itself reflects the life of the ancient Slavs and their culture, mother's desire in a playful form to adapt and socialize a child.