The collection Wandering Ideas on the Paths of Humanities. Studies in Folkloristics, Cultural Anthropology and Slavistics is dedicated with respect and affection to the forty-years long research and creative work of Assoc. Prof. Dr Katya Mihaylova, one of the famous contemporary scholars in Slavistics, who has significant academic achievements in the field of folklore studies, cultural anthropology and ethnology. During all these decades, she worked at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences; until 2010, she was consecutively part of the Department of Verbal Folklore and the Department of Slavic and Balkan Folklore of the Institute of Folklore; after that she worked at the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum (IEFSEM – BAS), Department of Comparative Folklore Studies. The research topics of Katya Mihaylova are extremely diverse and cover numerous fields. The most impressive among them are the comparative studies in Slavic folklore and mythology, the studies on folk Christianity and religious folklore, on epic performance (especially the topic of the wandering blind singer-beggars), folk ballads, calendar feasts and so on. She also studies contemporary political folklore, ethnic stereotypes, cultural and religious identity of the Bulgarians abroad and the Poles in Bulgaria, preservation and construction of cultural heritage in migration.