This thesis paper describes the analysis of Vladimir Nazor's Istrian stories that originate in Koper on the basis of Istrian Chakavian dialect. Nazor enters Croatian literature in the time when ever more visible signs of disintegration of the Realism appear there, that is in the time of Modernism. Stories are interpreted on the basis of fundamental motives, frameworks and symbols that make each of the stories and the last chapter is ''The context of the myth in Istrian stories'' where Nazor's affinitiy towards Slavic mythology where from he takes motives about the creation of the world and calendar myth is particularly explained. Undoubtedly there are also elements of myth about matriarchy which exceptionally fit the context of European Modernism literature movements. After interweaving of mythological and Christian worldview, Christian understanding of the world leads to demythologisation.