This final paper presents a brief overview of the history of Croatian oral literature, as well as oral literature in general, with emphasis on Kajkavian oral literature due to the dialectological specificity of the city of Varaždin and the Varaždin area. Therefore, is given a brief overview of the creation and research, i.e. recording, of Kajkavian oral literature and the paper also includes the scientific activity of two important recorders, Ivan Kukuljević Sakcinski and Matija Valjavac. At the center of interest are the oral traditions of the Varaždin region, which are divided into etiological, historical and demonological, as well as legends that mainly contain historical and church, often Marian symbols. The features of a particular group of oral literary types are presented on selected examples from the literature, some of which are stylized and others faithfully documented in the dialect. This paper is based on a selection of examples of oral traditions and legends contained in anthologies and collections of Croatian oral traditions and legends, the subject of which is close to the Varaždin area. Some examples have been printed in a stylized manner in order to bring their content closer to a wider readership, while others have been faithfully recorded in the Kajkavian dialect. The analysis of the selected stories shows the characteristics of certain groups of prose oral literary genres according to the above classification, at which the focus is placed on their typological characteristics.