This article analyzes the work of Gabriel García Márquez, one of the founders of the magical realism movement. It is established that magical realism is a literary movement that arose from the combination of folkloric and national thinking and historical and political realities. Images and details arising from religious and mystical beliefs are used as a tool to depict certain historical truths. It is studied that Márquez’s work “One Hundred Years of Solitude” is entirely based on this motif. The article examines folklore motifs in the context of images of mystical time and mystical place, and also analyzes the ways in which they are used as artistic devices in the ideological structure of the work.