This article offers the oral and literary heritage of the village Svinišće. In this article we are presented to numerous old customs which arent being done anymore but also to several of which are still performed in Svinišće. Although this village is slowly disappearing, a lot of people whose ancestors lived in Svinišće, still come for major holidays and celebrate them with old customs and in that way they keep their tradition alive. In this work we touched various parts of life, from social aspect to religious one. One of the chapters introduces us to church and folk heritage where we find customs and ceremonies related to catholic holidays like Saint Nicholas, Christmas, Easter, All Saint's Day and similar. In the second chapter, through prayers and poems we get to know the religious oral lyrics of this village, while in the third chapter we find songs and customs related to weddings. In Secular oral lyrical poems we read different poems that the villagers sang and danced to and with which they expressed their joy on certain occasions. We also learned about songs with which they wrote while describing a certain event and which they passed on from one generation to another. Revealed to us are also the customs after death of a person. In the chapter named Women in Svinišće Svjetovne usmene lirske pjesme, we learned about the hard live, treatment and position of women in Svinišće. Last chapters present us with various stories, riddles, sayings and superstitions which are being told for decades by the villagers.