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Russian Folk Belief
- First published1989
- TraditionSuperstitions
- Shelf138 books
A study of the beliefs of the Russian peasantry in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, covering household and forest spirits, the unclean force, witches, sorcerers and saints. Ivanits shows how pre-Christian and Orthodox elements formed a single popular worldview.












