Russian Folk Belief

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M.E. Sharpe, 15 févr. 1989
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Russian folk beliefs have left their mark, not only on superstitions and customs, but in music, art and some major literary works by the likes of Pushkin, Dostoevsky and Gogol. An exciting exploration of the Russian lower mythology, Russian Folk Belief offers a fascinating glimpse into the admixture of pagan and Christian elements which comprise the world view of the Russian peasant.
 

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The Domovoi and Other Domestic Spirits
169
Nature Spirits
178
Sorcerers and Witches
190
Notes
207
Bibliography
235
Subject Index
245
Place Name Index
253
Name Index
255

Creation Legends
130
Biblical Personages and Saints
136
Devils
154
About the Author
257
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Page 37 - Do you mean to say that you do not know all this? Strange! According to you the Russian people is the most religious in the world. That is a lie! The basis of religiousness is pietism, reverence, fear of God. Whereas the Russian man utters the name of the Lord while scratching himself somewhere. He says of the icon: if it isn't good for praying it's good for covering the pots.
Page 211 - Christian and pagan strata in the east Slavic cult of St Nicholas: polemical notes on Boris Uspenski', Slavic and East European Journal, 28, no.
Page xii - Life," in The Peasant in Nineteenth-Century Russia, ed. Wayne S. Vucinich (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1968), 1—40, is that of a man. The lament texts used are BE Chistov and KV Chistova, eds. , Prichitaniia. The account given excludes laments for recruits, which are a type of lament for a man. Laments about one's fate and about accidents are also excluded. It should also be noted that, of the eleven laments...
Page 98 - Veselov kept thick books from which, peasants believed, he told fortunes. He spoke slowly and imposingly, communicating for the most part in riddles and hints and thus imparting an aura of mystery to his person.
Page 15 - at every step in studying Russian popular religion one meets the constant longing for a great divine female...
Page 29 - Since the devil was prone to hide anywhere, measures were taken to keep him away during storms: the candles from Holy Thursday were lit, houses were censed, black cats and dogs, possible transformations of the devil, were thrown outside, and everything was sealed with the sign of the cross, for, according to general belief, the prophet might strike a house, animal, or person in which the unclean force sought...
Page 111 - In the case of the miller, the proximity to water, an element commonly used in magic rituals, led to the suspicion that he cast spells, or "whispered" over it, and that he lived in friendship with the water spirit (vodianoi).
Page 16 - At every step in studying Russian popular religion one meets the constant longing for a great divine female power. ... Is it too daring to hypothesize, on the basis of this religious propensity, the scattered elements of the cult of the Great Goddess who once had reigned upon the immense Russian plains?
Page 113 - Rendering assistance in gaining the affection of a loved one or causing someone to fall out of love was one of the major functions of the various practitioners of magic in the Russian village.

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