Ruins of Past Life
The Magic of Easter Week
Holy Week—also called Easter Week—is preceded by Great Lent. This time is the central event of church life and marks for believers the final span of Jesus Christ’s earthly life in human form: his suffering, crucifixion...
Words for the Dead: A Russian Folk Incantation
To take a hair from the head of the one they wish to harm, and place it in an uncooked egg; then seal the opening through which the hair is put with sulfur. Then take forty rye grains and grind them counter to the sun....
The dead Bridegroom: Scary stories of Russian folklore
This happened before the Revolution, during the time of the first war. I know about it from my parents, and villagers spoke of it long before that.
Dvórovushka
Dvorovushka — a household spirit dwelling in the farmyard or in the livestock buildings.