Linda J. Ivanits

An incredible pleasure reading this book and seeing documented some of the same folk beliefs my mother, grandmother and great-grandmother shared with me. My grandmother and great-grandmother believed with all their hearts that they knew the woman whose hair had been turned into hundreds of braids overnight by the devil. My mother always pooh-poohed the story as urban myth. And here it is! Narrative number 47! That crafty domovoi! You never know where he might turn up...