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Loading... Russian Folk Belief (original 1989; edition 1992)by Linda J. Ivanits
Work InformationRussian Folk Belief by Linda J. Ivanits (Author) (1989)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. 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... ( ) no reviews | add a review
A scholarly work that aims to be both broad enough in scope to satisfy upper-division undergraduates studying folk belief and narrative and detailed enough to meet the needs of graduate students in the field. Each of the seven chapters in Part 1 focuses on one aspect of Russian folk belief, such as the pagan background, Christian personages, devils and various other logical categories of the topic. The author's thesis - that Russian folk belief represents a "double faith" whereby Slavic pagan beliefs are overlaid with popular Christianity - is persuasive and has analogies in other cultures. The folk narratives constituting Part 2 are translated and include a wide range of tales, from the briefly anecdotal to the more fully developed narrative, covering the various folk personages and motifs explored in Part 1. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)398.0947Social sciences Customs, Etiquette, Folklore Folklore Biography; History By Place Europe Russia & Eastern EuropeLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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