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Russian Folk Belief by Linda J. Ivanits
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Russian Folk Belief (original 1989; edition 1992)

by Linda J. Ivanits

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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.… (more)
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Title:Russian Folk Belief
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Info:M.E. Sharpe (1992), Edition: New Ed, Paperback, 276 pages
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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... ( )
  PeggyHerring | Nov 25, 2011 |
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[Foreword] Folk beliefs have aroused considerable interest in Russia, among folklorists and laymen alike.
[Preface] This project began as a study of folklore in the writings of Dostoevsky.
Perhaps no period in the history of the search for folk traditions has yielded such wealth as that of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in Russia.
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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.

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