Ivan the Fool: Russian Folk Belief: A Cultural History by Andrei Sinyavsky, Joanne Turnbull, Abram Tertz, Nikolai Formozov

Ivan the Fool: Russian Folk Belief: A Cultural History

Andrei Sinyavsky, Joanne Turnbull, Abram Tertz, Nikolai Formozov

416 pages first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction informative slow-paced
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This masterly and extremely readable survey covers folk superstitions and customs, house and nature spirits, pagan gods, Christianization, saints, icons, the Schism, Old Believers, religious sects, and the characters and symbolism in Russian fairy...

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