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

Ivan the Fool: Russian Folk Belief: A Cultural History

Abram Tertz, Andrei Sinyavsky, Nikolai Formozov, Joanne Turnbull

416 pages • first pub 2007 (view 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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