Essays on Slavic mythology. Zelenin D.

In the "Essays on Russian Mythology", first published in 1916, D.K. Zelenin carefully explores beliefs in mermaids and ideas about the layers of dead, that is, about people who have died an unnatural death. The huge ethnographic material used by the author, and the depth of penetration into the topic made this book a significant stage in the development of Russian mythological science, and today retaining its relevance.