Guardian Angel, Switching Spirit and Brownie. Mlicks. Vlasova M.N.

This book presents by the bypasses - small stories about the meetings of a person with mythological characters, who exist in the Russian folklore tradition. Its carriers believed (and somewhere these beliefs are still preserved) that each place has its own “master”: a brownie and Kikimora live in the house and in the stable. In the courtyard - courtyard. On the threshing floor - a nut. In the bath - a banner and a bath grandmother. In the field - a field. Leshi with Leshachi are in the forests. In reservoirs - water and mermaids.

The peasants tried to explain the deviations from the “right” course of being, tragic accidents with which a person is difficult to reconcile. In this publication, the Volcloborist M.N. Vlasova collected Memorates, found in classical collections of fairy tales and folklore-ethnographic publications of the XIX-XX centuries, in the Tenishevsky archives, the archive of the Russian Geographical Society, the handwritten archive of IRLI RAS, as well as in personal archives Folklorist-gatherers.