Myths and legends of the Eastern Slavs. Levkievskaya E.

The mythology of the Eastern Slavs is rooted in distant pagan antiquity. But many ancient beliefs are well preserved in the living tradition of the Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian peoples.

myths about the creation of land, nature and man, the beliefs of the spirits of nature and domestic demons, about the highest gods of ancient Rus' and the afterlife - about All this is interesting and fascinatingly told in the book.

Myths and legends of the Eastern Slavs are presented on the basis of oral traditions collected by ethnographers and philologists over the past one and a half centuries.

for middle and senior school age.