Russian mythology. Spirits are “owners” and traditional peasant life. 2nd edition. Crinite N.A.

The book is devoted to the analysis of the images of folk mythological prose-the spirits of the hosts ”, who formed in ancient mythology the highest deities, and in the late folklore of transformed in lower spiritual entities that help in household and economic affairs: a banner, house, goblin, water and conjugate With them are creatures. The appearance, chronotope, the functions of these characters are considered. Sincretism and the ambiguity of images are revealed, the archetype of which was formed in the myth of the totem ancestor. Field materials, including collected by the author, are involved in the analysis. For the first time, a comparative analysis of a very large volume of scientific data in the field of ethnography, folklorism, history, linguistics, art history, literary criticism, folk medicine, botanists.

for folklorists, ethnographers, art historians, religious scholars, psychologists, as well as also For readers interested in folk culture.