Unclean, unknown and godmother. Maksimov S.

A fascinating study of the ethnographer S. V. Maksimov, saturated with a deep understanding of the life and morals of the Russian people. Will introduce the world of folk superstitions and beliefs, as well as with mythological characters: brownies and goblin, werewolves and mermaids, witches and healers.

The author lively and colorfully describes the amazing and mysterious phenomena of peasant life: customs, festivities and rituals Where reality is intertwined with mysticism and mystery, and Christianity with paganism. Each story, legend and analysis are saturated with the atmosphere of folk culture, which makes the book not only a valuable source of knowledge, but also a real masterpiece of ethnographic art.

As the publisher V. N. Tenishev wrote in 1903: “In the present of his work, S. V. Maksimov used not only the facts communicated by my employees, but also a huge reserve of observations collected by him in his young years When, in the image of hiking, dressed by a wanderer, he went to the people. In live images, the author draws both a man and a woman, like the tenets entangled by faith in evil spirits; With a well -aimed humor, it characterizes the rusted Russian line and its unpretentious leprosy and at the same time with amazing depth shave the struggle between the world of paganism and Christianity. ”.