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35 Cards in this Set
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Russian Stove (Pech') |
in the center of the house used for cooking and heating up the house people slept on it |
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icon corner |
most important part of the house |
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domovoi |
house spirit who oversaw domestic activities |
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dvorovoi |
spirit that lived in the yard
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bannik |
spirit of the bathhouse |
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ovinnik |
spirit of the threshing barn |
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vodianoi |
half human half fish lives in deep pools |
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leshii |
lives in the forest
master of the forest and wild animals |
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rusalka |
drowned maiden |
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kikimora |
domestic house spirit that could tell someone if they would die, an oracle |
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unclean |
spirits and devils |
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dvoeverie |
dual faith
practiced by russian peasants mix of paganism and christianity |
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baba v. Ved'na |
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bathhouse |
considered an unclean place many thought that witches and sorcerers came there |
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devil |
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born/natural sorcerers |
sorcerers that are born with dark powers |
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learned sorcerers |
sorcerers/witches that learn the dark arts
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klikushestvo |
the act of being possessed by a witch shrieking illness |
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"twist" |
a tangling of crops caused by witches |
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"cut" |
a cut through crops caused by witches
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yultide |
winter solstice sang ritual songs and ate certain foods mock funerals bonfires and divinations |
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damp mother earth |
mokosh, the god of mother earth tales of her protecting treasure with supernatural forces buried under the ground |
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maslenitsa |
spring solstice
lots of food burned the maslenitsa- straw doll |
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rusalnaya week |
7th-8th week after easter buried the dead that could not be buried due to frozen ground also known as trinity week banishing of the rusalka, would use a doll decorate a birch tree and put it in the forest |
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ivan kupalo |
summer solstice lighting of bonfires jumping over a fire |
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st. nicholas |
patron saint of livestock favorite saint of russian peasant kind and merciful helper |
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st george |
holy warrior favorite saint of the upper class similar to nicholas egor |
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elijah the prophet |
contrasted with nicholas capable of destruction similar to perun |
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perun |
chief of the gods worshiped by the upper class god of thunder/lightning similar to zeus |
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volos |
god the dead |
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paraskeva |
Friday, a woman's saint oct 28 stories of her attacking women for spinning on her day |
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cassian |
the unmerciful feast day every four years |
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sorcerer |
male |
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witch |
female
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healer |
both |
