A Guide to Russian Folklore | Human Voiced, No Ads
00:00:00 Introduction and Welcome
00:01:59 The Russian Fairy Tale
00:09:20 Baba Yaga The Witch
00:15:47 Domovoi and the Household Spirits
00:22:13 Forest and Water Spirits
00:28:26 Koschei the Deathless
00:34:24 The Byliny Heroic Epics and the Bogatyri
00:40:41 The Firebird the Grey Wolf and the Magic Helpers
00:47:12 Seasonal Ritual and the Agricultural Calendar
00:52:04 Legacy
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Sources and Further Reading
Afanasyev, Alexander. Narodnye Russkie Skazki [Russian Folk Tales]. 3 vols. (1855–1863).
Propp, Vladimir. Morfologiya Skazki [Morphology of the Folktale] (1928). Trans. Laurence Scott, 1968.
Rybnikov, Pavel. Pesni [Songs]. 4 vols. (1861–1867). (Byliny collections from Lake Onega region.)
Hilferding, Alexander. Onezhskie byliny [Byliny of the Onega Region] (1873).
Ivanits, Linda J. Russian Folk Belief (1989).
Johns, Andreas. Baba Yaga: The Ambiguous Mother and Witch of the Russian Folktale (2004).
Ralston, W.R.S. The Songs of the Russian People (1872).
Warner, Elizabeth. Russian Myths (2002).
Hubbs, Joanna. Mother Russia: The Feminine Myth in Russian Culture (1988).
Pushkin, Alexander. Skazka o Tsare Saltane [The Tale of Tsar Saltan] (1831). (Literary adaptation of folk sources.)
Information sourced from Wiki, Gutenburg, JSTOR, primary and secondary sources. All information is congruent with archaeological and history evidence at the time of recording.