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Lookin' up Russian folklore and fairy tales, particularly death folklore. I love Baba Yaga stories, but I realized I haven't read that many, and I conflate Baba Yaga with the fairytale function of witches in general, which naturally has been highly informed by Grimm's fairytales. Russian folklore is amazing. I wish I still had Gail around so I could ask her stuff.

This is proving to be very useful.

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Date: 2008-05-27 07:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kleenexwoman.livejournal.com
Oooooooooooooh. I'm not surprised at the human sacrifice stuff. Any books or papers you can point me to?

but when we look for a rationale behind its early manifestations, it is not at all pleasant. It's homicidal.
Terry Pratchett taught me this! It irks me sometimes how fairy tales and folklore and superstitions get whitewashed or handwaved away as silliness--our society places such an emphasis on rationality that it's sometimes hard to remember that "superstitions" were things that people lived and died by.

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