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Ideas about spirits living in the same house with people have been preserved in the culture of the Eastern Slavs since pagan times and were not supplanted, despite the spread of Christianity. Who are the brownie, "bannik" and "ovinnik"? Why do they let the cat go first when moving to a new house? Where does the "kikimora" live and why was this word used to call not only an evil spirit, but also witchcraft objects?
Olga Vladimirovna Golubkova, Candidate of Historical Sciences, senior researcher at the Institute of Archeology and Ethnography of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, tells. The video was prepared as part of the project “Important Things: Traditions and Life of Russian Migrants in Siberia,” implemented with the support of the Presidential Fund for Cultural Initiatives in 2023-2024.
Director and cameraman - Sergey Borisenko

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