I travelled for 7 years throughout Europe collecting oral stories in remote areas that would otherwise be lost and visited the national libraries where many manuscripts were kept of recorded folktales, such as J.

The second of the two mentions occurs within a list of Slavic gods and beings next to their presumed equivalence in Roman mythology (the Slavic god Perun, for example, appears equated with the Roman god Jupiter). Zoya, it turns out, has been a beautiful young woman for hundreds of years; she and her far more traditionally witchy-looking companion, Elga, have been thriving unnoticed in the bloody froth of Europe’s wars.I vividly remember she picked up all fallen hairs and collected them… she used to tell me that one is supposed to build a pillow of fallen hair during life time, to be used in the end, in the coffin, but I was just a very young child and scared of such ideas. I think I’m rounding up because I am so happy that this book proves conclusively that Barlow is not a one-hit wonder. I'd like to read more books just about him - Pink Panther style; maybe turning into different animals now and then; still working on his marital relationship etc.

Slavs never really have she’s off their pagan roots, they have become tangled in the fabric of the culture. Author Madame Pamita completes each chapter by sharing how to put the elder-witch's wisdom into practice, with instructions for Ukrainian folk embroidery, weaving wreaths from herbs, using magical poppets, and working with the spirits of the forest, the hearth, and the sauna. Weil die Gefühlswelt der Hexe Zoya und ihres Liebhaber treffend beschrieben wird, man neben der Fantastik eine echte Liebesgeschichte verfolgt.

Ježibaba [ cs], a figure closely related to Baba Yaga, occurs in the folklore of the West Slavic peoples.