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Encyclopedia of Russian and Slavic Myth and Legend
Some background: I’m Polish, with avid interest for Slavic folklore, history and paganism.
Mike dixon kennedy biography book
I was lucky to have enough background knowledge on the subject to be able to recognize when the book was trying to sell me nonsense.
The first red flag was the title „Encyclopedia of Russian and Slavic Myth and Legend”.
Seeing how Russians are very much Slavic I was somewhat confused but the intro chapter explained that by „Russian” the author means „of the Russian Empire”. As a result the myths tackled in the book are Slavic, Baltic, Sami, Armenian, as well as belonging to many groups indigenous peoples of European Russia and Siberia.
That’s a lot of different cultures and mythologies to tackle, all of them rather overlooked in the academic sources and difficult to research. From the start author set for himself a very difficult task at which he fa