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Sorcery, magic

Total records: 41
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Code: 031246
Kleshchevich, O.V
Alkhimiia: Vykhod iz Spagiricheskogo Labirinta

[ Alchemy: Exit from the spagyric labyrinth : ]
St. Petersburg: RKhGA, 2014
Language: Russian
 Price: $ 24.00
This book reveals some secrets of alchemy and spagyric, the art of making medicine through alchemical procedures. The book is a commentary to the 157 alchemical canons published, together with the 153 alchemical aphorisms, by Franciscus Mercurius van Helmont (17th century).
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Code: 016604
Gruntovskii, A.V
Potekhi Strashnye i Smeshnye
Kniga o Fol`klornom Teatre, Skomorokhakh, Riazhennykh i Kulachnykh Boiakh

[ Amusements dreadful and funny : Book on folklore theater, skomorokhs, mummery, and fisticuffs ]
St. Petersburg: Russkaia Zemlia, Rossiiskii Institut Istorii iskusstv, 2002
Language: Russian
 Price: $ 24.00
This is a study of traditional Russian folk amusements: folklore theater, skomorokhs, riazhennye (mummery), and fisticuffs. The book includes as an appendix texts of many plays performed by folk theaters as well as games of riazhennye.
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Code: 008783
Fish, Ell
Gadanie po Ruke

[ Chiromancy : ]
Moscow: Avvalon, 2003
Language: Russian
 Price: $ 7.00
This book is a short guide to the ancient art of chiromancy or palm reading.
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Code: 025026
Mikhailova, T., Odesskii, M
Graf Drakula
Opyt Opisaniia

[ Count Dracula : Attempt of description ]
Moscow: OGI, 2009
Language: Russian
 Price: $ 24.00
The vampire, a character of traditional European folklore, continued his life in modern folklore: books, films and mass culture. This monograph analyzed the image of Dracula in folklore and chronicles, as well as in literature of the 18th-21st centuries.
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Code: 014555
Stepanian, K.A
Dostoevskii i Servantes
Dialog v Bol`shom Vremeni

[ Dostoevskii and Cervantes : Dialog over a great time ]
Moscow: Iazyki slavianskoi kul`tury, 2013
Language: Russian
 Price: $ 32.00
This monograph compares Spain between the 16th and 17th centuries and Russia in the 19th century, the evolution of Dostoevskii and Cervantes, who both survived the horror of a death sentence and a last minute pardon, prison, hardship, personal fame in their lifetime and lack of understanding.
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Code: 005985
Sny i Videniia v Narodnoi Kul`ture
Mifologicheskii, Religiozno-Misticheskii i Kul`turno-Psikhologicheskii Aspekty

[ Dreams and visions in folk culture : Mythological, religious and mystical aspects ]
Moscow: RGGU, 2002
Language: Russian
 Price: $ 29.00
Dreams, fainting, delirium, visions and other supernatural experiences were always considered in Slavic folk culture as significant events, and therefore were subject to interpretation and translation to others through stories.
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Code: 001617
Vostochnoslavianskii Etnolingvisticheskii Sbornik
Issledovaniia i Materialy

[ East Slavic ethnolinguistic collection : Issledovaniia i Materialy ]
Moscow: Indrik, 2001
Language: Russian
 Price: $ 25.50
This collection focuses on various aspects of language and folk culture of eastern Slavs. The contributors study the terminology of family rituals, folk demonology and mythology, astronomy and meteorology, beliefs and ideas related to bread, weaving, shepherding, etc.
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Code: 030790
Vostochnoslavianskie Zagovory
Annotirovannyi Bibliograficheskii Ukazatel`

[ East Slavic incantations: Annotated bibliographic index : Annotirovannyi Bibliograficheskii Ukazatel` ]
Moscow: Probel-2000, 2011
Language: Russian
 Price: $ 21.00
This bibliographical index covers materials in Russian, Ukrainian, and Belorussian printed in 1830s-2010 in central and local publishing houses: monographs, collections, periodicals, interrogation materials, medical books, manuscripts, etc.
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Code: 014411
Agapkina, T.A
Vostochnoslavianskie Lechebnye Zagovory v Sravnitel`nom Osveshchenii
Siuzhetika i Obraz Mira

[ Eastern Slavic healing exorcisms in comparative study : Plots and the image of the world ]
Moscow: Indrik, 2010
Language: Russian
 Price: $ 54.00
This monograph studies a popular fragment of Eastern Slavs exorcism. The author describes plots in its full variety, their versions in various dialects, and their cultural connections with non-Slavic exorcisms as well as with their written forms.
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Code: 030347
Glagoleva, Ekaterina
Povsednevnaia Zhizn` Masonov v Epokhu Prosveshcheniia

[ Everyday life of masons during the Enlightenment : ]
Moscow: Molodaia gvardiia, 2012
Language: Russian
 Price: $ 35.00
A Masonic society is described in this book as a mirror of the contradictions of the 18th century. The author studies the formation of Masonic orders in Europe and the USA.
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Code: 010106
Maksimov, S.V
Nechistaia, Nevedomaia i Krestnaia Sila

[ Evil, mysterious, and heavenly forces : ]
Smolensk: Rusich, 1995
Language: Russian
 Price: $ 24.00
Sergei Maksimov (1831-1901) was a Russian writer, journalist, ethnographer. This book contains his two ethnographic works: Kul` Khleba and Nechistaia, Nevedomaia i Krestnaia Sila
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Code: 031237
Serhzantov, Pavel
Isikhastksia Antropologiia o Vremennom i Vechnom

[ Hesychast anthropology on the temporary and eternal : ]
Moscow: Tsentr bibleisko-patrologicheskikh issledovanii, 2010
Language: Russian
 Price: $ 24.00
This book is about the mystic-ascetic tradition of Hesychasm, the ascension to the high levels of this teaching. The author describes the interpretation of time, compares the medieval tradition with the current one and describes the perspective of anthropology in the light of the teaching.
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Code: 017660
Makhov, A.E
Hostis Antiquus
Kategorii i Obrazy Srednevekovoi Khristianskoi Demonologii: Opyt Slovaria

[ Hostis Antiquus: Categories and images of medieval Christian demonology : Experimental dictionary ]
Moscow: Intrada, 2005
Language: Russian
 Price: $ 43.00
Hostis Antiquus (ancient enemy-Latin), fallen angel, is a character of many hagiographic, religious, theological and poetical works. This book reconstructs the morphology of this character and its supporting frame.
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Code: 001380
On Poiavilsia...: Sovetskaia Misticheskaia Proza 20-30-kh Godov
Sbornik

[ It is born...: Soviet mystical prose 1920-30s : Anthology ]
Moscow: PROZAiK, 2009
Language: Russian
 Price: $ 29.00
Collection of mystical prose by the best known Russian writers of the 1920-30s: M. Bulgakov, A. Chaianov, E. Mindlin, A. Grin, O. Savich, and A. Sobol`. Comments.Most of the book is taken by the full original version of "Master and Margarita" (1928-1937, pp.
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Code: 024274
Mistitsizm
Teoriia i Istoriia

[ Mysticism : Theory and history ]
Moscow: Institut filosofii RAN, 2008
Language: Russian
 Price: $ 12.00
The collection studies mysticism in Western (Christian) and Eastern (Sufism and Tibetan Vajrayana) teachings, as well as a trend of spreading mysticism in the Internet.
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Code: 029252B
Mifologicheskie Rasskazy Russkikh Krest`ian XIX-XX vv

[ Mythological stories of Russian peasants of the 19th and 20th centuries : ]
St. Petersburg: Pushkinskii Dom, 2015
Language: Russian
 Price: $ 49.00
This is the second edition of the first anthology of mythological stories (bylichkas) of Russian peasants in the 19th and 20th centuries. It includes more than a thousand bylichkas both wide-spread and existing in a single recording.
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Code: 011176B
Afanas`ev, A.N
Mify, Pover`ia i Sueveriia Slavian
Poeticheskie Vozzreniia Slavian na Prirodu: V Trekh Tomakh

[ Myths, beliefs, and superstitions of the Slavs : Poetic views of the Slavs towards nature: In three volumes ]
Moscow-St. Petersburg: EKSMO-Terra Fantastica, 2002
Language: Russian
 Price: $ 78.00
The Russian philologist Aleksandr Afanas`ev (1826-1871) is widely known for his collections of Russian folk and secret tales, as well as his three volume publication originally called Poetical Views of the Slavs Towards Nature.
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Code: 019813-4/1
Kulikov, I
Novye Religioznye Organizatsii Rossii Destruktivnogo, Okkul`tnogo i Neoizucheskogo Kharaktera
Spravochnik. Tom 4. Vostochno-Misticheskie Gruppy. Chast` 1

[ New religious organizations of Russia of a destructive, occult and neo pagan character : Handbook: Volume 4. Eastern mystical groups. Part 1 ]
Moscow: Palomnik", 2002
Language: Russian
 Price: $ 27.00
This is the fourth volume, part one, of a handbook of new religious organizations of a destructive, occult and neo pagan character in Russia. The current volume describes Eastern mystical groups: Ananda, White Lotus, Bahai, etc.
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Code: 031088
Bessonov, Igor`
Russkaia Narodnaia Eskhatologiia
Istoriia i Sovremennost`

[ Russian folk eschatology : History and the present ]
Moscow: Gnozis, 2014
Language: Russian
 Price: $ 32.00
This book describes the Russian folk ideas about the end of the world. It covers the evolution of these ideas from the Old Russian epoch to the present with the main accent on the last two centuries. Russian folk eschatology is viewed in several different contexts: as a part of the Christian tradition, as Russian paganism, as modern common beliefs, etc.
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Code: 029226
Russkaia Misticheskaia Proza

[ Russian mystical prose : ]
Moscow: Astrel`, 2012
Language: Russian
 Price: $ 31.00
This is a collection of Russian mystical prose, "horror novels" of 19th century: Bernet, Bestuzhev-Marlinskii, Gogol`, Odoevskii, Olin, Pogorel`skii, Pushkin, Rostopchina, Somov, Titov, A. Tolstoi, and Zagoskin.
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Code: 003461
Russkii Shkol`nyi Fol`klor
Ot "Vyzyvanii" Pikovoi Damy do Semeinykh Rasskazov

[ Russian school folklore : From calling Queen of Spades to family stories ]
Moscow: Ladomir-AST, 1998
Language: Russian
 Price: $ 30.00
This book in the series Russian Hidden Literature is a collection of articles on children’s folklore by Russian philologists: S. Adon`eva, A. Belousova, S. Borisov, V. Golovin, M. Kalashnikova, S. Loiter, M.
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Code: 011371
Russkoe Koldovstvo, Vedovstvo, Znakharstvo

[ Russian sorcery, magic, and shamanism : ]
St. Petersburg: VIAN-Litera, 1997
Language: Russian
 Price: $ 22.00
The most complete edition to date. It consists of two parts: a reprint of a turn-of-the-century bestseller, and articles on sorcery in folklore by contemporary researchers. Glossary, commentary, bibliography.
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Code: 006457
Vlasova, M.N
Russkie Sueveriia
Entsiklopedicheskii Slovar`

[ Russian superstitions : Encyclopedic dictionary ]
St. Petersburg: Azbuka, 2000
Language: Russian
 Price: $ 43.50
This is a dictionary of Russian folk superstitions of the 19th-20th centuries or, so called "low" mythology about evil spirits: mermaids, witches, spirits, demon-prophet, demon-lover, etc. The dictionary is followed with two articles: M.
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Code: 007499
Tikhov, V
Strashnye Skazki, Rasskazannye Dedom Egorom, Krest`ianinom Byvshego Cherdynskogo Ueazda Permskoi Gubernii

[ Scary tales told by the old peasant Egor from the former Cherdyn` Uezd of the Perm Gubernia : ]
Moscow: Belye Al`vy, 2000
Language: Russian
 Price: $ 12.00
Scary tales as a genre are based on the real plots of bylichkas and legends. This book contains five tales and two stories told by Egor Pashin . They were adopted by V. Tikhov for a modern audience that is not familiar with traditional peasant folk culture.
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Code: 011722-00
Slavianskii i Balkanskii Fol`klor. 2000
Narodnaia Demonologiia

[ Slavic and Balkan folklore. 2000 : Folk demonology ]
Moscow: Indrik, 2000
Language: Russian
 Price: $ 29.00
This collection deals with "low" or pagan mythology of the Slavs, demons. It discusses: principles of mythologization of natural phenomena and social life in traditional culture; issues of comparative studies of Slavic mythological characters.
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Code: 001621
Burykin, A.A
Malye Zhanry Evenkskogo Fol`klora
Zagadki. Poslovitsy i Pogovorki. Zaprety-Oberegi. Obychai i Predpisaniia. Primety: Issledovaniia i Teksty

[ Small genres of Evenk folklore : Enigmas. Sayings and proverbs. Protections and spells. Traditions and directions. Tokens: Studies and texts ]
St. Petersburg: Peterburgskoe Vostokovedenie, 2001
Language: Russian and Evenk
 Price: $ 24.00
This is the first Russian folklore literature parallel text (Evenk and Russian) publication of all known small forms of Evenk folklore. Includes 1,100 entries. About one fourth of them were collected by the author in Magadan Oblast, Kamchatka, and Chukotka.
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Code: 014643
Minutko, I.A
Iskushenie Uchitelia: Versiia Zhizni i Smerti Nikolaia Rerikha
Istoriko-Misticheskii Roman

[ Temptation of the Teacher: version of the life and death of Nikolai Rerikh : Historical mystic novel ]
Moscow: Olimp, Astrel`, 2001
Language: Russian
 Price: $ 16.50
This is another book on the history of Rerikh`s expedition to the Himalayas and his cooperation with the Russian intelligence service.
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Code: 007160
Luchshee za God 2007
Rossiiskoe Fentezi, Fantastika, Mistika

[ The 2007 year`s best: Russian fantasy, science fiction and the occult : Rossiiskoe Fentezi, Fantastika, Mistika ]
St. Petersburg: Azbuka-klassika, 2007
Language: Russian
 Price: $ 31.00
This is a collection of the best Russian fantasy, science fiction and the occult published in 2007.
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Code: 016493
Vatsuro, Vadim
Goticheskii Roman v Rossii
Novelly

[ The Gothic novel in Russia : Stories ]
Moscow: Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie, 2002
Language: Russian
 Price: $ 36.00
This is the last book by the outstanding Russian historian of literature Vadim Erazmovich Vatsuro (1935-2000). Vatsuro is best known as a Pushkinist and a specialist in Lermontov, Karamzin, and the poetry of Pushkin`s age.
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Code: 010923
Perevodchikova, E.V
Iazyk Zverinnykh Obrazov
Ocherki Istorii Iskusstva Evraziiskikh Stepei Skifskoi Epokhi

[ The Language of animal images : Essays on the history of the art of the Eurasian steppes in the Scythian epoch ]
Moscow: Nauka-Vostochnaia Literatura, 1995
Language: Russian
 Price: $ 19.50
This book is about the famous animal style of the Scythian “baroque”, their origins and meanings. The book is based on samples found in numerous sites, primarily in Russia. Includes an extensive bibliography, name index, and commentaries on the pictures.
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