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Since 1989 Panorama of Russia has specialized in academic and reference publications from the Russian Federation and the Commonwealth of Independent States.
[ Bania v Polnoch` : Istoricheskii Obzor Magii i Gadanii v Rossii]
The Bathhouse at midnight: An Historical survey of magic and divination in Russia
Moscow: Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie, 2006 241 p Hardcover. 14 x 21 cm ISBN: 5867934446 Language: Russian
This book by W.F. Ryan, a well known British slavicist, the president of British Society of Folklorists, is compendium of Russian folk beliefs, sorcery, magic and fortune-telling. The author also establishes parallels among Russian and European folklore: Balkan, Greek, Scandinavian, Anglo Saxon, etc. Contents: Historical essay; Folk magic; Sorcerers and witches; Russian names of magic and magicians; Folk fortune-telling; Signs, tokens, calendar forecasts; Explanation of dreams and fortune-telling related to the human body; Charms and false prayers; Charms and amulets; Materia magica; Texts as amulets; Magic of numbers and letters; Geomantics; Alchemy amd magic qualities of stones; Astrology: Byzantine and post-Byzantine traditions; Magic, the Church, laws and the state. Bibliography, index.
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