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In 1998, New Directions Publishing published a short story collection, ''A Werewolf Problem in Central Russia and Other Stories''. All the works are united by a mystical theme. The book consists of eight stories written by the writer in the early 1990s. [7] A Werewolf Problem in Central Russia [6] Vera Pavlovna's Ninth Dream; Sleep; Tai Shou ...
This notion is based apparently on Alexey K. Tolstoy's novella The Family of the Vourdalak, telling the story of one such Slavic family. In Russia the common name for vampire (or wurdulac) is upyr (Russian: упырь). Nowadays the three terms are regarded as synonymous, but in 19th century they were seen as separate, although similar entities.
The Sacred Book of the Werewolf (Russian: «Священная книга оборотня ») is a novel by Victor Pelevin first published in 2004. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] This book is in the great Russian tradition of social satire running from Gogol through to Bulgakov , according to the journalists of The Guardian . [ 1 ]
Mikhail Viktorovich Popkov (Russian: Михаи́л Ви́кторович Попко́в; born 7 March 1964) is a Russian serial killer, rapist, and necrophile who committed the sexual assault and murder of eighty-three girls and women between 1992 and 2010 in Angarsk, Irkutsk, in Siberia, and Vladivostok in Far East, although he has confessed to and is suspected of at least eighty-six in total.
The werewolf trials. While most people know of the witch trials that took place in Europe and in the American colonies (including Salem, Massachusetts) during the 1500's and 1600's, few are aware ...
Thiess of Kaltenbrunn (Kniedini), also spelled Thies, and commonly referred to as the Livonian werewolf, was a Livonian man who was put on trial for heresy in Jürgensburg, Swedish Livonia, in 1692. At the time in his eighties, Thiess openly proclaimed himself to be a werewolf ( wahrwolff ), claiming that he ventured into Hell with other ...
No genre reveals that more than the werewolf film. “The Wolfman,” in 1941, stopped dead in its tracks during each transformation scene, as if to say, “Forget the dumb story! Behold this ...
In Changes, a novel in the Dresden Files series by Jim Butcher, the fairy Toot-Toot, a Polevoi, is enraged when he is mistakenly called a Domovoy by Sanya, the Russian Knight of the Cross. The videogame Quest For Glory IV: Shadows of Darkness , set in the Slavic countryside of a fictional east-European valley, features several Slavic fairies ...