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Viy (folkloric supernatural story by Nikolai Gogol) (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 1 day ago by Sergio@piefed.social to c/wikipedia@lemmy.world

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Students at Bratsky Monastery in Kiev break for summer vacation.[1][2] The impoverished students must find food and lodging along their journey home.

Three students, the kleptomaniac theologian Khalyava, the merry-making philosopher Khoma Brut, and the younger rhetorician Tiberiy Gorobets, find wheat fields suggesting a nearby village. They leave the high road and walk for some time before reaching a farm with two cottages as night draws near. An old woman begrudgingly lodges the three travelers separately.

At night, the woman calls on Khoma and begins grabbing at him...

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[–] Sergio@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

idk but reading about it led me to the Aarne-Thompson-Uther index of story types which is available free online: https://edition.fi/kalevalaseura/catalog/book/763

[–] JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago

wow, thank you for that...

Kinda like the International seed-bank, right?