Ethan aha Myth-Folklore

Russian Fairy Tales      Bibliography. Russian Fairy Tales by W. R. S. Ralston.  Web Source      Notes:       * Death kills a household in a village every night.       * Cossack discovers it's a witch dressed all in white and chops off her arm. The girl is caught the next morning and drowned. The Cossack is payed.       * Priest's son reads with his back to a dead Princess for three nights. Each night the Headless Princess rises from her coffin and conjures horrors to try and distract the boy.       * Three daughters-in-law are expected to watch their dead father-in-law on three separate nights. The first two are strangled by their undead father-in-law while the third outsmarts him and gains the rights to his wealth.       * A Fiddler sinks into Hell and sees a rich man getting beaten by fiends. 

Leshy      Bibliography. Russian Fairy Tales by W. R. S. Ralston.  Web Source      Notes:      * Husband tricks his bad wife into falling into a bottomless pit into Tartarus.      * Demons are tormented by the wife and one comes up to live in Russia.       * The demon tells the husband to let him possess different folk and the man will heal them and earn a lot of money.       * A hunter finds the leshy on a log in the woods and shoots it.       * The hunter follows the dying Leshy back to its shack.       * There, the Leshy is lying stone dead. He finds the priest's daughter, who's been missing for three years. The priest marries her to the hunter.