"In the folk tales of pre-Christian Russia north of Kiev, the world was full of spirits, mostly hostile, that must be propitiated. There were Yard-Things, Cellar-Things, and a host of others. Most dangerous of all was the Rusalka, the ghost of a murdered girl, still seeking to exist by drawing energy of life from all nearby living things....."
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"In the folk tales of pre-Christian Russia north of Kiev, the world was full of spirits, mostly hostile, that must be propitiated. There were Yard-Things, Cellar-Things, and a host of others. Most dangerous of all was the Rusalka, the ghost of a murdered girl, still seeking to exist by drawing energy of life from all nearby living things....."
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