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Last lecture Todays lecture

• Interpreting American legends
• As a cluster
• Over time
• Note use of tale material in interpretation
• Personal appeal
• Russian legends of the post-Soviet type

• Russian legends, Ukrainian legends
• Examples of interpretation
• Using pop culture (culture industry) in
  interpretation
• Conservative nature of legends

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Russian urban legends

• Dont buy foreign goods
• The doll
• Curtains
• Dont be attracted by the wealth of the past
  icons versus gold statue things that belong to
  OTHERS
• Parallel to treasure stories, Ivan Kupalo and
  flowering fern
• Contrast to US dont buy imported goods
• Compare to New Russians jokes
• How this might affect entry of former USSR into
  global market

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More Russian, Ukrainian material

• Trafficking in women, children for body parts
• Effect on adoptions recall truth of legend
• Effect on medical aid to children
• Lessia and affect on hospital in Lviv it is
  specifically a kidney story

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Food contamination

• Dont succumb to the temptation of imported
  foods chicken, gum, candy
• Special, indigenous food contamination
• Red bus, blue bus
• Red cookies
• Pirozhki and the mystery seat in the movie
  theater
• Buying pirozhki instead of cooking at home

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More Russian legends

• Food
• Image of mother/grandmother (contrast to US)
• Breakdown of the family and more sexual freedom
  for mom
• Other predatory mom stories red spot
• Loss of protection, including that provided by
  the state

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Return of the Dead

• To warn doctor in apartment
• To take the living with them taxi
• Mother who dies in childbirth
• Couple in Velykyi Khutir
• Setting candles

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Legends about supernatural beings House spirit
or domovoi
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Barn spirit of dvorovoi
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Forest spirit or leshii
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Spirits LOVE babies remnant of exposure
practices?
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In most modern legends, the forest spirit looks
like a peasant
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The field spirit or polevoi
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The midday spirit or poludnitsa who causes
sunstroke
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The water spirit or vodianoi
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Water spirit again
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Broadside version Russian lubok
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The rusalka
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Witch Baba Iaga type
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Witch of legend babka or vedma