Maksimov's 'Unclean, Unknown and Holy Power'

Sergey Maksimov's book 'Nechistaya, nevedomaya i krestnaya sila' (published in St Petersburg in 1903) gathered peasant accounts of house spirits, forest and water spirits, sorcerers and the walking dead from his travels in northern Russia.

1903 CE · 59.92, 30.32 · status: official

The account

Maksimov records named informants and places, so the book preserves dated first-person accounts, such as people led astray by the leshy or visited by the dead. It remains a standard source for Russian folk demonology.

Sources

1. Wikipedia: Sergey Maksimov