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Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite...

Miscellaneous Impersonifications.

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Somewhat resembling the picture usually drawn of the supernatural Witch in the Skazkas, is that which some of them offer of a personification of evil called Likho.[224] The following story, belonging to the familiar Polyphemus-cycle, will serve to convey an idea of this baleful being, who in it takes a female form.

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Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Project Gutenberg eBook #22373

FOOTNOTES: Woe.[233]