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Old Slavic Lore: Bedtime Tales for the Sleepless
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 28 2026
Pages: 474
Weight: 1.38
Height: 0.95 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Some doors should stay shut. This book is full of them.
Before there were fairy tales for children, there were tales for the fire - told to keep people from walking certain roads after dark.
Old Slavic Lore: Book One gathers eleven of them: a well that gives back the voices of the dead, a mill that grinds only at night, a black rooster that crows when a village would rather forget, and Baba Yaga - not a villain to be outwitted, but something far older, and far less forgiving.
This is Slavic folklore the way it was actually told around the stove: slow, dark, and merciless, for readers who don't need a happy ending to find their way home.
Inside this collection:
- The well that remembers every voice it has ever swallowed
- The mill that grinds flour from something other than grain
- The black rooster no one in the village wants to hear crow
- An old man who loses his way in a forest he has walked his whole life
- Baba Yaga, keeper of an old and pitiless law
- A tree that whispers the village's oldest, best-buried sins
- A house that refuses, even now, to stand empty
- The Vodnik, who never forgives a debt to the water
- The Leshy, guardian of a forest that can no longer sleep
- A night of Kupala fire, and what it asks of the living
- Three old powers, and the price of the choices they offer
Each tale opens and closes the same way: a wanderer comes in from the dark, and an old storyteller offers shelter, warmth, and a story in exchange for company. Read one a night. Some of them you may wish you hadn't.
Eleven tales. The fire is lit.
Come in, wanderer - if you dare listen.
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