The Polevoi

...From Belozersk District

"I was living with Alena on the Heights. The cows disappeared and I went to look for them. Suddenly, the field was seized with such a wind that-my Lord God!-I glanced and saw someone standing in white. And he was blowing and he was blowing and also making a whistle. I forgot all about the cows and beat it home quickly, and Alena explained to me 'If you saw him in white, it means it was the polevoi'."

- S.V.Maksimov, "Nechistaia sila. Nevedomaia sila. Sobranie sochineneii", vol 18 p89

Illustration is by Boris Zabirokhin and is from

Vlasova, M. Novaia ABEVEGA russkikh sveverii. SPb: Severo Zapad, 1997

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