Russian Sacred Tales: From the Collection of A. N. Afanasyev

The book includes selected texts from the famous collection of Russian sacred tales published by the collector and researcher of folklore A. N. Afanasyev in 1872 in Geneva. Sacred tales are those with erotic content and obscene language. According to Afanasyev, the tales he published are intended for true connoisseurs of "all that is sacred" and "the vivid symbolic Russian speech."