Unclean, Unknown, and Godparenting Force

A classic study in which ethnographer S.V. Maksimov, driven by an amateur, largely unsystematic and romantic interest in folk life and peasant culture, reinforces a systematic approach to the study of folklore, which defines the life of the people in its numerous manifestations – from everyday life and forms of economic activity to worldview, value systems, and the folk picture of the world, including rituals, texts, traditions, beliefs, and mythological representations of the peasant world.