Grandma Nyura. Osinovo. Legends about Wizards and Witches

The basis of this book is the tales related to the now non-existent village of Osinovo and its inhabitants, whom people in the area believed to be powerful witches and wizards capable of performing miracles, although these miracles could not... be called good.
 
Is it true that there were unique cults and traditions in the village of Osinovo? Or are these stories mere fabrications born decades later through the retelling of mysterious tales? The answer may lie in the notes of eyewitnesses, collected at various times in the same part of the Tikhvin District of Leningrad Region, familiar to readers from other books of the "Grandma Nyura" laboratory.
 
The book does not urge the reader, with the rigor of a detective, to investigate the authenticity of what is commonly referred to as "village mysticism." Instead, it invites you to plunge into the alluring depths of legends that have been passed down from mouth to mouth, from generation to generation, and to immerse yourself in the atmosphere of sacred, trembling fear of the forest and its ancient mysteries.