Students at Bratsky Monastery in Kiev break for summer vacation.[1][2] The impoverished students must find food and lodging along their journey home.
Three students, the kleptomaniac theologian Khalyava, the merry-making philosopher Khoma Brut, and the younger rhetorician Tiberiy Gorobets, find wheat fields suggesting a nearby village. They leave the high road and walk for some time before reaching a farm with two cottages as night draws near. An old woman begrudgingly lodges the three travelers separately.
At night, the woman calls on Khoma and begins grabbing at him…
Wow.
That was a bit much (I get a bit paralysed by horror elements), but otherwise I really like humanity’s collective folkloric tales and legends. I find that they frequently have both immediate cultural relevance, but also… speak many words of wisdom, if only one has the ears for it, haha.Like, these tales can be hugely symbolic of major events that happen in our lives, and thus help guide us in key circumstance, possibly. I’d like to think that’s why many of them endured for so long?
idk but reading about it led me to the Aarne-Thompson-Uther index of story types which is available free online: https://edition.fi/kalevalaseura/catalog/book/763
wow, thank you for that…
Kinda like the International seed-bank, right?