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Episode 58: Leshy (Lesovik)
In Episode 58 we head deep into eastern Europe where the elders will tell you that the forest north of the last fence does not begin with trees. It begins with etiquette.
A woman from a Vologda parish, speaking to a collector more than a century ago, put it without poetry. You do not enter loud. You do not whistle. You ask. Bread and salt if you have them. A word if you do not. Les-lesochek, dai nam gribochok. Forest, little forest, give us a mushroom. Then you take what was offered and you thank the room you were allowed to stand in. The room has a landlord. In Russian he is most often Leshy…
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