![]() ![]() Fiercely devout, city-bred, Vasilisa's new stepmother forbids her family from honoring the household spirits. ![]() ![]() Wise Russians fear him, her nurse says, and honor the spirits of house and yard and forest that protect their homes from evil.Īfter Vasilisa's mother dies, her father goes to Moscow and brings home a new wife. Above all, she loves the chilling story of Frost, the blue-eyed winter demon, who appears in the frigid night to claim unwary souls. But Vasilisa doesn't mind-she spends the winter nights huddled around the embers of a fire with her beloved siblings, listening to her nurse's fairy tales. At the edge of the Russian wilderness, winter lasts most of the year and the snowdrifts grow taller than houses. ![]()
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