![]() ![]() While most people have converted to Christianity, they still keep the old ways of setting food aside for the spirits who keep them safe. When the young woman becomes the mistress of the house, she sees the household spirits and forbids anyone from honoring them. She feels she sees demons everywhere and only feels comfortable in a church. He comes home, however, with the prince’s daughter, a young woman who would much rather be secreted away in a convent. Her father decides one day he should choose another wife, and he goes down to the court of the grand prince, his late wife’s half-brother, to look for a suitable woman. She has something of the supernatural to her, as did her mother’s mother, and she loves to be outdoors, talking to the spirits of the yard and forest and water. Her mother died when she was a baby, but she has her older siblings and her family’s nurse to care for her. ![]() Vasilisa is the youngest child of a well-to-do landowner in the Russian wilderness. ![]()
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