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Observations

Documented events, historical claims and public reports. Event dates and review status are listed separately; unidentified does not mean extraterrestrial.

Event year, not the article publication date.

⌖   Children’s and adolescents’ folklore; multiple local variantsUndated folk tradition

Bloody Mary: a name before the mirror

A group describes a woman in a mirror and then tries to turn the story into an encounter; Mary’s identity and the rules vary between g…

Insufficient evidence#0243
⌖   Russian North and West Siberian settler traditionsUndated folk tradition

Kikimora: the uninvited spinner

A nocturnal spinner tangles work, rattles crockery and sometimes helps the housewife; a Vologda tale has a bear drive her away.

Insufficient evidence#0233
⌖   Russian North and local Siberian traditionsUndated folk beliefs recorded by ethnographers

Bannik: who owned the fourth steam

The bathhouse owner reserves a washing turn of his own and supposedly meets intruders with boiling water, stones and blows from a bath…

Insufficient evidence#0225