![]() ![]() He drove them on and on with the supple lash of his voice until their answering voices broke and they listened like children frightened during a thunderstorm. He called it up before their eyes so that they saw themselves submitting to the judgment of God, and saw themselves damned and flung down.Īs he chanted, Konstantin pulled the crowd to him until they echoed his words in a daze of fascinated terror. ![]() He spoke of things they did not know, of devils and torments and temptation. He spoke to them of life and death, of God and of sin. "His voice was like thunder, yet he placed each syllable like Dunya setting stitches. Unfortunately for our protagonist Vasya, Konstantin is frighteningly effective: The villagers are forced to choose between their Christian beliefs and salvation or their mystic traditions of old and certain damnation. ![]() However the arrival of a new priest from Moscow changes the household completely as magic is essentially outlawed and the Christian Priest Konstantin is intent on purging devils and witches from the town. ![]() The villagers have been making offerings to the household spirits for generations and are wary of what dwells in the dense forests. Set in a bitterly cold winter in a small medieval village in Russia, The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden is full of Russian fairytales and folktales. ![]()
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