Нечистая, неведомая и крестная сила

Kniga vydayushchegosya rossiyskogo etnografa, folklorista i pisatelya Sergeya Vasilevicha Maksimova (18311901) Nechistaya, nevedomaya i krestnaya sila, vpervye izdannaya v 1903 g., vvodit chitatelya v udivitelnyy mir russkikh narodnykh sueveriy, verovaniy, prazdnestv i obryadov, gde khristianskie motivy tesno perepletayutsya s yazycheskimi. V etoy rabote, ostayushcheysya tsennym istochnikom etnograficheskikh svedeniy i dlya sovremennykh issledovateley, nauchnaya tochnost i glubina okhvata materiala sochetayutsya s yarkim, koloritnym, zhivym obraznym yazykom, na kotorom avtor vedet uvlekatelnyy rasskaz o personazhakh russkoy demonologii, o magicheskikh silakh prirody i o prazdnikakh khristianskogo kalendarya.