Old Belief
← Zmey Gorynych
Well-dressed young man standing at a courtyard gate, his shadow serpentine

the young man at the gate

On the ground he takes human form. The tales have him appear as a handsome youth, as a golden goat, and — least dignified and most domestic — as a broom or an oven fork.

Basis: Russian folktale accounts of the zmey's forms · AI-generated

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