The legend of St. Sisinius: interpretations in folk-ortodox believes of slavic populalation and Komi of Ural-Siberian region (in the late XIX-early XX c.)
The paper deals with the problem of the relations between the motif of demonic woman-turnskin in christian apocrypha and in folklore. The image of the demon may underlie a number of images of slavic demonology (stryga, veschunya - the demonic woman, witch, transforming herself into a bird). The author reveals that this image is related to the ominous bird (crow, magpie) whose images are frequent in the Komi folklore.