Always associated with magic. Its trembling leaves give it a weird appearance.
Russian witch, also Yagá-Búra.
The grandmother.
This word also means velvet.
Father in a general sense, meaning anybody older. Otéts is father, meaning the relationship of father and son.
The Russian folktale expression for asking for the moon.
This may be translated earls, but in the Russian social scale it only meant the bigger men, the seigneurs.
Countesses, feminine plural of boyár.
The Old Man of the Sea. This is a very clear loan from the Homeric Proteus.
Uncle. A term of respect.