Viy

Three Kyiv seminary students went on vacation, deciding to earn a little extra by tutoring. But the trouble was—they got lost on the way and were forced to ask an old woman for a place to stay at one of the remote farmsteads. Homa Brut had to arrange lodgings in a barn. To the horror of the bursak, at the very moment when he was preparing to sleep, the landlady—who turned out to be a witch—showed up. She jumped on him and drove him across fields and ravines. Only constant reading of prayers helped Homa get rid of the witch. And when her spells were dispelled by morning, she collapsed on the ground in total exhaustion and turned into a beautiful girl. After everything he had endured, the bursak decided it would be better for him to return to Kyiv and spend the rest of the holidays in the seminary dormitory. But a few days later, the rector ordered him to go to a wealthy centurion to read prayers over his deceased beautiful daughter. When the young man arrived and looked at the dead girl’s face, he realized it was the same panichka-witch he had already had the misfortune to meet earlier.