Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore
Chapter III.
MYTHOLOGICAL.
Miscellaneous Impersonifications.
Somewhat resembling the picture usually drawn of the supernatural Witch in the Skazkas, is that which some of them offer of a personification of evil called Likho.[224] The following story, belonging to the familiar Polyphemus-cycle, will serve to convey an idea of this baleful being, who in it takes a female form.