Viy by Nikolai Gogol
Viy is the colossal creation of the common folk’s imagination. The Little Russians (Ukrainians) use this name for the chief of the gnomes, whose eyelids on his eyes reach all the way to the ground. This whole story is a folk legend. I did not want to change anything about it, so I am narrating it in almost the same simple form which I heard it. Nikolai Gogol, footnote to “Viy“ None of that is true. There are no Slavic…