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Old Belief
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Charred timbers collapsed into a heap of ash where a barn has burned, smoke still rising, snow and a surviving log house around it

the barn the morning after

Barns burned. The spirit is the reason given, and the rules about when not to light the fire are the practical content of the belief.

Basis: Barn fires in the Russian countryside · AI-generated

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