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Old Belief
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Hand-coloured print pinned to a plank wall showing two crowned bird-women perched in an apple tree, their feathered bodies painted in flat red, green and ochre

the woodcut on the wall

The lubok — a cheap hand-coloured woodcut — is where most Russians met these figures. The picture came first and the stories followed it.

Basis: Russian lubok prints · AI-generated

More of this creature

Single apple branch in white and pink blossom against a bare white sky, no bird on it, two petals fallingthe apple branch →Two long bird feathers lying on whitewashed boards, one pale grey and one near black with a green sheen, angled slightly apart with their quills almost touchingtwo feathers side by side →