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- ↑ Ladygin Mikhail Borisovich, Ladygina Olga Mikhaylovna 2003.
- 1 2 Gubernatis, Angelo de. Florilegio delle novelline popolari. Milano U. Hoepli. 1883. pp. 212-214.
- ↑ Vagurina, Lyudmila (1998). Славянская мифология [Slavic mythology] (in Russian). Linor & Sovershenstvo. ISBN 9785808900240.
- ↑ Erlenwein, A. A. Narodnyja skazki sobrannyja seljskimi uciteljami. Moscow: 1863.
- ↑ Brlic-Mazuranic, Ivana. Croatian tales of long ago. Translated by Fanny S. Copeland. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co.. 1922. pp. 256-257.
- ↑ Ralston, William Ralston Shedden. The songs of the Russian people, as illustrative of Slavonic mythology and Russian social life. London: Ellis & Green. 1872. p. 375.
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- Ladygin Mikhail Borisovich, Ladygina Olga Mikhaylovna (2003). "Brief mythological dictionary. Gagana" (in Russian).
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