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- ↑ Barber, Elizabeth J. W. “On the Origins of the vily/rusalki.” Varia on the Indo-European Past: Papers in Memory of Marija Gimbutas (Journal of Indo-European Studies Monograph Ser. 19). Ed. Miriam Robbins Dexter and Edgar C. Polomé. Washington D.C.: Study of Man, 1997.
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