The collection of articles by one of the largest modern Slavists, academician Nikita Ilyich Tolstoy, includes works in the field of Slavic ethnolinguistics - a linguistic discipline closely related to cultural history, mythology, folklore, ethnography, ethnic psychology, and the theory of ethnogenesis. Here are theoretical articles on general disciplinary issues; studies on archaic rituals, symbolism of objects and actions; notes on Slavic demonology; works devoted to the word in the context of culture, Slavic phraseology, semiotics of folklore.