Vladimir Ivanovich Dahl was not only probably the most famous Russian lexicographer. All his life he collected and carefully kept sayings and sayings, which in the future formed the basis of his famous "Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language," as well as descriptions of folk rites and customs, wonderful stories, mysterious beliefs and superstitions, prejudices and traditions, from which he compiled the book "On beliefs, superstitions and prejudices of the Russian people," first published as a separate publication in 1880