\[ **up: [[Geography]] | [[Countries of the world]]** ] --- # Russia ## History [[2025-0405. 'All the evidence indicates that the roof is connected to ideas about the beyond.'|‘In central Russia, roofs were sometimes decorated with two small horses that would be removed when it was learned that a sorcerer was on his deathbed, as this would facilitate his death.’]][^1] [^1]: Claude Lecoueux, *[[Lecouteux. 'The Tradition of Household Spirits', 2000.|The Tradition of Household Sprits: Ancestral Lore and Practices]]*, trans. by Jon E. Graham (Rochester, VA: Inner Traditions, 2000), p. 39.