Koldun/Koldun'ia/Kolduny (m/f/pl): Are the Russian terms for "witch."
- The koldun, often known as a village witch or magician, is a local practitioner.
- Russian parish priests are instructed in the sixteenth century to find “women fortune-tellers and kolduny” and bring them over to secular legal authorities.
- The word is frequently used as a derogatory term and is generally used in a negative context.
- Kolduny are often depicted as dark, depressed, lonely practitioners with spoiling abilities.
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