The Witch of Konotop - by Hryhoriy Kvitka-Osnovyanenko (Paperback)

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About the Book The Witch of Konotop by Hryhoriy Kvitka-Osnovyanenko is a beloved, classic Ukrainian comic novella that is little known outside of Ukraine. Book Synopsis Konotop, some time in the eighteenth century. Captain Mykyta Ulasovych Zabryokha commands a hundred Kozaks and cannot count past thirty. His scribe, Prokip Ryhorovych Pistryak, answers every question in a fog of archaic church language that his captain does not understand and is too proud to admit he does not understand. Between them they decide that the drought punishing the town must be the work of witches, and that the sensible course is to round up the local women and throw them in the pond. What follows is one of the fu…