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In the village of Nikolskoye, a woman bore a son by a serpent. He was black, with hooves and bulging eyes without eyelids. The men deliberated for a while, then killed him and buried him in the earth.

D. N. Sadovnikov, Tales and Legends of the Samara Region (1884), no. 71c, p. 237; recorded from A. V. Chegodayev in Simbirsk
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