"A white person stands there — a sheet draped like this" (Novgorod region).

The "Harbinger in White" (in white clothes, a white robe, most often very tall) is one of the most popular characters in beliefs of the 19th and 20th centuries. In a narrative from the early 20th century in Arkhangelsk Governorate, the appearance of a woman in white in the hayloft precedes the demise of a young woman. In a contemporary narrative, a woman dressed in white comes out onto the road and foretells the future: "Someone started a rumor… Supposedly, a driver was going along, when suddenly his car stopped abruptly, and he saw a woman walking. Dressed all in white. She approached and asked him to buy half a meter of white material."

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Illustration: Viktor Borisov-Musatov — Ghosts — 1903