Pannochka

This is gift for my dear friend
the 200th anniversary of great Russian writer Nikolai Gogol's birth. On motives of the story "Viy"

A rich Cossack’s daughter was found crawling home near death, her last wish being for Khoma the philosopher to come and read psalms over her corpse for three days after her death.
When he is shown the corpse, however, he finds it is the witch he overcame earlier in the story. Rumors among the Cossacks are that the daughter was in league with the devil and they tell horror stories about her evil ways, such as previously riding on another person, drinking blood, and cutting off the braids of village girls.

On the night, when the Cossacks take her body to a ruined church, he is somewhat frightened but calms himself a bit when he lights up more candles in the church to eliminate most of the darkness, other than that above him. As he begins to say prayers, he imagines to himself that the corpse is getting up, but it never does. Suddenly, however, he looks up and finds that the witch is sitting up in her coffin. She begins to walk around, reaching out for someone, and starts to approach to Khoma, but he draws a circle of protection around himself that she cannot cross. She gnashes her teeth at him as he begins to exorcise her, and then she goes into her coffin and flies about the church in it, trying to frighten him out of the circle. Dawn arrives, and he has survived the first night.

Credits:

Model - - [link]

Chapel - - [link]

Candle - - [link]

monster - - [link]

Coffin - - [link]

Khoma and other details - my stock and painted