Author: Alevtina Solovyeva

Preface to the Special Issue: The Devine, the Demonic and the Beyond in Belief, Narrative and Practice of Central and East AsiaPreface to the Special Issue: The Devine, the Demonic and the Beyond in Belief, Narrative and Practice of Central and East Asia

The second International Multidisciplinary Conference Mongols: Traditions and Modernity took place on September 11–13, 2019 at the Russian State University for the Humanities (RSUH), Moscow.

This article looks at the perceptions of fear and ‘the frightening’ in contemporary Mongolian demonology. In the article, I discuss beliefs concerning both human and supernatural – what is supposed to be frightening for humans and what is supposed to b…