Viy

Viy - there is a colossal creation of the popular imagination. This whole story is a
folk tradition. I didn’t want to change it in anything and I tell it almost in the same
simplicity as I heard it.
- Note by N. V. Gogol
Viy is in Ukrainian mythology a character from the underworld, whose gaze kills. His
eyes are usually covered with huge eyelids and eyelashes, which he cannot lift
without help. In Gogol's work, Viy is squat, clubfoot; with sinewy arms and legs like
strong roots; all in black earth; with iron fingers and face; long eyelids down to the
ground. His appearance is preceded by a wolf howl. He does not kill with a glance,
but rather removes the effect of all amulets from evil spirits when looking at him.
He is, as it were, a guide, not the killer himself. And the main character of the story
Khoma dies not from the gaze of Viy, but from his own fear.
Specifically, my work shows only the final scene of the story. The climax itself.