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	Koschei - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In Russian mythology, Koschei (Russian: Коще́й, Koshchey) is an evil person of ugly senile appearance, menacing principally young women.
		The separate object is known as a phylactery.
		There is also a demon lord named "Koshchei", who is worshipped as a god by certain evil monster races, but he does not appear to be related to the phenomenon of liches.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Koshchei (860 words)

	Koshchei
		A symbol of death and magic in Russian mythology, Koshchei the Deathless (also Kashchej) is a powerful wizard or demigod who gains immortality by keeping his fiery soul hidden inside an egg.
		Koshchei's dwelling is beyond thrice-nine countries, in the thirtieth kingdom, where he is entertained by his captive women and the legendary self-playing harp.
		Koshchei travels on a war-horse who aids its master with clairvoyance, or else he journeys alone in the form of a whirlwind.
	www.pantheon.org /articles/k/koshchei.html (316 words)

	Tempt Not The Stars: Pribitye sector
		Koshchei is a cold but otherwise pleasant world, with a thin but oxygen-rich atmosphere and a 16-hour day.
		All adult citizens are (without the option) members of the Koshchei Armed Forces and are organised on a military basis; a "platoon" might consist of all the people living in a single street, while a "regiment" would be everyone in a city.
		In truth, the Koshchei Armed Forces would be hard put to it to do more than defend their world, but any invader would face years of guerilla warfare.
	tekeli.li /temptnot/pribitye.html (1703 words)

	Jurgen -- Chapter 50 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Koshchei the Deathless was very grave as he sat there, in meditation, drumming with his long jet-fl fingers upon the table-top that was curiously inlaid with thirty pieces of silver.
		So Koshchei removed his dressing-gown, and he put on the fine laced coat which was hung over the back of a strange looking chair with three legs, each of a different metal; the shirt of Nessus Koshchei folded and put aside saying that some day he might be able to use it somehow.
		And Koshchei talked as they went; and a queer thing Jurgen noticed, and it was that the moon was sinking in the east, as though the time were getting earlier and earlier.
	www.litrix.com /jurgen/jurge050.htm (1792 words)

	Russian Fairy Tales (Part II) by Helen Pilinovsky — Autumn 2004 Journal of Mythic Arts, Endicott Studio
		Koshchei promptly kidnaps Marya for his own, leaving Ivan to try to reclaim her.
		This time she informs him that the reason they cannot flee fast enough to escape Koshchei is because he rides a stallion that was a gift from Baba Yaga, and Ivan resolves to acquire a stallion from Baba Yaga himself.
		Eventually, Ivan and Baba Yaga are admitted to Koshchei's palace on the strength of his impersonation of his father and the puzzlement it causes.
	www.endicott-studio.com /rdrm/rrBabaYaga3.html (1464 words)

	Let us celebrate James Branch Cabell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Well, Koshchei sat there alone in the void, looking not very happy, and looking puzzled, and drumming upon his knee, and staring at the little bent grey woman, who was busied with her children and grandchildren, and had forgotten all about him.
		Koshchei opened the Bible, and read the Revelation of St. John the Divine, while Steinvor talked with her illusions.
		Then Koshchei smiled and created Heaven about Steinvor and her illusions, and he made Heaven just such a place as was described in the book.
	ilx.wh3rd.net /thread.php?msgid=4684202 (2454 words)

	Section III.--Storyland Beings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In a Polish version of the "Sleeping Beauty," it is Koshchei who carries off the Princess, and throws her, as well as all the inhabitants of her father's kingdom, into a magic slumber.
		Koshchei begs for water, saying he has hung there without drinking for ten years; and when he has obtained it, and has drunk his fill, he recovers his lost strength, bursts his chains, and flies away, carrying off the Queen as he goes.
		Koshchei is the storm which is bound by the iron or icy chains of winter, and so has lost its strength.
	www.allstarz.org /religioustext/neu/srp/srp07.htm (5660 words)

	The Serene Dragon : Russia - Kashchei / Koshchei / Kashtshei
		Koshchei takes Maryna prisoner and it takes Ivan 3 tries to rescue her and kill Koshchei.
		Ivan manages to rescue her several times but always Koshchei gets her back using his magic horse given to him by Baba Yaga, a witch living beyond the river of fire.
		Ivan goes to Baba Yaga and after tending the horses for 3 days she gives him one and with the use of a magic hadkerchief a bridge is built across the river of fire so he can return to the castle, crack Koshchei's skull and save his love.
	www.theserenedragon.net /Tales/russia-kashchei.html (714 words)

	Jurgen -- Chapter 42 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Some years ago (said the God of Jurgen's grandmother) it was reported to Koshchei that scepticism was abroad in his universe, and that one walked therein who would be contented with no rational explanation.
		Of Coth she told him, of her only son, confessing Coth was the finest boy that ever lived,--"a little wild, sir, at first, but then you know what boys are,"--and telling of how well Coth had done in business and of how he had even risen to be an alderman.
		Well, Koshchei sat there alone in the void, looking not very happy, and looking puzzled, and drumming upon his knee, and staring at the little bent gray woman, who was busied with her children and grandchildren, and had forgotten all about him.
	www.litrix.com /jurgen/jurge042.htm (2804 words)

	Tolen Mar » 7th Sea RPG Adventures
		The immortal sorcerer Koshchei is finally driven to intervene.
		Molhyna is his home, and though often leaves mortal affairs to sort themselves out, Koshchei hires the heroes to deliver a series of four letters to important figures.
		Koshchei can trust these people to organize a result, and plans are well underway.
	www.chirographum.com /tolenmar/?p=213 (1088 words)

	The Red Fairy Book - The Death of Koshchei the Deathless - Andrew Lang - Read Print
		Koshchei drank it up and asked for a third, and when he had swallowed the third bucketful, he regained his former strength, gave his chains a shake, and broke all twelve at once.
		Koshchei the Deathless was returning home when his good steed stumbled beneath him.
		Koshchei galloped off, caught Prince Ivan, chopped him into little pieces, put them into a barrel, smeared it with pitch and bound it with iron hoops, and flung it into the blue sea.
	www.readprint.com /chapter-6692/Andrew-Lang (3294 words)

	SurLaLune Fairy Tales: Russian Wonder Tales by Post Wheeler
		Koshchei's horse is a hundredfold swifter than any other, and for this reason, try as oft as thou wilt, it is sure to overtake thee.
		Koshchei said: "On the shore of the blue sea-ocean there is a meadow, and upon it there courses up and down a wonderful mare.
		Maria Morevna listened attentively, and when Koshchei was asleep she took the fine handkerchief from the chest, brought it to Tsarevitch Alexei, and told him all the Wizard had said.
	www.surlalunefairytales.com /russian/russianwondertales/mariamorevna.html (4575 words)

	A Slavic Pantheon
		She is a warrior-princess who figures in one version of the Koshchei cycle.
		Ivan figures in a cycle of tales in several different versions, in which he inlists the aid of creatures he has formerly made a pact with in an initiatory gloss, to encompass the doom of Koshchei the Deathless and the rescue of his lady, Maria Morevna or Vasilisa the Wise, depending on the version.
		Not divine as such, she is the princess figure in one version of the Koshchei cycle.
	my.raex.com /~obsidian/SlavPan.html (2792 words)

	10pcs. set of"Frog Princess" by Aphanasic \| Russian Art from R a
		Prince Ivan, the youngest son, wanted his wife to remain a beautiful princess so he ran home and burned her discarded frog skin.
		When Vasilisa discovered his crime, she sadly told him that now she would have to become the prisoner of the sorcerer Koshchei the Deathless, and she disappeared.
		Koshchei’s death was well-hidden at the point of a needle, in an egg, in a duck, in a rabbit, in a chest at the top of an oak tree.
	www.randlltd.com /product_info.php/products_id/875 (468 words)

	Ivan and the Gray Wolf (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Gray Wolf was dying, and nothing else mattered to Ivan anymore, not the egg with the mortality of Koshchei, not the quest of his father the tsar.
		Later the only thing Ivan remembered of his walk back to the castle of Koshchei was pain, but the pain held him awake, the pain made him go on.
		When he reached the castle of bones, at the border between the chaotic lands and the world as it is, he knocked at the door of Koshchei’s castle.
	www.bewilderingstories.com /special/contests/contest1/ivan_gray_wolf.html (2356 words)

	CHAPTER XLIX
		To the strong man, and to wholesome matter-of-fact people generally, it is a fatal irritant; but persons like you can wear the shirt of Nessus very comfortably for a long, long whil e, and be generally admired; and you end by exchanging it for your wife's society.
		So Koshchei removed his dressing-gown, and he put on the fine laced coat which was hung over the back of a strange-looking chair with three legs, each of a different metal; the shirt of Nessus Koshchei folded and put aside, saying that some day he migh t be able to use it somehow.
		And Koshchei talked as they went; and a queer thing Jurgen noticed, and it was that the moon was sinking in t he east, though the time were getting earlier and earlier.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~HYPER/CABELL/ch49.htm (1742 words)

	Avengers 2000 Presents: The Invaders (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Koshchei the Deathless rides on his mount past the combatants, rushing towards Captain America and Bucky, who stand together.
		Their attack is coordinated perfectly, as Cap catches his returned shield, and bears down on Koshchei with a look of grim determination etched upon his features.
		Koshchei grabs Cap by the front of the shirt and throws him into a solid oak tree.
	www.ironrodstudio.com /av2000/issue.asp?issueid=243 (4942 words)

	FolkTales May 1995
		Prince Ivan answered, “You old hag, it would be better if you first gave me a drink, fed me, steamed me in the banya, and then asked this question.” That she did, so Prince Ivan told her of his search for Vasilisa the Wise.
		Your wife is now with Koshchei the Deathless," said Baba-Yaga.
		Prince Ivan went to Koshchei’s palace of white stone.
	www.worldandi.com /wwft/1995/3_May/Html/page10.htm (361 words)

	The Frog Princess - History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Koshchei is more than a match for you.
		The needle is in an egg; the egg is in a duck; the duck is in a hare; the hare is in a stone casket; the casket is at the top of a tall oak tree that Koshchei the Deathless guards as the apple of his eye."
		The more he bent it, the more Koshchei the Deathless writhed and screamed, but all in vain.
	maxpages.com /russianmyths/The_Story_of_the_Frog_Princess - !http://www.maxpages.com/russianmyths/The_Story_of_the_Frog_Princess (2331 words)

	SurLaLune Fairy Tales: Russian Wonder Tales by Post Wheeler
		It is, however, bootless to war against him, for his Palaces are, each and every one, surrounded by enchantment, and Koshchei himself cannot be killed by mortal means, since he carries his life not in his body, but in a secret place that is known only to himself.
		At length he came, through fen and morass, to a desert land where only earth and sky were to be seen and the sand was as hot as cinder-cakes, and here his host vanished one by one till but ten remained.
		The egg is in a duck, and the duck is in a hare, and the hare nests in a great hollow log that floats in a pond in a forest of the island Bouyan." Having thus spoken, Koshchei put his head on the Tsaritsa's knees and slept, and soon, awaking, bade her farewell and departed.
	www.surlalunefairytales.com /russian/russianwondertales/tsarevitchpetr.html (5080 words)

	Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Quote: James Branch Cabell (1) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Then Satan, sitting erect and bleak in his tall marble chair, explained how he, and all the domain and all the infernal hierarchies he ruled, had been created extempore by Koshchei, to humor the pride of Jurgen's forefathers.
		And Koshchei happened to notice Earth once upon a time, with your forefathers walking about it exultant in the enormity of their sins and the terrible punishments they expected in requital.
		Now Koshchei will do almost anything to humor pride, because to be proud is one of the two things that are impossible to Koshchei.
	www.autodidactproject.org /quote/jurgen1.html (268 words)

	Pskov 2001
		She told him that to free his wife from the clutches of Koshchei the Deathless, he would have to kill Koshchei.
		He sensed Koshchei was sneaking up on him and he twirled around and plunged the needle into the heart of the villain.
		So much time had padded that she was free of the spell and able to join Ivan.
	www.ncsu.edu /chass/extension/pskov2001/frog2.html (1042 words)

	An Off-Topic Ramble. In the Pipeline:
		.And of a sudden Jurgen perceived that this Koshchei the Deathless was not particularly intelligent.
		Koshchei was omnipotent, as men estimate omnipotence: but by what course of reasoning had people come to believe that Koshchei was clever, as men estimate cleverness?
		The fact that, to the contrary, Koshchei seemed well-meaning, but rather slow of apprehension and a little needlessly fussy, went far toward explaining a host of matters which had long puzzled Jurgen.
	www.corante.com /pipeline/archives/2005/08/07/an_offtopic_ramble.php (6047 words)

	Russian Fairy Tales: The Frog Princess (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Vasilisa sadly told him that now she would have to become the prisoner of the sorcerer Koshchei the Deathless, and she disappeared.
		Searching for her in the forest, Prince Ivan spared several animals who promised to help him in the future.
		Although Ivan could not get the chest out of the tree himself, the animals he had spared broke each thing open until Ivan had the egg.
	www.lacquerbox.com /frogprincess-short.htm (355 words)

	In Russian mythology Russian mythology especially in the Caucasus Caucasus region... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In Russian mythology Russian mythology, especially in the Caucasus Caucasus region, "Koshchei" (Коще́й) is an evil spirit with a terrible appearance, menacing principally young women.
		In Neil Gaiman Neil Gaiman's "American Gods", Koschei is referenced as an evil wizard.
		In Robert Heinlein Robert Heinlein's ", Koshchei is the supreme over-deity who presides over Jehovah Jehovah and Loki Loki.
	www.biodatabase.de /Koshchei (174 words)

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		Koshchei is the Russian mythological guardian of treasure.It is a really suck job because he cannot leave the booty, he is stuck there.
		If koshchei gets hungry he can't run to McDonald's, he has to wait till someone comes to steal the treasure then he kills them and eats them.
	www.worth1000.com /cache/gallery/contestcache.asp?contest_id=8129 (632 words)

	Amazon.ca: Tale Of The Firebird: Books: Gennady Spirin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Their adventures take them to far-off kingdoms, to Baba Yaga's chicken-footed cottage and to the battlefield of Koshchei the Immortal.
		Able to snatch only a single feather, he embarks on a quest to find the bird, accompanied by a faithful wolf with magical powers.
		In the course of the quest, he is also required to search for a horse with a golden mane, and battle Koshchei the Immortal to rescue Yelena the Beautiful.
	www.amazon.ca /Tale-Firebird-Gennady-Spirin/dp/0399235841 (692 words)

	The Meaning of it All - TechIMO Forums
		And he, no doubt--even Koshchei who made things as they are,--is in turn the lout of some larger jest."
		How should I? But I think that all of us take part in a moving and a shifting and a reasoned using of the things which are Koshchei's, a using such as we do not comprehend, and are not fit to comprehend."
		"And Koshchei who directs this infinite moving of puppets may well be the futile harried king in some yet larger game."
	www.techimo.com /forum/showthread.php?p=584374&mode=linear (438 words)

	Russian Lacquer Art Gallery
		In the left upper corner Ivan Tsarevich sails to Kochchei’s kingdom, holding the map in his hands.
		Inside this casket there is the gold key with the help of which Ivan can open the gates of Koshchei’s palace.
		In the right bottom corner the artist depicts the Wolf who shows Ivan the way to its oak, and the wise owl who helps him to take the key out of the casket.
	www.russiancollect.com /cnt/Palekh/0500/001909 (313 words)

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