- ^ Or "billet" (полено).
- ^ Khoma overhears the rector thanking the gifts and advising the Cossack to bind Khoma so he does not flee.
- ^ In Gogol's works, the magic protective circle is a reference to "chur", a magical boundary that evil cannot cross, according to Christopher R. Putney.[6] However, "chur" is a magic protective word according to other sources.[7]
- ^ Transliterated as "ved'ma/pannočka" in Rancour-Laferriere's paper.
- ^ The other motifs being the killing of the witch, dueling with corpse,[17] three nights of prayer over dead girl, evil spirits attacking hero at night.[18]
- ^ For example, "attempt at mystification", Setchkarev (1965), p. 147) or "a typical Gogolian mystification" Erlich (1969), p. 68, cited by Rancour-Laferriere (1978), p. 214; "a Ukrainian name for a metonymically displaced nothing" (Romanchuk (2009), p. 308–309).
- ^ Aleksandra's "Memoirs" were not of her own making, but actually assembled by her daughter Olga (who wasn't born until 1834).[28]
- ^ Rancour-Laferriere's analysis (p. 227, loc. cit.) is philological (as elsewhere). The Cossack sotnik interrogates what the young man's relationship was with his daughter, because the girl's dying words which trailed off was "He [Khoma] knows.." Rancour-Laferriere then seizes on the word ved'ma for 'witch', which has been glossed as synonym with spoznavshayasya(спознавшаяся) that contains a {-znaj} (знай) 'know' root.
- ^ Driessen stipulated that a psychoanalytic interpretation could be undertaken, but was not delving into this himself.
- ^ Ivanov (1971) suggested connection with the Ukrainian vyty (вити, cog. вити 'twist') as root.[50] This has resulted in Rancour-Laferriere stating the "Ukrainian vyty can theoretically yield viy",[51] and Romanchuk discovering the existence of a Ukrainian word viy though it only means "bundle (of brush, etc.)", and tying it to the vyty root.[52]
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