- A dead mother visits her baby at night and when the caretaker woman and father waited up to see why it stopped crying, the baby died at dawn
- Could expand on how the house became so scary right when the ghost mother visited
- It would be fun to change the story to a modern setting for all of the things that the wife would not do
- Could tell the story from the imp's point of view as it went around to the houses making people ill and being very sly and cunning
- A miser borrowed a copeck from a poor man and pretended to be dead when the miser came by to get his copeck back
- Could actually have Marko be killed by the robbers and have him be stuck following the poor man around as a ghost and seeing how happy he is, even though he's poor
- The woman did not pay due reverence to Mother Friday so it would be funny to have her enter in the night and play all sorts of pranks on the woman (like kids did at camp)
- A girl wandered far into a forest and was taken into a hut by the Leshy and put under its spell so that she did not remember he mother or father or how she got there
- Could tell the story of a typical day in the life in their hut while the Leshy provided for her
- The fool caught a magical pike in his pail one day and when he threw it back in, it granted him magical powers to do whatever he pleases
- It would be interesting to rewrite this in a modern day setting with him finding some critter that isn't a fish but has the same magical powers
Bibliography: Russian Fairy Tales , a collection of Muscovite folklore by Ralston
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