kalym

Updated: May 7, 2025

The old man refreshed himself from the jug and continued: 'Do you see, it was like this. My father was not yet born, my grandfather was a little fellow for whom they were still collecting the "Kalym" when there came to this neighbourhood a Bilak with eyes of ice, a long beard and long moustaches; he settled here, not in the valley but up on yonder mountainside in the taiga.

- Selected Polish Tales