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This article offers a comprehensive description of the ritual and everyday practices related to the use of religious casting among Komi Old Believers. The study is based on the author's fi eld materials (interviews with informants, personal observations, photographs, and video materials), collected during ethnographic expeditions of 1999–2007 in the Udora, Ust-Kulom, and Troitse-Pechorsk Regions of...