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From a very young age, Petro Shekerik-Donikiv, encouraged by his teacher Lukov Harmatii, began collecting ethnographic materials. He was the first Hutsul to take up this work. Until then, only visitors were interested in Hutsuls, and Hutsuls were not very interested, because they knew everything. But the visitors took only what they needed. Or as much as they could.

This book includes folk stories about opryshky collected by Petro Shekerik-Donikiv. In 1910, they were published in Ethnographic Collection No. 26, edited by Volodymyr Hnatiuk. There were 17 authors in that collection. Each of them recorded and submitted a shosse to the collection. Some more, some less. The total number of stories was 258. But 104 of these stories were recorded by Shekerik-Donikov. This is already a lot, as you can see in this book, and this volume gives you a good idea of who these people were and what time they lived in.

At the same time, Shekerik-Donikov recorded his stories in the words he heard from those who told them, in the purest Hutsul dialect. In this book, we have not only stories about the opryshky, but also the language they spoke.