[3] A young woman named Marusia goes to a feast where she meets a kind, handsome and apparently wealthy man.
Her grandmother explains a way by which Marusia can come back to life after she dies (a condition of which is that she cannot enter a church afterwards).
On coming back to life she meets a good man whom she marries, however he does not like the fact that she will not go to church and eventually forces her to do so.
The tale is classified in the Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index as tale type ATU 363, "The Vampire" or "The Corpse-Eater",[4][5] while in the East Slavic Folktale Classification (Russian: СУС, romanized: SUS) it is indexed as type SUS 363, Russian: Жених-упыръ, romanized: Zhenikh-upyr, lit.
[7][8][9] The original name of the tale, Упырь, is the word for "vampire" in Slavic languages.