Hello, Alexey
How interesting that you included
Father Sergius and his chopped finger ( an excelent movie about him,
"Night Sun", following the story by Tolstoy, was directed by the
Taviani Brothers).
I didn't remember Van mentioned it.
In Psychoanalysis there is a very
famous case, "The Wolfman", in which the patient as a young boy had had
a hallucinatory experience in which his finger had been cut off and
dangled held only by a shred of skin.
Many books were written about Freud's
patient and Carlo Ginzburg connected his story and symptomatology to
various Slav cultural influences and legends.
Freud's "Wolfman's" real name
was Serguei Pankejeff! Only after his death in 1979 did his real name
become known. So, the name common to both must have been just a
coincidence.
Jansy