Writer, translator, local historian Yuri Vinnichuk for the first time collected under one cover everything that could be found about the unique city in the folklore records of the past. The fantastic world of Lvov, inhabited by spirits, devils, witches, is closely intertwined in legends with the real world, in which historical figures live - kings, burgomasters, warlocks and batyars. Ancient Lviv appears before us as a unique phenomenon of world culture, a source of the richest urban folklore and cheerful humor.