Russian Fairy Tales

About this eBook

Translator

Ralston, William Ralston Shedden, 1828-1889

Title

Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore

Original Publication

New York : Hurst & Co., [aft. 1872]

Credits

Produced by David Starner, Sam W. and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

LoC Class

GR: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation: Folklore

Subject

Folklore -- Russia

Category

Text

eBook-No.

22373

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22373

Release Date

August 22, 2007

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Russian Fairy Tales.
2. 2.A CHOICE COLLECTION —OF— MUSCOVITE FOLK-LORE.
3. 3.W. R. S. RALSTON, M. A.,
4. 4.PREFACE. — FOOTNOTES:
5. 5.CONTENTS.
6. 6.STORY-LIST. — RUSSIAN FOLK-TALES.
7. 7.CHAPTER I. — INTRODUCTORY. — The Fiend. [18] — The Dead Mother. [24] — The Dead Witch. [26] — The Treasure. [31] — The Cross-Surety. [35] — The Awful Drunkard. [43] — The Bad Wife. [53] — The Golovikha. [55] — The Three Copecks. [56] — The Miser. [58] — The Fool and the Birch-Tree. [62] — The Mizgir. [66] — The Smith and the Demon. [69] — FOOTNOTES:
8. 8.CHAPTER II. — MYTHOLOGICAL. — Principal Incarnations of Evil. — Ivan Popyalof. [74] — The Norka. [85] — Marya Morevna. [101] — Koshchei the Deathless. [112] — The Water Snake. [141] — The Water King and Vasilissa the Wise. [143] — The Baba Yaga. [161] — Vasilissa the Fair. [182] — The Witch. [206] — The Witch and the Sun’s Sister. [216] — FOOTNOTES:
9. 9.CHAPTER III. — MYTHOLOGICAL. — Miscellaneous Impersonifications. — One-Eyed Likho. [224] — Woe. [233] — Friday. [253] — Wednesday. [255] — The Léshy. [264] — Vazuza and Volga. [268] — Sozh and Dnieper. — The Metamorphosis of the Dnieper, the Volga, and the Dvina . [272] — Frost. [277] — FOOTNOTES:
10. 10.CHAPTER IV. — MAGIC AND WITCHCRAFT. — The Blind Man and the Cripple. [318] — Princess Helena the Fair. [329] — Emilian the Fool. [351] — The Witch Girl. [358] — The Headless Princess. [364] — The Soldier’s Midnight Watch. [366] — The Warlock. [375] — FOOTNOTES:
11. 11.CHAPTER V. — GHOST STORIES. — The Fox-Physician. [380] — The Fiddler in Hell. [391] — The Ride on the Gravestone. [401] — The Two Friends. [402] — The Shroud. [404] — The Coffin-Lid. [408] — The Two Corpses. [409] — The Dog and the Corpse. [411] — The Soldier and the Vampire. [412] — FOOTNOTES:
12. 12.CHAPTER VI. — LEGENDS. — I — About Saints. — Elijah the Prophet and Nicholas. [444] — The Priest with the Greedy Eyes. [454] — II. — About Demons. — The Hasty Word. [470] — FOOTNOTES:
13. 13.INDEX.

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