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INTRODUCTORY, part 8 · page 2 [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/18/) **2** - [101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/18/101/) — In Poggio's "Facetiae," the wife is doubly aggravating. - [102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/18/102/) — For copious information with respect to the use made of this story by the romance-writers, see Liebrecht's translations of Basile's "Pentamerone," ii. - [103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/18/103/) — 264, and of Dunlop's "History of Literature," p. 516. - [104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/18/104/) — \[48\] Afanasief, v. p. 16. - [105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/18/105/) — \[49\] Ibid., iii. p. 87. - [106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/18/106/) — \[50\] Chudinsky, No. 8. - [107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/18/107/) — The proverb is dear to the Tartars also. - [108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/18/108/) — \[51\] Ibid. - [109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/18/109/) — No. 23. - [110](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/18/110/) — The \_liulka\_, or Russian cradle, is suspended and swung, instead of being placed on the floor and rocked. - [111](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/18/111/) — Russian babies are usually swaddled tightly, like American papooses. - [112](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/18/112/) — \[52\] "Panchatantra," 1859, vol. i. Sec. 212, pp. - [113](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/18/113/) — 519-524. - [114](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/18/114/) — I gladly avail myself of this opportunity of gratefully acknowledging my obligations to Dr. Benfey's invaluable work. - [115](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/18/115/) — \[53\] Afanasief, i. No. 9. - [116](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/18/116/) — Written down in the Novgorod Government. - [117](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/18/117/) — Its dialect renders it somewhat difficult to read. - [118](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/18/118/) — \[54\] This story is known to the Finns, but with them the Russian Demon, (\_chortenok\_ = a little \_chort\_ or devil), has become the Plague. - [119](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/18/119/) — In the original Indian story the demon is one which had formerly lived in a Brahman's house, but had been frightened away by his cantankerous wife. - [120](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/18/120/) — In the Servian version (Karajich, No. 37), the opening consists of the "Scissors-story," to which allusion has already been made. - [121](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/18/121/) — The vixen falls into a hole which she does not see, so bent is she on controverting her husband. - [122](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/18/122/) — \[55\] Afanasief, ii. - [123](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/18/123/) — No. 12. - [124](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/18/124/) — Written down by a "Crown Serf," in the government of Perm. - [125](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/18/125/) — \[56\] Afanasief, viii. - [126](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/18/126/) — No. 20. - [127](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/18/127/) — A copeck is worth about a third of a penny. - [128](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/18/128/) — \[57\] The story is continued very little further by Afanasief, its conclusion being the same as that of "The Wise Wife," in Book vii. - [129](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/18/129/) — No. 22, a tale of magic. - [130](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/18/130/) — For a Servian version of the tale see Vuk Karajich, No. 7. - [131](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/18/131/) — \[58\] Afanasief, v. No. 3. - [132](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/18/132/) — From the Novgorod Government. - [133](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/18/133/) — \[59\] Literally, "has bid to live long," a conventional euphemism for "has died." " - [134](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/18/134/) — Remember what his name was," is sometimes added. - [135](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/18/135/) — \[60\] It will be observed that the miser holds out against the pain which the scalded demon was unable to bear. - [136](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/18/136/) — See above, p. 21. - [137](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/18/137/) — \[61\] Professor de Gubernatis remarks that he may sometimes be called "the first Brutus of popular tradition." " - [138](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/18/138/) — Zoological Mythology," vol. i. p. 199. - [139](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/18/139/) — \[62\] Afanasief, v. No. 53. - [140](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/18/140/) — \[63\] \_Zavtrakami podchivat\_ = to dupe; \_zavtra\_ = to-morrow; \_zavtrak\_ = breakfast. - [141](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/18/141/) — \[64\] One of the inferior members of the Russian clerical body, though not of the clergy. - [142](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/18/142/) — But in one of the variants of the story it is a "pope" or priest, who appears, and he immediately claims a share in the spoil. - [143](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/18/143/) — Whereupon the Simpleton makes use of his hatchet. - [144](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/18/144/) — Priests are often nicknamed goats by the Russian peasantry, perhaps on account of their long beards. - [145](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/18/145/) — \[65\] Afanasief, ii. - [146](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/18/146/) — No. 8, v. No. 5. - [147](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/18/147/) — See also Khudyakof, No. 76. - [148](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/18/148/) — Cf. - [149](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/18/149/) — Grimm, No. 34, "Die kluge Else." - [150](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/18/150/) — Haltrich, No. 66. - [151](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/18/151/) — Asbjoernsen and Moe, No. 10. - [152](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/18/152/) — (Dasent No. 24, "Not a Pin to choose between them.") - [153](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/18/153/) — \[66\] Afanasief, ii. - [154](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/18/154/) — No. 5. - [155](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/18/155/) — Written down by a crown-peasant in the government of Perm. - [156](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/18/156/) — \[67\] \_Mizgir\_, a venomous spider, like the Tarantula, found in the Kirghiz Steppes. - [157](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/18/157/) — \[68\] In another story bearing the same title (v. 39) the spider lies on its back awaiting its prey. - [158](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/18/158/) — Up comes "the honorable widow," the wasp, and falls straight into the trap. - [159](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/18/159/) — The spider beheads her. - [160](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/18/160/) — Then the gnats and flies assemble, perform a funeral service over her remains, and carry them off on their shoulders to the village of Komarovo (\_komar\_ = gnat). - [161](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/18/161/) — For specimens of the Russian "Beast-Epos" the reader is referred (as I have stated in the preface) to Professor de Gubernatis's "Zoological Mythology." - [162](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/18/162/) — \[69\] Afanasief, "Legendui," No. 31. - [163](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/18/163/) — Taken from Dahl's collection. - [164](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/18/164/) — Some remarks on the Russian "legends" are given in Chap. - [165](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/18/165/) — VI. - [166](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/18/166/) — \[70\] \_Baruinya\_, the wife of a \_barin\_ or seigneur. - [167](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/18/167/) — \[71\] The \_chort\_ of this legend is evidently akin to the devil himself, whom traditions frequently connect with blacksmiths; but his prototype, in the original form of this story, was doubtless a demigod or demon. - [168](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/18/168/) — His part is played by St. Nicholas in the legend of "The Priest with the Greedy Eyes," for which, and for further comment on the story, see Chap. - [169](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/18/169/) — VI. 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