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MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3 · page 2 [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/21/) **2** - [101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/21/101/) — Sometimes he is described as altogether serpent-like in form; sometimes he seems to be of a mixed nature, partly human and partly ophidian, but in some of the stories he is apparently framed after the fashion of a man. - [102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/21/102/) — His name is by some mythologists derived from \_kost'\_, a bone whence comes a verb signifying to become ossified, petrified, or frozen; either because he is bony of limb, or because he produces an effect akin to freezing or petrifaction. - [103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/21/103/) — \[99\] - [104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/21/104/) — He is called "Immortal" or "The Deathless,"\[100\] because of his superiority to the ordinary laws of existence. - [105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/21/105/) — Sometimes, like Baldur, he cannot be killed except by one substance; sometimes his "death"--that is, the object with which his life is indissolubly connected--does not exist within his body. - [106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/21/106/) — Like the vital centre of "the giant who had no heart in his body" in the well-known Norse tale, it is something extraneous to the being whom it affects, and until it is destroyed he may set all ordinary means of annihilation at defiance. - [107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/21/107/) — But this is not always the case, as may be learnt from one of the best of the skazkas in which he plays a leading part, the history of-- - [108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/21/108/) — MARYA MOREVNA. - [109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/21/109/) — \[101\] - [110](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/21/110/) — In a certain kingdom there lived a Prince Ivan. - [111](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/21/111/) — He had three sisters. - [112](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/21/112/) — The first was the Princess Marya, the second the Princess Olga, the third the Princess Anna. - [113](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/21/113/) — When their father and mother lay at the point of death, they had thus enjoined their son:--"Give your sisters in marriage to the very first suitors who come to woo them. - [114](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/21/114/) — Don't go keeping them by you!" - [115](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/21/115/) — They died and the Prince buried them, and then, to solace his grief, he went with his sisters into the garden green to stroll. - [116](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/21/116/) — Suddenly the sky was covered by a black cloud; a terrible storm arose. - [117](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/21/117/) — "Let us go home, sisters!" he cried. - [118](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/21/118/) — Hardly had they got into the palace, when the thunder pealed, the ceiling split open, and into the room where they were, came flying a falcon bright. - [119](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/21/119/) — The Falcon smote upon the ground, became a brave youth, and said: - [120](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/21/120/) — "Hail, Prince Ivan! - [121](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/21/121/) — Before I came as a guest, but now I have come as a wooer! - [122](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/21/122/) — I wish to propose for your sister, the Princess Marya." 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