--- title: Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11 — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · full text with trees · page 2 description: Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11, «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore»: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: "Are you weaving, niece? are you weaving, my dear?" --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/29/page/2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collecti…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/) / Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11 # Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11 · page 2 [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/29/) **2** - [101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/29/101/) — A magic, bridge-creating kerchief, however, enables the fugitives to escape from their irritated mother-in-law. - [102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/29/102/) — In one story\[180\] the heroine is ordered to swing the cradle in which reposes a Baba Yaga's infant son, whom she is ordered to address in terms of respect when she sings him lullabies; in others she is told to wash a Baba Yaga's many children, whose appearance is usually unprepossessing. - [103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/29/103/) — One girl, for instance, is ordered by a Baba Yaga to heat the bath, but the fuel given her for the purpose turns out to be dead men's bones. - [104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/29/104/) — Having got over this difficulty, thanks to the advice of a sparrow which tells her where to look for wood, she is sent to fetch water in a sieve. - [105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/29/105/) — Again the sparrow comes to her rescue telling her to line the sieve with clay. - [106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/29/106/) — Then she is told to wait upon the Baba Yaga's children in the bath-room. - [107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/29/107/) — She enters it, and presently in come "worms, frogs, rats, and all sorts of insects." - [108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/29/108/) — These, which are the Baba Yaga's children, she soaps over and otherwise treats in the approved Russian-bath style, and afterwards she does as much for their mother. - [109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/29/109/) — The Baba Yaga is highly pleased, calls for a "samovar" (or urn), and invites her young bath-woman to drink tea with her. - [110](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/29/110/) — And finally she sends her home with a blue coffer, which turns out to be full of money. - [111](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/29/111/) — This present excites the cupidity of her stepmother, who sends her own daughter to the Baba Yaga's, hoping that she will bring back a similar treasure. - [112](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/29/112/) — The Baba Yaga gives the same orders as before to the new-comer, but that conceited young person fails to carry them out. - [113](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/29/113/) — She cannot make the bones burn, nor the sieve hold water, but when the sparrow offers its advice she only boxes its ears. - [114](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/29/114/) — And when the "rats, frogs, and all manner of vermin," enter the bath-room, "she crushed half of them to death," says the story; "the rest ran home, and complained about her to their mother." - [115](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/29/115/) — And so the Baba Yaga, when she dismisses her, gives her a red coffer instead of a blue one. - [116](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/29/116/) — Out of it, when it is opened, issues fire, which consumes both her and her mother. - [117](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/29/117/) — \[181\] [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/29/) **2** - ← previous: [Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/28/) - next →: [Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/30/) - ↑ back to [Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/)