--- title: Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14 — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · full text with trees description: Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14, «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore»: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: So the smith forged her two iron teeth. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/) [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 14 # Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14 Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14 of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore»: the whole text, 152 sentences and 2573 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself; 1 of them are in the tales treebank and were checked by a teacher model. **1** [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/page/2/) - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/1/) — So the smith forged her two iron teeth. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/2/) — The witch returned and began gnawing the oak again. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/3/) — She gnawed, and gnawed, and was just on the point of gnawing it through, when Ivashko jumped out of it into another tree which stood beside it. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/4/) — The oak that the witch had gnawed through fell down to the ground; but then she saw that Ivashko was sitting up in another tree, so she gnashed her teeth with spite and set to work afresh, to gnaw that tree also. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/5/) — She gnawed, and gnawed, and gnawed--broke two lower teeth, and ran off to the forge. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/6/) — "Smith, smith!" she cried when she got there, "make me some iron teeth; if you don't I'll eat you!" - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/7/) — The smith forged two more iron teeth for her. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/8/) — She went back again, and once more began to gnaw the oak. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/9/) — Ivashko didn't know what he was to do now. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/10/) — He looked out, and saw that swans and geese\[210\] were flying by, so he called to them imploringly: - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/11/) — Oh, my swans and geese, Take me on your pinions, Bear me to my father and my mother, To the cottage of my father and my mother, There to eat, and drink, and live in comfort. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/12/) — "Let those in the centre carry you," said the birds. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/13/) — Ivashko waited; a second flock flew past, and he again cried imploringly: - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/14/) — Oh, my swans and geese! - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/15/) — Take me on your pinions, Bear me to my father and my mother, To the cottage of my father and my mother, There to eat, and drink, and live in comfort. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/16/) — "Let those in the rear carry you!" said the birds. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/17/) — Again Ivashko waited. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/18/) — A third flock came flying up, and he cried: - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/19/) — Oh, my swans and geese! - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/20/) — Take me on your pinions, Bear me to my father and my mother, To the cottage of my father and my mother, There to eat, and drink, and live in comfort. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/21/) — And those swans and geese took hold of him and carried him back, flew up to the cottage, and dropped him in the upper room. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/22/) — Early the next morning his mother set to work to bake pancakes, baked them, and all of a sudden fell to thinking about her boy. " - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/23/) — Where is my Ivashko?" she cried; "would that I could see him, were it only in a dream!" - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/24/) — Then his father said, "I dreamed that swans and geese had brought our Ivashko home on their wings." - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/25/) — And when she had finished baking the pancakes, she said, "Now, then, old man, let's divide the cakes: there's for you, father! there's for me! - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/26/) — There's for you, father! there's for me." - [27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/27/) — "And none for me?" called out Ivashko. - [28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/28/) — "There's for you, father!" went on the old woman, "there's for me." - [29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/29/) — "And none for me!" - [30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/30/) — \[repeated the boy.\] - [31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/31/) — "Why, old man," said the wife, "go and see whatever that is up there." - [32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/32/) — The father climbed into the upper room and there he found Ivashko. - [33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/33/) — The old people were delighted, and asked their boy about everything that had happened. - [34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/34/) — And after that he and they lived on happily together. - [35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/35/) — \[That part of this story which relates to the baking and eating of the witch's daughter is well known in many lands. - [36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/36/) — It is found in the German "Haensel und Grethel" (Grimm. - [37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/37/) — \_KM. - [38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/38/) — \_ No. 15, and iii. p. 25, where a number of parallels are mentioned); in the Norse "Askelad" (Asbjoernsen and Moe, No. 1. - [39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/39/) — Dasent, "Boots and the Troll," No. 32), where a Troll's daughter is baked; and "Smoerbuk" (Asb. and Moe, No. 52. - [40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/40/) — Dasent, "Buttercup," No. 18), in which the victim is daughter of a "Haugkjoerring," another name for a Troll-wife; in the Servian story of "The Stepmother," &c. (Vuk Karajich, No. 35, pp. - [41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/41/) — 174-5) in which two \_Chivuti\_, or Jews, are tricked into eating their baked mother; in the Modern Greek stories (Hahn, No. 3 and ii. p. 181), in which the hero bakes (1) a \_Drakaena\_, while her husband, the \_Drakos\_, is at church, (2) a \_Lamiopula\_, during the absence of the \_Lamia\_, her mother; and in the Albanian story of "Augenhuendin" (Hahn, No. 95), in which the heroine gets rid in a similar manner of Maro, the daughter of that four eyed +sykieneza+. - [42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/42/) — (See note, ii, 309.) - [43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/43/) — Afanasief also refers (i. p. 121) to Haltrich, No. 37, and Haupt and Schmaler, ii. pp. - [44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/44/) — 172-4. - [45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/45/) — He also mentions a similar tale about a giantess existing among the Baltic Kashoubes. - [46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/46/) — See also the end of the song of Tardanak, showing how he killed "the Seven Headed Jelbegen," Radloff, i. p. 31.\] - [47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/47/) — A variant of this story (from the Chernigof Government)\[211\] begins by telling how two old people were childless for a long time. - [48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/48/) — At last the husband went into the forest, felled wood, and made a cradle. - [49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/49/) — Into this his wife laid one of the logs he had cut, and began swinging it, crooning the while a rune beginning - [50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/50/) — Swing, blockie dear, swing. - [51](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/51/) — After a little time "behold! the block already had legs. - [52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/52/) — The old woman rejoiced greatly and began singing anew, and went on singing until the block became a babe." - [53](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/53/) — In this variant the boy rows a silver boat with a golden oar; in another South Russian variant\[212\] the boat is golden, the oar of silver. - [54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/54/) — In a White-Russian variant quoted by Afanasief (i. p. 118), the place of the witch's daughter is filled by her son, who had been in the habit of alluring to her den by gifts of toys, and there devouring, the children from the adjacent villages. - [55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/55/) — Buslaef's "Historical Essays," (i. pp. - [56](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/56/) — 313-321) contain a valuable investigation of Kulish's version of this story, which he compares with the romance of "The Knight of the Swan." - [57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/57/) — In another of the variants of this story\[213\] Ivanushka is the son of a Baruinya or Lady, and he is carried off in a whirlwind by a Baba Yaga. - [58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/58/) — His three sisters go to look for him, and each of them in turn finds out where he is and attempts to carry him off, after sending the Baba Yaga to sleep and smearing her eyelids with pitch. - [59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/59/) — But the two elder sisters are caught on their way home by the Baba Yaga, and terribly scratched and torn. - [60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/60/) — The youngest sister, however, succeeds in rescuing her brother, having taken the precaution of propitiating with butter the cat Jeremiah, "who was telling the boy stories and singing him songs." - [61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/61/) — When the Baba Yaga awakes, she tells Jeremiah to scratch her eyes open, but he refuses, reminding her that, long as he has lived under her roof, she has never in any way regaled him, whereas the "fair maiden" had no sooner arrived than she treated him to butter. - [62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/62/) — In another variant\[214\] the bereaved mother sends three servant-maids in search of her boy. - [63](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/63/) — Two of them get torn to pieces; the third succeeds in saving Ivanushka from the Baba Yaga, who is so vexed that she pinches her butter-bribed cat to death for not having awakened her when the rescue took place. - [64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/64/) — A comparison of these three stories is sufficient to show how closely connected are the Witch and the Baba Yaga, how readily the name of either of the two may be transferred to the other. - [65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/65/) — But there is one class of stories in which the \_Vyed'ma\_ is represented as differing from the Baba Yaga, in so far as she is the offspring of parents who are not in any way supernatural or inhuman. - [66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/66/) — Without any apparent cause for her abnormal conduct, the daughter of an ordinary royal house will suddenly begin to destroy and devour all living things which fall in her way--her strength developing as rapidly as her appetite. - [67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/67/) — Of such a nature--to be accounted for only on the supposition that an evil spirit has taken up its abode in a human body\[215\]--is the witch who appears in the somewhat incomprehensible story that follows. - [68](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/68/) — THE WITCH AND THE SUN'S SISTER. - [69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/69/) — \[216\] - [70](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/70/) — In a certain far-off country there once lived a king and queen. - [71](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/71/) — And they had an only son, Prince Ivan, who was dumb from his birth. - [72](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/72/) — One day, when he was twelve years old, he went into the stable to see a groom who was a great friend of his. - [73](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/73/) — That groom always used to tell him tales \[\_skazki\_\], and on this occasion Prince Ivan went to him expecting to hear some stories \[\_skazochki\_\], but that wasn't what he heard. - [74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/74/) — "Prince Ivan!" said the groom, "your mother will soon have a daughter, and you a sister. - [75](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/75/) — She will be a terrible witch, and she will eat up her father, and her mother, and all their subjects. — checked by a teacher - [76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/76/) — So go and ask your father for the best horse he has--as if you wanted a gallop--and then, if you want to be out of harm's way, ride away whithersoever your eyes guide you." - [77](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/77/) — Prince Ivan ran off to his father and, for the first time in his life, began speaking to him. - [78](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/78/) — At that the king was so delighted that he never thought of asking what he wanted a good steed for, but immediately ordered the very best horse he had in his stud to be saddled for the prince. - [79](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/79/) — Prince Ivan mounted, and rode off without caring where he went. - [80](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/80/) — \[217\] Long, long did he ride. - [81](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/81/) — At length he came to where two old women were sewing and he begged them to let him live with them. - [82](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/82/) — But they said: - [83](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/83/) — "Gladly would we do so, Prince Ivan, only we have now but a short time to live. - [84](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/84/) — As soon as we have broken that trunkful of needles, and used up that trunkful of thread, that instant will death arrive!" - [85](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/85/) — Prince Ivan burst into tears and rode on. - [86](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/86/) — Long, long did he ride. - [87](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/87/) — At length he came to where the giant Vertodub was,\[218\] and he besought him, saying: - [88](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/88/) — "Take me to live with you." - [89](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/89/) — "Gladly would I have taken you, Prince Ivan!" replied the giant, "but now I have very little longer to live. - [90](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/90/) — As soon as I have pulled up all these trees by the roots, instantly will come my death!" - [91](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/91/) — More bitterly still did the prince weep as he rode farther and farther on. - [92](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/92/) — By-and-by he came to where the giant Vertogor was, and made the same request to him, but he replied: - [93](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/93/) — "Gladly would I have taken you, Prince Ivan! but I myself have very little longer to live. - [94](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/94/) — I am set here, you know, to level mountains. - [95](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/95/) — The moment I have settled matters with these you see remaining, then will my death come!" - [96](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/96/) — Prince Ivan burst into a flood of bitter tears, and rode on still farther. - [97](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/97/) — Long, long did he ride. - [98](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/98/) — At last he came to the dwelling of the Sun's Sister. - [99](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/99/) — She received him into her house, gave him food and drink, and treated him just as if he had been her own son. - [100](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/100/) — The prince now led an easy life. **1** [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/32/page/2/) - 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