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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/pg22373/34/page/2/) [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/page/3/) - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/1/) — \[131\] Hahn, No. 26, i. 187. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/2/) — \[132\] Ibid., vol. ii. pp. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/3/) — 215, 294-5. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/4/) — \[133\] Vuk Karajich, No. 8. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/5/) — The monster is called in the Servian text an \_Ajdaya\_, a word meaning a dragon or snake. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/6/) — It is rendered by \_Drache\_ in the German translation of his collection of tales made by his daughter, but the word is evidently akin to the Sanskrit \_ahi\_, the Greek +echir echidna+, the Latin \_anguis\_, the Russian \_ujak\_, the Luthanian \_angis\_, etc. The Servian word \_snaga\_ answers to the Russian \_sila\_, strength. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/7/) — \[134\] Miss Frere's "Old Deccan Days," pp. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/8/) — 13-16. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/9/) — \[135\] Castren's "Ethnologische Vorlesungen ueber die Altaischen Voelker," p. 174. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/10/) — \[136\] The story has been translated by M. de Rouge in the "Revue Archeologique," 1852-3, p. 391 (referred to by Professor Benfey, "Panchatantra," i. 426) and summarized by Mr. Goodwin in the "Cambridge Essays" for 1858, pp. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/11/) — 232-7, and by Dr. Mannhardt in the "Zeitschrift fuer deutsche Mythologie," &c., vol. iv. pp. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/12/) — 232-59. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/13/) — For other versions of the story of the Giant's heart, or Koshchei's death, see Professor R. Koehler's remarks on the subject in "Orient und Occident," ii. pp. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/14/) — 99-103. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/15/) — A singular parallel to part of the Egyptian myth is offered by the Hottentot story in which the heart of a girl whom a lion has killed and eaten, is extracted from the lion, and placed in a calabash filled with milk. " - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/16/) — The calabash increased in size, and in proportion to this, the girl grew again inside it." - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/17/) — Bleek's "Reynard the Fox in South Africa," p. 55. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/18/) — Cf. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/19/) — Radloff, i. 75; ii. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/20/) — 237-8, 532-3. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/21/) — \[137\] Khudyakof, No. 109. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/22/) — \[138\] Khudyakof, No. 110. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/23/) — \[139\] Afanasief, v. No. 42. - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/24/) — See also the \_Zagovor\_, or spell, "to give a good youth a longing for a fair maiden," ("Songs of the Russian People," p. 369,) in which "the Longing" is described as lying under a plank in a hut, weeping and sobbing, and "waiting to get at the white light," and is desired to gnaw its way into the youth's heart. - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/25/) — \[140\] For stories about house snakes, &c., see Grimm "Deutsche Mythologie," p. 650, and Tylor, "Primitive Culture," ii. pp. - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/26/) — 7, 217-220. - [27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/27/) — \[141\] Or \_Ujak\_. - [28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/28/) — Erlenvein, No. 2. - [29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/29/) — From the Tula Government. - [30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/30/) — \[142\] Grimm, "Deutsche Mythologie," 456. - [31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/31/) — For a description of the Rusalka and the Vodyany, see "Songs of the Russian People," pp. - [32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/32/) — 139-146. - [33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/33/) — \[143\] Afanasief, v. No. 23. - [34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/34/) — From the Voroneje Government. - [35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/35/) — \[144\] Three of the well-known servants of Fortunatus. - [36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/36/) — The eater-up (\_ob'egedat'\_ = to devour), the drinker-up (\_pit'\_ = to drink, \_opivat'sya\_, to drink oneself to death), and "Crackling Frost." - [37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/37/) — \[145\] \_Opokhmyelit'sya\_, which may be rendered, "in order to drink off the effects of the debauch." - [38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/38/) — \[146\] The Russian bath somewhat resembles the Turkish. - [39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/39/) — The word here translated "to scrub," properly means to rub and flog with the soft twig used in the baths for that purpose. - [40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/40/) — At the end of the ceremonies attended on a Russian peasant wedding, the young couple always go to the bath. - [41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/41/) — \[147\] A sort of pudding or jelly. - [42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/42/) — \[148\] Afanasief, v. No. 28. - [43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/43/) — In the preceding story, No. 27, the king makes no promise. - [44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/44/) — He hides his children in (or upon) a pillar, hoping to conceal them from a devouring bear, whose fur is of iron. - [45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/45/) — The bear finds them and carries them off. - [46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/46/) — A horse and some geese vainly attempt their rescue; a bull-calf succeeds, as in the former case. - [47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/47/) — In another variant the enemy is an iron wolf. - [48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/48/) — A king had promised his children a wolf. - [49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/49/) — Unable to find a live one, he had one made of iron and gave it to his children. - [50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/50/) — After a time it came to life and began destroying all it found, etc. An interesting explanation of the stories of this class in which they are treated as nature-myths, is given by A. de Gubernatis in his "Zoological Mythology," chap. i. sect. - [51](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/51/) — 4. - [52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/52/) — \[149\] Khudyakof, No. 17. - [53](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/53/) — \[150\] It has already been observed that the word \_chudo\_, which now means a marvel or prodigy, formerly meant a giant. - [54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/54/) — \[151\] Erlenvein, No. 6, pp. - [55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/55/) — 30-32. - [56](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/56/) — The Russian word \_idol\_ is identical with our own adaptation of +eidolou+. - [57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/57/) — \[152\] Khudyakof, No. 18. - [58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/58/) — \[153\] \_Zhidenok\_, strictly the cub of a \_zhid\_, a word which properly means a Jew, but is used here for a devil. - [59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/59/) — \[154\] Khudyakof, No. 118. - [60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/60/) — \[155\] \_Chort\_, a word which, as has been stated, sometimes means a demon, sometimes the Devil. - [61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/61/) — \[156\] Afanasief, viii. p. 343. - [62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/62/) — \[157\] "Old Deccan Days," pp. - [63](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/63/) — 34-5. - [64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/64/) — Compare with the conduct of the Cobra's daughter that of Angaraka, the daughter of the Daitya who, under the form of a wild boar, is chased underground by Chandasena. - [65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/65/) — Brockhaus's "Maehrchensammlung des Somadeva Bhatta," 1843, vol. i. pp. - [66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/66/) — 110-13. - [67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/67/) — \[158\] "Panchatantra," v. 10. - [68](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/68/) — \[159\] Upham's "Sacred and Historical Books of Ceylon," iii. - [69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/69/) — 287. - [70](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/70/) — \[160\] Afanasief says (\_P.V.S. - [71](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/71/) — \_ iii. - [72](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/72/) — 588), "As regards the word \_yaga\_ (\_yega\_, Polish \_jedza\_, \_jadza\_, \_jedzi-baba\_, Slovak, \_jenzi\_, \_jenzi\_, \_jezi-baba\_, Bohemian, \_jezinka\_, Galician \_yazya\_) it answers to the Sanskrit \_ahi\_ = snake." - [73](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/73/) — Shchepkin (in his work on "Russian Fable-lore," p. 109) says: "\_Yaga\_, instead of \_yagaya\_, means properly noisy, scolding, and must be connected with the root \_yagat'\_ = to brawl, to scold, still preserved in Siberia. - [74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/74/) — The accuracy of this etymology is confirmed by the use, in the speech of the common people, of the designation \_Yaga Baba\_ for a quarrelsome, scolding old woman." - [75](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/75/) — Kastorsky, in his "Slavonic Mythology," p. 138, starts a theory of his own. " - [76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/76/) — The name \_Yaga Baba\_, I take to be \_yakaya baba\_, \_nycyakaya baba\_, and I render it by \_anus quaedam\_." - [77](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/77/) — Bulgarin (Rossiya, ii. - [78](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/78/) — 322) refers the name to a Finnish root. - [79](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/79/) — According to him, "\_Jagga-lema\_, in Esthonian, means to quarrel or brawl, \_jagga-lemine\_ means quarrelling or brawling." - [80](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/80/) — There is some similarity between the Russian form of the word, and the Singalese name for a (male) demon, \_yaka\_, which is derived from the Pali \_yakkho\_, as is the synonymous term \_yakseya\_ from the Sanskrit \_yaksha\_ (see the valuable paper on Demonology in Ceylon by Dandris de Silva Gooneratne Modliar in the "Journal of the Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society," 1865-6). - [81](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/81/) — Some Slavonic philologists derive \_yaga\_ from a root meaning to eat (in Russian \_yest'\_). - [82](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/82/) — This corresponds with the derivation of the word \_yaksha\_ contained in the following legend: "The Vishnu Pur\[=a\]na, i. 5, narrates that they (the Yakshas) were produced by Brahm\[=a\] as beings emaciate with hunger, of hideous aspect, and with long beards, and that, crying out 'Let us eat,' they were denominated Yakshas (fr. - [83](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/83/) — \_jaksh\_, to eat)." - [84](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/84/) — Monier Williams's "Sanskrit Dictionary," p. 801. - [85](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/85/) — In character the Yaga often resembles a Rakshasi. - [86](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/86/) — \[161\] Afanasief, i. No. 3 b. From the Voroneje Government. - [87](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/87/) — \[162\] Khudyakof, No. 60. - [88](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/88/) — \[163\] See Grimm, \_KM. - [89](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/89/) — \_ iii. - [90](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/90/) — 97-8. - [91](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/91/) — Cf. - [92](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/92/) — R. Koehler in "Orient und Occident," ii. - [93](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/93/) — 112. - [94](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/94/) — \[164\] Grimm, No. 79. " - [95](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/95/) — Die Wassernixe." - [96](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/96/) — \[165\] Asbjoernsen and Moe, No. 14. - [97](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/97/) — Dasent, p. 362. " - [98](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/98/) — The Widow's Son." - [99](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/99/) — \[166\] Hahn, No. 1. - [100](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/100/) — \[167\] Campbell's "Tales of the West Highlands," No. 2. **1** [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/page/2/) [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/page/3/) - ← previous: [Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/33/) - next →: [Chapter III. 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