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MYTHOLOGICAL, part 16 · page 2 [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/) **2** [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/page/3/) - [101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/101/) — \[168\] Toeppen's "Aberglauben aus Masuren," p. 146. - [102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/102/) — \[169\] Miss Frere's "Old Deccan Days," p. 63. - [103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/103/) — \[170\] "Kathasaritsagara," vii. ch. xxxix. - [104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/104/) — Translated by Wilson, "Essays," ii. - [105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/105/) — 137. - [106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/106/) — Cf. - [107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/107/) — Brockhaus in the previously quoted "Berichte," 1861, p. 225-9. - [108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/108/) — For other forms, see R. Koehler in "Orient and Occident," vol. ii. p. 112. - [109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/109/) — \[171\] See, however, Mr. Campbell's remarks on this subject, in "Tales of the West Highlands," i. pp. lxxvii-lxxxi. - [110](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/110/) — \[172\] Afanasief, viii. - [111](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/111/) — No. 6. - [112](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/112/) — \[173\] See the third tale, of the "Siddhi Kuer," Juelg's "Kalm. - [113](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/113/) — Maerchen," pp. - [114](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/114/) — 17-19. - [115](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/115/) — \[174\] Schleicher's "Litauische Maerchen," No. 39. - [116](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/116/) — (I have given an analysis of the story in the "Songs of the Russian People," p. 101.) - [117](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/117/) — In the variant of the story in No. 38, the comrades are the hero Martin, a smith, and a tailor. - [118](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/118/) — Their supernatural foe is a small gnome with a very long beard. - [119](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/119/) — He closely resembles the German "Erdmaenneken" (Grimm, No. 91), and the "Maennchen," in "Der starke Hans" (Grimm, No. 166.) - [120](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/120/) — \[175\] Hahn, No. 11. - [121](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/121/) — Schleicher, No. 20, &c., &c. - [122](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/122/) — \[176\] Wenzig, No. 2. - [123](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/123/) — \[177\] "Tales of the West Highlands," ii. p. 15. - [124](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/124/) — Mr. Campbell says "I believe such a mode of torture can be traced amongst the Scandinavians, who once owned the Western Islands." - [125](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/125/) — But the Gaelic "Binding of the Three Smalls," is unknown to the Skazkas. - [126](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/126/) — \[178\] Erlenvein, No. 3. - [127](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/127/) — \[179\] Afanasief, vii. - [128](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/128/) — No. 30. - [129](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/129/) — \[180\] Khudyakof, No. 97. - [130](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/130/) — \[181\] Khudyakof, No. 14. - [131](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/131/) — Erlenvein, No. 9. - [132](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/132/) — \[182\] Afanasief, iv. - [133](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/133/) — No. 44. - [134](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/134/) — \[183\] The first \_krasavitsa\_ or beauty. - [135](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/135/) — \[184\] \_Chulanchik. - [136](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/136/) — \_ The \_chulan\_ is a kind of closet, generally used as a storeroom for provisions, &c. - [137](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/137/) — \[185\] \_Prigovarivaya\_, the word generally used to express the action of a person who utters a charm accompanied by a gesture of the hand or finger. - [138](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/138/) — \[186\] Became a \_nevyesta\_, a word meaning "a marriageable maiden," or "a betrothed girl," or "a bride." - [139](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/139/) — \[187\] \_Ishbushka\_, a little \_izba\_ or cottage. - [140](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/140/) — \[188\] "Phu, Phu! there is a Russian smell!" the equivalent of our own "Fee, faw, fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman!" - [141](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/141/) — \[189\] \_Luchina\_, a deal splinter used instead of a candle. - [142](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/142/) — \[190\] \_Chernushka\_, a sort of wild pea. - [143](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/143/) — \[191\] \_Krasnoe solnuischko\_, red (or fair) dear-sun. - [144](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/144/) — \[192\] Equivalent to saying "she liked to wash her dirty linen at home." - [145](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/145/) — \[193\] I break off the narrative at this point, because what follows is inferior in dramatic interest, and I am afraid of diminishing the reader's admiration for one of the best folk-tales I know. - [146](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/146/) — But I give an epitome of the remainder within brackets and in small type. - [147](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/147/) — \[194\] From the Poltava Government. - [148](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/148/) — Afanasief, vi. - [149](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/149/) — No. 28 \_b\_. - [150](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/150/) — \[195\] Grimm, No. 65. - [151](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/151/) — The Wallachian and Lithuanian forms resemble the German (Schott, No. 3. - [152](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/152/) — Schleicher, No. 7). - [153](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/153/) — In all of them, the heroine is a princess, who runs away from an unnatural father. - [154](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/154/) — In one of the Modern Greek versions (Hahn, No. 27), she sinks into the earth. - [155](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/155/) — For references to seven other forms of the story, see Grimm, \_KM. - [156](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/156/) — \_, iii. p. 116. - [157](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/157/) — In one Russian variant (Khudyakof, No. 54), she hides in a secret drawer, constructed for the purpose in a bedstead; in another (Afanasief, vi. - [158](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/158/) — No. 28 \_a\_), her father, not recognising her in the pig-skin dress, spits at her, and turns her out of the house. - [159](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/159/) — In a third, which is of a very repulsive character (ibid. vii. - [160](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/160/) — No. 29), the father kills his daughter. - [161](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/161/) — \[196\] Afanasief, vi. - [162](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/162/) — No. 18. - [163](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/163/) — \[197\] The Russian word is \_zakukovali\_, \_i.e.\_, "They began to cuckoo." - [164](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/164/) — The resemblance between the word \_kukla\_, a puppet, and the name and cry of the cuckoo (\_Kukushka\_) may be merely accidental, but that bird has a marked mythological character. - [165](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/165/) — See the account of the rite called "the Christening of the Cuckoos," in "Songs of the Russian people," p. 215. - [166](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/166/) — \[198\] Very like these puppets are the images which reply for the sleeping prince in the opening scene of "De beiden Kuenigeskinner" (Grimm, No. 113). - [167](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/167/) — A doll plays an important part in one of Straparola's stories (Night v. Fable 2). - [168](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/168/) — Professor de Gubernatis identifies the Russian puppet with "the moon, the Vedic Raka, very small, but very intelligent, enclosed in the wooden dress, in the forest of night," "Zoological Mythology," i. 207-8. - [169](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/169/) — \[199\] Afanasief, ii. - [170](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/170/) — No. 31. - [171](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/171/) — \[200\] Khudyakof, No. 55. - [172](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/172/) — \[201\] Ibid., No. 83. - [173](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/173/) — \[202\] Wojcicki's "Polnische Volkssagen," &c. Lewestam's translation, iii. - [174](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/174/) — No. 8. - [175](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/175/) — \[203\] The germ of all these repulsive stories about incestuous unions, proposed but not carried out, was probably a nature myth akin to that alluded to in the passage of the Rigveda containing the dialogue between Yama and Yami--"where she (the night) implores her brother (the day) to make her his wife, and where he declines her offer because, as he says, 'they have called it sin that a brother should marry his sister.'" - [176](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/176/) — Max Mueller, "Lectures," sixth edition, ii. - [177](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/177/) — 557. - [178](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/178/) — \[204\] Afanasief, vii. - [179](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/179/) — No. 18. - [180](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/180/) — \[205\] Her name \_Vyed'ma\_ comes from a Slavonic root \_ved\_, answering to the Sanskrit \_vid\_--from which springs an immense family of words having reference to knowledge. - [181](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/181/) — \_Vyed'ma\_ and \_witch\_ are in fact cousins who, though very distantly related, closely resemble each other both in appearance and in character. - [182](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/182/) — \[206\] Afanasief, i. No. 4 \_a\_. - [183](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/183/) — From the Voroneje Government. - [184](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/184/) — \[207\] Ivashko and Ivashechko, are caressing diminutives of Ivan. - [185](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/185/) — \[208\] "Some storytellers," says Afanasief, "substitute the word snake (\_zmei\_) in the Skazka for that of witch (\_vyed'ma\_)." - [186](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/186/) — \[209\] Diminutive of Elena. - [187](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/187/) — \[210\] \_Gusi--lebedi\_, geese--swans. - [188](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/188/) — \[211\] Afanasief, i. No. 4. - [189](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/189/) — \[212\] Kulish, ii. - [190](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/190/) — 17. - [191](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/191/) — \[213\] Khudyakof, No. 53. - [192](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/192/) — \[214\] Ibid. - [193](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/193/) — No. 52. - [194](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/194/) — \[215\] The demonism of Ceylon "represents demons as having \_human\_ fathers and mothers, and as being born in the ordinary course of nature. - [195](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/195/) — Though born of human parents, all their qualities are different from those of men. - [196](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/196/) — They leave their parents sometime after their birth, but before doing so, they generally take care to try their demoniac powers on them." " - [197](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/197/) — Demonology and Witchcraft in Ceylon," by Dandris de Silva Gooneratne Modliar. " - [198](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/198/) — Journal of Ceylon Branch of Royal Asiatic Society," 1865-6, p. 17. - [199](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/199/) — \[216\] Afanasief, vi. - [200](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/200/) — No. 57. [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/) **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. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/35/) - ↑ back to [Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/)