--- title: Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6 — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · full text with trees description: Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore»: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: "That's enough, you old goose! --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/) [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 III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6 # Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6 Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6 of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore»: the whole text, 159 sentences and 2616 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/pg22373/40/page/2/) - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/1/) — "That's enough, you old goose! - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/2/) — You flattered yourself you were going to get riches, but your daughters were too stiff-necked. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/3/) — How was I to blame? it was you yourself would have it." - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/4/) — The old woman was in a rage at first, and used bad language; but afterwards she made it up with her stepdaughter, and they all lived together peaceably, and thrived, and bore no malice. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/5/) — A neighbor made an offer of marriage, the wedding was celebrated, and Marfa is now living happily. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/6/) — The old man frightens his grandchildren with (stories about) Frost, and doesn't let them have their own way. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/7/) — In a variant from the Kursk Government (Afanasief IV. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/8/) — No. 42. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/9/) — \_b\_), the stepdaughter is left by her father "in the open plain." - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/10/) — There she sits, "trembling and silently offering up a prayer." - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/11/) — Frost draws near, intending "to smite her and to freeze her to death." - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/12/) — But when he says to her, "Maiden, maiden, I am Frost the Red-Nosed," she replies "Welcome, Frost; doubtless God has sent you for my sinful soul." - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/13/) — Pleased by her "wise words," Frost throws a warm cloak over her, and afterwards presents her with "robes embroidered with silver and gold, and a chest containing rich dowry." - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/14/) — The girl puts on the robes, and appears "such a beauty!" - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/15/) — Then she sits on the chest and sings songs. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/16/) — Meantime her stepmother is baking cakes and preparing for her funeral. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/17/) — After a time her father sets out in search of her dead body. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/18/) — But the dog beneath the table barks--"Taff! - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/19/) — Taff! - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/20/) — The master's daughter in silver and gold by the wedding party is borne along, but the mistress's daughter is wooed by none!" - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/21/) — In vain does its mistress throw it a cake, and order it to modify its remarks. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/22/) — It eats the cake, but it repeats its offensive observations, until the stepdaughter appears in all her glory. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/23/) — Then the old woman's own daughter is sent afield. - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/24/) — Frost comes to have a look at his new guest, expecting "wise words" from her too. - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/25/) — But as none are forthcoming, he waxes wroth, and kills her. - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/26/) — When the old man goes to fetch her, the dog barks--"Taff! - [27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/27/) — Taff! - [28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/28/) — The master's daughter will be borne along by the bridal train, but the bones of the mistress's daughter are being carried in a bag," and continues to bark in the same strain until the yard-gates open. - [29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/29/) — The old woman runs out to greet her daughter, and "instead of her embraces a cold corpse." - [30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/30/) — To the Russian peasants, it should be observed, Moroz, our own Jack Frost, is a living personage. - [31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/31/) — On Christmas Eve it is customary for the oldest man in each family to take a spoonful of kissel, a sort of pudding, and then, having put his head through the window, to cry: - [32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/32/) — "Frost, Frost, come and eat kissel! - [33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/33/) — Frost, Frost, do not kill our oats! drive our flax and hemp deep into the ground." - [34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/34/) — The Tcheremisses have similar ideas, and are afraid of knocking the icicles off their houses, thinking that, if they do so, Frost will wax wroth and freeze them to death. - [35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/35/) — In one of the Skazkas, a peasant goes out one day to a field of buckwheat, and finds it all broken down. - [36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/36/) — He goes home, and tells the bad news to his wife, who says, "It is Frost who has done this. - [37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/37/) — Go and find him, and make him pay for the damage!" - [38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/38/) — So the peasant goes into the forest and, after wandering about for some time, lights upon a path which leads him to a cottage made of ice, covered with snow, and hung with icicles. - [39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/39/) — He knocks at the door, and out comes an old man--"all white." - [40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/40/) — This is Frost, who presents him with the magic cudgel and table-cloth which work wonders in so many of the tales. - [41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/41/) — \[285\] In another story, a peasant meets the Sun, the Wind, and the Frost. - [42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/42/) — He bows to all three, but adds an extra salutation to the Wind. - [43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/43/) — This enrages the two others, and the Sun cries out that he will burn up the peasant. - [44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/44/) — But the Wind says, "I will blow cold, and temper the heat." - [45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/45/) — Then the Frost threatens to freeze the peasant to death, but the Wind comforts him, saying, "I will blow warm, and will not let you be hurt." - [46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/46/) — \[286\] - [47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/47/) — Sometimes the Frost is described by the people as a mighty smith who forges strong chains with which to bind the earth and the waters--as in the saying "The Old One has built a bridge without axe and without knife," \_i.e.\_, the river is frozen over. - [48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/48/) — Sometimes Moroz-Treskun, the Crackling Frost, is spoken of without disguise as the preserver of the hero who is ordered to enter a bath which has been heated red-hot. - [49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/49/) — Frost goes into the bath, and breathes with so icy a breath that the heat of the building turns at once to cold. - [50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/50/) — \[287\] - [51](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/51/) — The story in which Frost so singularly figures is one which is known in many lands, and of which many variants are current in Russia. - [52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/52/) — The jealous hatred of a stepmother, who exposes her stepdaughter to some great peril, has been made the theme of countless tales. - [53](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/53/) — What gives its special importance, as well as its poetical charm, to the skazka which has been quoted, is the introduction of Frost as the power to which the stepmother has recourse for the furtherance of her murderous plans, and by which she, in the persons of her own daughters, is ultimately punished. - [54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/54/) — We have already dealt with one specimen of the skazkas of this class, the story of Vasilissa, who is sent to the Baba Yaga's for a light. - [55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/55/) — Another, still more closely connected with that of "Frost," occurs in Khudyakof's collection. - [56](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/56/) — \[288\] - [57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/57/) — A certain woman ordered her husband (says the story) to make away with his daughter by a previous marriage. - [58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/58/) — So he took the girl into the forest, and left her in a kind of hut, telling her to prepare some soup while he was cutting wood. " - [59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/59/) — At that time there was a gale blowing. - [60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/60/) — The old man tied a log to a tree; when the wind blew, the log rattled. - [61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/61/) — She thought the old man was going on cutting wood, but in reality he had gone away home." - [62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/62/) — When the soup was ready, she called out to her father to come to dinner. - [63](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/63/) — No reply came from him, "but there was a human head in the forest, and it replied, 'I'm coming immediately!' - [64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/64/) — And when the Head arrived, it cried, 'Maiden, open the door!' - [65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/65/) — She opened it. ' - [66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/66/) — Maiden, Maiden! lift me over the threshold!' - [67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/67/) — She lifted it over. ' - [68](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/68/) — Maiden, Maiden! put the dinner on the table!' - [69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/69/) — She did so, and she and the Head sat down to dinner. - [70](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/70/) — When they had dined, 'Maiden, Maiden!' said the Head, 'take me off the bench!' - [71](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/71/) — She took it off the bench, and cleared the table. - [72](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/72/) — It lay down to sleep on the bare floor; she lay on the bench. - [73](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/73/) — She fell asleep, but it went into the forest after its servants. - [74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/74/) — The house became bigger; servants, horses, everything one could think of suddenly appeared. - [75](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/75/) — The servants came to the maiden, and said, 'Get up! it's time to go for a drive!' - [76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/76/) — So she got into a carriage with the Head, but she took a cock along with her. - [77](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/77/) — She told the cock to crow; it crowed. - [78](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/78/) — Again she told it to crow; it crowed again. - [79](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/79/) — And a third time she told it to crow. - [80](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/80/) — When it had crowed for the third time, the Head fell to pieces, and became a heap of golden coins." - [81](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/81/) — \[289\] - [82](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/82/) — Then the stepmother sent her own daughter into the forest. - [83](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/83/) — Everything occurred as before, until the Head arrived. - [84](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/84/) — Then she was so frightened that she tried to hide herself, and she would do nothing for the Head, which had to dish up its own dinner, and eat it by itself. - [85](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/85/) — And so "when she lay down to sleep, it ate her up." - [86](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/86/) — In a story in Chudinsky's collection, the stepdaughter is sent by night to watch the rye in an \_ovin\_,\[290\] or corn-kiln. - [87](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/87/) — Presently a stranger appears and asks her to marry him. - [88](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/88/) — She replies that she has no wedding-clothes, upon which he brings her everything she asks for. - [89](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/89/) — But she is very careful not to ask for more than one thing at a time, and so the cock crows before her list of indispensable necessaries is exhausted. - [90](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/90/) — The stranger immediately disappears, and she carries off her presents in triumph. - [91](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/91/) — The next night her stepsister is sent to the \_ovin\_, and the stranger appears as before, and asks her to marry him. - [92](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/92/) — She, also, replies that she has no wedding-clothes, and he offers to supply her with what she wants. - [93](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/93/) — Whereupon, instead of asking for a number of things one after the other, she demands them all at once--"Stockings, garters, a petticoat, a dress, a comb, earrings, a mirror, soap, white paint and rouge, and everything which her stepsister had got." - [94](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/94/) — Then follows the catastrophe. - [95](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/95/) — The stranger brought her everything, all at once. - [96](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/96/) — "Now then," says he, "will you marry me now?" - [97](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/97/) — "Wait a bit," said the stepmother's daughter, "I'll wash and dress, and whiten myself and rouge myself, and then I'll marry you." - [98](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/98/) — And straightway she set to work washing and dressing--and she hastened and hurried to get all that done--she wanted so awfully to see herself decked out as a bride. - [99](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/99/) — By-and-by she was quite dressed--but the cock had not yet crowed. - [100](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/100/) — "Well, maiden!" says he, "will you marry me now?" **1** [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/page/2/) - ← previous: [Chapter III. 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