--- title: Magic and Witchcraft., part 1 — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · full text with trees · page 2 description: Magic and Witchcraft., part 1, «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore»: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: Most of the magical "properties" of the "skazka-drama," closely resemble those which have already been rendered fami --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/42/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/) / Magic and Witchcraft., part 1 # Magic and Witchcraft., part 1 · page 2 [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/42/) **2** - [101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/42/101/) — "Why now, if I wanted, I could give the whole world a jolt." - [102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/42/102/) — "Oh that's plenty then! - [103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/42/103/) — Now make these tubs change places--that which stands on the right, set on the left: and that which is on the left, change to the right." - [104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/42/104/) — Prince Ivan took the tubs and made them change places. - [105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/42/105/) — Says the Queen-- - [106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/42/106/) — "See now, my dear son; in one of these tubs is the 'Water of Strength,' in the other is the 'Water of Weakness.' - [107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/42/107/) — \[313\] He who drinks of the former becomes a mighty hero, but he who drinks of the second loses all his vigor. - [108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/42/108/) — Vikhor always quaffs the Strong Water, and places it on the right-hand side; therefore you must deceive him, or you will never be able to hold out against him." - [109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/42/109/) — The Queen proceeds to tell her son that, when Vikhor comes home, he must hide beneath her purple cloak, and watch for an opportunity of seizing her gaoler's magic mace. - [110](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/42/110/) — \[314\] Vikhor will fly about till he is tired, and will then have recourse to what he supposes is the "Strong Water;" this will render him so feeble that the Prince will be able to kill him. - [111](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/42/111/) — Having received these instructions, and having been warned not to strike Vikhor after he is dead, the Prince conceals himself. - [112](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/42/112/) — Suddenly the day becomes darkened, the palace quivers, and Vikhor arrives; stamping on the ground, he becomes a noble gallant, who enters the palace, "holding in his hands a battle mace." - [113](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/42/113/) — This Prince Ivan seizes, and a long struggle takes place between him and Vikhor, who flies away with him over seas and into the clouds. - [114](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/42/114/) — At last, Vikhor becomes exhausted and seeks the place where he expects to find the invigorating draught on which he is accustomed to rely. - [115](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/42/115/) — The result is as follows: - [116](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/42/116/) — Dropping right into his cellar, Vikhor ran to the tub which stood on the right, and began drinking the Water of Weakness. - [117](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/42/117/) — But Prince Ivan rushed to the left, quaffed a deep draught of the Water of Strength, and became the mightiest hero in the whole world. - [118](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/42/118/) — Then seeing that Vikhor was perfectly enfeebled, he snatched from him his keen faulchion, and with a single blow struck off his head. - [119](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/42/119/) — Behind him voices began to cry: [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/42/) **2** - ← previous: [Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/41/) - next →: [Magic and Witchcraft., part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/43/) - ↑ back to [Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/)