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Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself. **1** [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/page/2/) [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/page/3/) - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/1/) — \* \* \* \* \* - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/2/) — I had intended to say something about the various golden haired or golden-horned animals which figure in the Skazkas, but it will be sufficient for the present to refer to the notices of them which occur in Prof. de Gubernatis's "Zoological Mythology." - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/3/) — And now I will bring this chapter to a close with the following weird story of - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/4/) — THE WARLOCK. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/5/) — \[375\] - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/6/) — There was once a Moujik, and he had three married sons. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/7/) — He lived a long while, and was looked upon by the village as a \_Koldun\_ \[or wizard\]. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/8/) — When he was about to die, he gave orders that his sons' wives should keep watch over him \[after his death\] for three nights, taking one night apiece; that his body should be placed in the outer chamber,\[376\] and that his sons' wives should spin wool to make him a caftan. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/9/) — He ordered, moreover, that no cross should be placed upon him, and that none should be worn by his daughters-in-law. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/10/) — Well, that same night the eldest daughter-in-law took her seat beside him with some grey wool, and began spinning. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/11/) — Midnight arrives. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/12/) — Says the father-in-law from his coffin: - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/13/) — "Daughter-in-law, art thou there?" - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/14/) — She was terribly frightened, but answered, "I am." " - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/15/) — Art thou sitting?" " - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/16/) — I sit." " - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/17/) — Dost thou spin?" " - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/18/) — I spin." " - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/19/) — Grey wool?" " - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/20/) — Grey." " - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/21/) — For a caftan?" " - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/22/) — For a caftan." - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/23/) — He made a movement towards her. - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/24/) — Then a second time he asked again-- - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/25/) — "Daughter-in-law, art thou there?" - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/26/) — "I am." " - [27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/27/) — Art thou sitting?" " - [28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/28/) — I sit." " - [29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/29/) — Dost thou spin?" " - [30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/30/) — I spin." " - [31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/31/) — Grey wool?" " - [32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/32/) — Grey." " - [33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/33/) — For a caftan?" " - [34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/34/) — For a caftan." - [35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/35/) — She shrank into the corner. - [36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/36/) — He moved again, came a couple of yards nearer her. - [37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/37/) — A third time he made a movement. - [38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/38/) — She offered up no prayer. - [39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/39/) — He strangled her, and then lay down again in his coffin. - [40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/40/) — His sons removed her body, and next evening, in obedience to his paternal behest, they sent another of his daughters-in-law to keep watch. - [41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/41/) — To her just the same thing happened: he strangled her as he had done the first one. - [42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/42/) — But the third was sharper than the other two. - [43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/43/) — She declared she had taken off her cross, but in reality she kept it on. - [44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/44/) — She took her seat and spun, but said prayers to herself all the while. - [45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/45/) — Midnight arrives. - [46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/46/) — Says her father-in-law from his coffin-- - [47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/47/) — "Daughter-in-law, art thou there?" - [48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/48/) — "I am," she replies. " - [49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/49/) — Art thou sitting?" " - [50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/50/) — I sit." " - [51](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/51/) — Dost thou spin?" " - [52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/52/) — I spin." " - [53](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/53/) — Grey wool?" " - [54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/54/) — Grey." " - [55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/55/) — For a caftan?" " - [56](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/56/) — For a caftan." - [57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/57/) — Just the same took place a second time. - [58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/58/) — The third time, just as he was going to rush at her, she laid the cross upon him. - [59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/59/) — He fell down and died. - [60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/60/) — She looked into the coffin; there lay ever so much money. - [61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/61/) — The father-in-law wanted to take it away with him, or, at all events, that only some one who could outdo him in cunning should get it. - [62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/62/) — \[377\] - [63](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/63/) — In one of the least intelligible of the West Highland tales, there is a scene which somewhat resembles the "lykewake" in this skazka. - [64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/64/) — It is called "The Girl and the Dead Man," and relates, among other strange things, how a youngest sister took service in a house where a corpse lay. " - [65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/65/) — She sat to watch the dead man, and she was sewing; in the middle of night he rose up, and screwed up a grin. ' - [66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/66/) — If thou dost not lie down properly, I will give thee the one leathering with a stick.' - [67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/67/) — He lay down. - [68](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/68/) — At the end of a while, he rose on one elbow, and screwed up a grin; and the third time he rose and screwed up a grin. - [69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/69/) — When he rose the third time, she struck him a lounder of the stick; the stick stuck to the dead man, and the hand stuck to the stick, and out they were." - [70](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/70/) — Eventually "she got a peck of gold and a peck of silver, and the vessel of cordial" and returned home. - [71](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/71/) — \[378\] - [72](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/72/) — The obscurity of the Celtic tale forms a striking contrast to the lucidity of the Slavonic. - [73](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/73/) — The Russian peasant likes a clear statement of facts; the Highlander seems, like Coleridge's Scotch admirer, to find a pleasure in seeing "an idea looming out of the mist." - [74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/74/) — FOOTNOTES: - [75](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/75/) — \[296\] About which, see Professor Wilson's note on Somadeva's story of the "Origin of Pataliputra," "Essays," i. p. 168-9, with Dr. Rost's reference to L. Deslongchamps, "Essai sur les Fables Indiennes," Paris, 1838, p. 35 and Graesse, "Sagenkreise des Mittelalters," Leipsig, 1842, p. 191. - [76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/76/) — See also the numerous references given by Grimm, \_KM. - [77](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/77/) — \_ iii. pp. - [78](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/78/) — 168-9. - [79](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/79/) — \[297\] As well as in all the mythologies. - [80](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/80/) — For the magic draught of the fairy-story appears to be closely connected with the Greek \_ambrosia\_, the Vedic \_soma\_ or \_amrita\_, the Zend \_haoma\_. - [81](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/81/) — \[298\] A water, "Das Wasser des Lebens," in two German stories (Grimm, Nos. - [82](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/82/) — 92 and 97, and iii. p. 178), and in many Greek tales (Hahn, Nos. - [83](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/83/) — 32, 37, &c.). - [84](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/84/) — An oil or ointment in the Norse tale (Asbjoernsen and Moe, No. 35, Dasent, No. 3). - [85](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/85/) — A balsam in Gaelic tales, in which a "Vessel of Balsam" often occurs. - [86](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/86/) — According to Mr. Campbell ("West Highland Tales," i. p. 218), "Ballan Iocshlaint, teat, of ichor, of health, seems to be the meaning of the words." - [87](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/87/) — The juice squeezed from the leaves of a tree in a modern Indian tale ("Old Deccan Days," p. 139). - [88](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/88/) — \[299\] The mythical bird Garuda, the Indian original of the Roc of the Arabian Nights, was similarly connected with the Amrita. - [89](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/89/) — See the story of Garuda and the Nagas in Brockhaus's translation of the "Kathasaritsagara," ii. pp. - [90](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/90/) — 98-105. - [91](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/91/) — On the Vedic falcon which brings the Soma down to earth, see Kuhn's "Herabkunft des Feuers," pp. - [92](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/92/) — 138-142. - [93](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/93/) — \[300\] In the Russian periodical, "Otechestvennuiya Zapiski," vol. 43 (for 1830) pp. - [94](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/94/) — 252-6. - [95](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/95/) — \[301\] Schiefners's translation, 1852, pp. - [96](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/96/) — 80, 81. - [97](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/97/) — \[302\] In that attributed to Sivadasa, tale 2 (Lassen's "Anthologia Sanscritica," pp. - [98](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/98/) — 16-19), and in the "Kathasaritsagara," chap. lxxvi. - [99](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/99/) — See Brockhaus's summary in the "Berichte der phil. hist. - [100](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/100/) — Classe der Koen. **1** [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/page/2/) [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/page/3/) - ← previous: [Magic and Witchcraft., part 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/48/) - next →: [Magic and Witchcraft., part 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/50/) - ↑ back to [Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/)