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Morris, pp. - [204](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/204/) — 95-6. - [205](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/205/) — \[351\] Afanasief, vi. - [206](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/206/) — No. 32. - [207](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/207/) — From the Novgorod Government. - [208](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/208/) — A "chap-book" version of this story will be found in Dietrich's collection (pp. - [209](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/209/) — 152-68 of the English translation); also in Keightley's "Tales and Popular Fictions." - [210](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/210/) — \[352\] \_Nijnie\_, lower. - [211](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/211/) — Thus Nijny Novgorod is the lower (down the Volga) Novgorod. - [212](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/212/) — (Dahl.) - [213](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/213/) — \[353\] \_Kukova\_, a stick or cudgel, one end of which is bent and rounded like a ball. - [214](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/214/) — \[354\] \_Tak de ego ne vzat'. - [215](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/215/) — \_ - [216](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/216/) — \[355\] There are numerous variants of this story among the Skazkas. - [217](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/217/) — In one of these (Afanasief, vii. - [218](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/218/) — No. 31) the man on whom the pike has bestowed supernatural power uses it to turn a Maiden princess into a mother. - [219](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/219/) — This renders the story wholly in accordance with (1) the Modern Greek tale of "The Half Man," (Hahn, No. 8) in which the magic formula runs, "according to the first word of God and the second of the fish shall such and such a thing be done!" - [220](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/220/) — (2) The Neapolitan story of "Pervonto" (Basile's "Pentamerone," No. 3) who obtains his magic power from three youths whom he screens from the sun as they lie asleep one hot day, and who turn out to be sons of a fairy. - [221](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/221/) — Afanasief compares the story also with the German tale of "The Little Grey Mannikin," in the "Zeitschrift fuer Deutsche Mythologie," &c., i. pp. - [222](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/222/) — 38-40. - [223](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/223/) — The incident of wishes being fulfilled by a fish occurs in many stories, as in that of "The Fisherman," in the "Arabian Nights," "The Fisherman and his Wife," in Grimm (\_KM. - [224](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/224/) — \_, No. 19). - [225](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/225/) — A number of stories about the Pike are referred to by A. de Gubernatis ("Zoolog. - [226](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/226/) — Mythology," ii. - [227](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/227/) — 337-9). - [228](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/228/) — \[356\] Quoted by Afanasief from Siemienski's "Podania," Posen, 1845, p. 42. - [229](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/229/) — \[357\] "Songs of the Russian People," pp. - [230](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/230/) — 387-427. - [231](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/231/) — \[358\] Afanasief, vii. - [232](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/232/) — No. 36 \_a\_. - [233](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/233/) — This story has no special title in the original. - [234](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/234/) — \[359\] The rural police. - [235](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/235/) — \_Sotnick\_ = centurion, from \_sto\_ = 100. - [236](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/236/) — \_Desyatnik\_ is a word of the same kind from \_desyat\_ = 10. - [237](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/237/) — \[360\] A Ponomar is a kind of sacristan. - [238](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/238/) — \[361\] "Der Werwolf, Beitrag zur Sagengeschichte," Stuttgart, 1862. - [239](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/239/) — For Russian ideas on the subject see "Songs of the Russian people," pp. - [240](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/240/) — 403-9. - [241](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/241/) — \[362\] "Polnische Volkssagen" (translated by Lewestam), p. 61. - [242](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/242/) — \[363\] Brockhaus's "Maehrchensammlung des Somadeva Bhatta," ii. p. 24. - [243](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/243/) — \[364\] Afanasief, vii. - [244](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/244/) — No. 36 \_b\_. - [245](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/245/) — This story, also, is without special title. - [246](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/246/) — \[365\] In Mr. Hain Friswell's collection of "Ghost Stories," 1858. - [247](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/247/) — \[366\] Afanasief, vii. - [248](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/248/) — No. 36 \_c\_. - [249](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/249/) — Also without special title. - [250](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/250/) — \[367\] The Russian \_skovoroda\_ is a sort of stew-pan, of great size, without a handle. - [251](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/251/) — \[368\] From Professor Brockhaus's summary in the "Berichte der phil. hist. - [252](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/252/) — Classe der Koenigl. - [253](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/253/) — Saechs. - [254](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/254/) — Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften," 1861, pp. - [255](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/255/) — 215, 16. - [256](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/256/) — \[369\] For an account of this mythological bird, see the note on next page. - [257](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/257/) — Ornithologically, the \_Zhar-ptitsa\_ is the Cassowary. - [258](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/258/) — \[370\] Khudyakof, No. 110. - [259](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/259/) — From the Nijegorod Government. - [260](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/260/) — \[371\] \_Zhar\_ = glowing heat, as of a furnace; \_zhar-ptitsa\_ = the glow-bird. - [261](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/261/) — Its name among the Czekhs and Slovaks is \_Ptak Ohnivak\_. - [262](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/262/) — The heathens Slavonians are said to have worshipped Ogon or Agon, Fire, the counterpart of the Vedic Agni. - [263](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/263/) — \_Agon\_ is still the ordinary Russian word for fire, the equivalent of the Latin \_ignis\_. - [264](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/264/) — \[372\] Afanasief, vii. - [265](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/265/) — No. 11. - [266](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/266/) — See also the notes in viii. p. 620, etc. - [267](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/267/) — \[373\] Grimm's \_KM. - [268](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/268/) — \_, No. 57. - [269](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/269/) — See the notes in Bd. iii. p. 98. - [270](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/270/) — \[374\] Afanasief, vii. - [271](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/271/) — No. 12. - [272](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/272/) — \[375\] Khudyakof, No. 104. - [273](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/273/) — From the Orel Government. - [274](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/274/) — \[376\] The \_kholodnaya izba\_--the "cold izba," as opposed to the "warm izba" or living room. - [275](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/275/) — \[377\] The etymology of the word \_koldun\_ is still, I believe, a moot point. - [276](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/276/) — The discovery of the money in the warlock's coffin seems an improbable incident. - [277](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/49/277/) — In the original version of the story the wizard may, perhaps, have turned into a heap of gold (see above, p. 231, on "Gold-men"). 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