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It begins: The Russian peasants have very confused ideas about the local habitation of the disembodied spirit, after its former teneme --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/51/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/) / Ghost Stories., part 1 # Ghost Stories., part 1 · page 2 [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/51/) **2** - [101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/51/101/) — Next day the two-eyed kept watch, and after it the three-eyed and so on. - [102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/51/102/) — The grandfather always muttered his charm 'Sleep, eye! - [103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/51/103/) — Sleep, second eye! - [104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/51/104/) — Sleep, third eye!' and so on. - [105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/51/105/) — But with the twelfth goat he failed, for he charmed only eleven of her eyes. - [106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/51/106/) — The goat saw him with the twelfth and caught him,"--and there the story ends. - [107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/51/107/) — \[387\] - [108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/51/108/) — In another instance the myth has been turned into one of those tales of the Munchausen class, the title of which is the "saw" \_Ne lyubo, ne slushai\_, \_i.e.\_, "If you don't like, don't listen"--the final words being understood; "but let me tell you a story." - [109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/51/109/) — A cock finds a pea in the part of a cottage under the floor, and begins calling to the hens; the cottager hears the call, drives away the cock, and pours water over the pea. - [110](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/51/110/) — It grows up to the floor, up to the ceiling, up to the roof; each time way is made for it, and finally it grows right up to heaven (\_do nebushka\_). - [111](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/51/111/) — Says the moujik to his wife: - [112](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/51/112/) — "Wife! wife, I say! shall I climb up into heaven and see what's going on there? - [113](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/51/113/) — May be there's sugar there, and mead--lots of everything!" - [114](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/51/114/) — "Climb away, if you've a mind to," replies his wife. - [115](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/51/115/) — So he climbs up, and there he finds a large wooden house. - [116](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/51/116/) — He enters in and sees a stove, garnished with sucking pigs and geese and pies "and everything which the soul could desire." - [117](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/51/117/) — But the stove is guarded by a seven-eyed goat; the moujik charms six of the eyes to sleep, but overlooks the seventh. - [118](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/51/118/) — With it the goat sees him eat and drink and then go to sleep. - [119](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/51/119/) — The house-master comes in, is informed by the goat of all that has occurred, flies into a passion, calls his servants, and has the intruder turned out of the house. - [120](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/51/120/) — When the moujik comes to the place where the pea-stalk had been, "he looks around--no pea-stalk is there." - [121](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/51/121/) — He collects the cobwebs "which float on the summer air," and of them he makes a cord; this he fastens "to the edge of heaven" and begins to descend. - [122](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/51/122/) — Long before he reaches the earth he comes to the end of his cord, so he crosses himself, and lets go. - [123](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/51/123/) — Falling into a swamp, he remains there some time. - [124](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/51/124/) — At last a duck builds her nest on his head, and lays an egg in it. - [125](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/51/125/) — He catches hold of the duck's tail, and the bird pulls him out of the swamp; whereupon he goes home rejoicing, taking with him the duck and her egg, and tells his wife all that has happened. - [126](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/51/126/) — \[388\] - [127](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/51/127/) — In another variant it is an acorn which is sown under the floor. - [128](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/51/128/) — From it springs an oak which grows to the skies. - [129](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/51/129/) — The old man of the story climbs up it in search of acorns, and reaches heaven. - [130](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/51/130/) — There he finds a hand-mill and a cock with a golden comb, both of which he carries off. - [131](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/51/131/) — The mill grinds pies and pancakes, and the old man and his wife live in plenty. - [132](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/51/132/) — But after a time a Barin or Seigneur steals the mill. - [133](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/51/133/) — The old people are in despair, but the golden-combed cock flies after the mill, perches on the Barin's gates, and cries-- - [134](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/51/134/) — "Kukureku! - [135](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/51/135/) — Boyarin, Boyarin! - [136](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/51/136/) — Give us back our golden, sky-blue mill!" - [137](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/51/137/) — The cock is flung into the well, but it drinks all the water, flies up to the Barin's house, and there reiterates its demand. - [138](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/51/138/) — Then it is thrown into the fire, but it extinguishes the flames, flies right into the Barin's guest-chamber, and crows as before. - [139](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/51/139/) — The guests disperse, the Barin runs after them, and the golden-combed cock seizes the mill and flies away with it. - [140](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/51/140/) — \[389\] - [141](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/51/141/) — In a variant from the Smolensk Government, it is the wife who climbs up the pea-stalk, while the husband remains down below. - [142](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/51/142/) — When she reaches the top, she finds an \_izbushka\_ or cottage there, its walls made of pies, its tables of cheese, its stove of pancakes, and so forth. - [143](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/51/143/) — After she has feasted and gone to sleep in a corner, in come three goats, of which the first has two eyes and two ears, the second has three of each of these organs, and the third has four. - [144](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/51/144/) — The old woman sends to sleep the ears and the eyes of the first and the second goat; but when the third watches it retains the use of its fourth eye and fourth ear, in spite of the incantations uttered by the intruder, and so finds her out. - [145](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/51/145/) — On being questioned, she explains that she has come "from the earthly realm into the heavenly," and promises not to repeat her visit if she is dismissed in peace. - [146](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/51/146/) — So the goats let her go, and give her a bag of nuts, apples, and other good things to take with her. - [147](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/51/147/) — She slides down the pea-stalk and tells her husband all that has happened. — checked by a teacher - [148](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/51/148/) — He persuades her to undertake a second ascent together with him, so off they set in company, their young granddaughter climbing after them. - [149](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/51/149/) — Suddenly the pea-stalk breaks, they fall headlong and are never heard of again. " - [150](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/51/150/) — Since that time," says the story, "no one has ever set foot in that heavenly izbushka--so no one knows anything more about it." - [151](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/51/151/) — \[390\] - [152](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/51/152/) — Clearer and fuller than these vague and fragmentary sketches of a "heavenly realm," are the pictures contained in the Russian folk-tales of the underground world. - [153](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/51/153/) — But it is very doubtful how far the stories in which they figure represent ancient Slavonic ideas. - [154](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/51/154/) — In the name, if not in the nature, of the \_Ad\_, or subterranean abode of evil spirits and sinful souls, we recognize the influence of the Byzantine Hades; but most of the tales in which it occurs are supposed to draw their original inspiration from Indian sources, while they owe to Christian, Brahmanic, Buddhistic, and Mohammedan influences the form in which they now appear. - [155](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/51/155/) — To these "legends," as the folk-tales are styled in which the saints or their ghostly enemies occur, belongs the following narrative of-- [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/51/) **2** - ← previous: [Magic and Witchcraft., part 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/50/) - next →: [Ghost Stories., part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/52/) - ↑ back to [Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/)