--- title: Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 8 — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · full text with trees description: Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 8, «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore»: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: One-Eyed Likho, story of, 186 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/) [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 VI. LEGENDS, part 8 # Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 8 Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 8 of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore»: the whole text, 224 sentences and 2323 words. 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/pg22373/63/page/2/) [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/page/3/) - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/1/) — One-Eyed Likho, story of, 186 - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/2/) — One-Eyes, Ukraine legend of, 190 - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/3/) — Peewit, legend about the 335 - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/4/) — Perun, the thunder-god, 341 - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/5/) — Pike, story of a magic, 269 - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/6/) — Polyphemus, 190 - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/7/) — Poor Widow, story of the, 336 - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/8/) — Popes, Russian Priests called, 36 - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/9/) — Popular Tales, their meaning &c., 16-18; human and supernatural agents in, 75-78 - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/10/) — Popyalof, story of Ivan, 79 - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/11/) — Priest with the Greedy Eyes, story of the, 355 - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/12/) — Princess Helena the Fair, story of the, 262 - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/13/) — Purchased Wife, story of the, 44 - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/14/) — Ride on the Gravestone, story of the, 308 - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/15/) — Rip van Winkle story, 310 - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/16/) — Rivers, legends about, 215-221 - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/17/) — Russian children, appearance of, 157 - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/18/) — Russian Peasants; their dramatic talent, 19; pictures of their life contained in folk-tales, 21; a village soiree, 24; a courtship, 31; a death, 32; preparations for a funeral, 33; wailing over the dead, 35; a burial, 36; religious feeling of, 40; passion for drink, 42; humor, 48; their jokes against women, 49; their dislike of avarice, 59; their jokes about simpletons, 62 - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/19/) — Rye, legends about, 332 - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/20/) — Saints, legends about, 341; Ilya or Elijah, 341-343; story of Elijah and Nicholas, 344; St. Andrew, 348; St. George, 348-352; St. Nicholas, 352-354; St. Kasian, 352 - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/21/) — Scissors story, 49 - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/22/) — Semiletka, story of, 44 - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/23/) — Shroud, story of the, 311 - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/24/) — Skazkas or Russian folk-tales, their value as pictures of Russian life, 19-23; occurrence of word \_skazka\_ in, 23; their openings, 62; their endings, 83 - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/25/) — Smith and the Demon, story of the, 70 - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/26/) — Snake, the mythical, his appearance, 78; story of Ivan Popyalof, 79; story of the Water Snake, 126; Snake Husbands, 129; legend about the Common Snake, 334; likeness between Snakes and Demons, 380 - [27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/27/) — Soldier and Demon, story of, 380 - [28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/28/) — Soldier and the Devil, legend about, 366 - [29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/29/) — Soldier and the Vampire, story of the, 318 - [30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/30/) — Soldier's Midnight Watch, story of the, 279 - [31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/31/) — Sozh and Dnieper, story of, 216 - [32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/32/) — Sparrow, legends about the, 335 - [33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/33/) — Spasibo or Thank You, 202 - [34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/34/) — Spider, story of the, 68 - [35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/35/) — Stakes driven through Vampires, 326-328 - [36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/36/) — Stepmothers, character of, 94 - [37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/37/) — Strength and Weakness, Waters of, 243 - [38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/38/) — Suicides and Vampires, 327 - [39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/39/) — Sunday, tales about, 211 - [40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/40/) — Sun's Sister, 178-182 - [41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/41/) — Swallow, legends about the, 335 - [42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/42/) — Swan Maidens, 129 - [43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/43/) — Symplegades, 242 - [44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/44/) — Terema or Upper Chambers, 182 - [45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/45/) — Three Copecks, story of the, 56 - [46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/46/) — Treasure, story of the, 36 - [47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/47/) — Troyan, City of, legend about, 351 - [48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/48/) — Two Corpses, story of the, 316 - [49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/49/) — Two Friends, story of the, 309 - [50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/50/) — Ujak or Snake, 126 - [51](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/51/) — Unwashed, story of the, 366 - [52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/52/) — Usuinya-Bird, 95 - [53](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/53/) — Vampires, stories about, 313-322; account of the belief in, 322-328 - [54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/54/) — Vasilissa the Fair, story of, 158 - [55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/55/) — Vazuza and Volga, story of, 215 - [56](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/56/) — Vechernitsa or Village Soiree, 24 - [57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/57/) — Verlioka, story of, 170 - [58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/58/) — Vieszcy, the Kashoube Vampire, 325 - [59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/59/) — Vikhor or the Whirlwind, story of, 232-244 - [60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/60/) — Volga, story of Vazuza and, 215; of Dnieper and Dvina and, 217 - [61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/61/) — Vy, the Servian, 84 - [62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/62/) — Warlock, story of the, 292 - [63](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/63/) — Water King and Vasilissa the Wise, story of the, 130 - [64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/64/) — Water Snake, story of the, 126 - [65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/65/) — Waters of Life and Death, 237-242 - [66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/66/) — Waters of Strength and Weakness, 243 - [67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/67/) — Wednesday, legend of, 208 - [68](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/68/) — Week, Days of the, 206-21 - [69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/69/) — Whirlwind, story of the, 232 - [70](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/70/) — Whittington's Cat, 56-58 - [71](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/71/) — Wife, story of the Bad, 49; about a Good, 56 - [72](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/72/) — Wife-Gaining Leap, stories of a, 266-269 - [73](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/73/) — Witch, story of the, 171 - [74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/74/) — Witch, story of the Dead, 34 - [75](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/75/) — Witch and Sun's Sister, story of the, 178 - [76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/76/) — Witch Girl, story of the, 274 - [77](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/77/) — Witchcraft, 170-183, 273-295 - [78](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/78/) — Woe, story of, 193 - [79](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/79/) — Wolf-fiend, story of a, 376 - [80](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/80/) — Wolves, traditions about, 349 - [81](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/81/) — Women, jokes about, 49-56 - [82](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/82/) — Yaga Baba. - [83](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/83/) — \_See\_ Baba Yaga - [84](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/84/) — Youth, Fountain of, 72 - [85](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/85/) — Zhar-Ptitsa or Glow Bird, 289-292 - [86](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/86/) — Zluidni, malevolent beings called, 201 - [87](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/87/) — Transcriber's Note: - [88](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/88/) — This book was originally typeset using three different font sizes: largest for the main body of the text, smaller for the text of the tales, and smallest for the square bracketed author notes. - [89](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/89/) — As font size cannot be varied in this version of the e-text, the effect has been reproduced here using indentation: no indentation for the main body of the text, small indentation for the tales, and larger indentation for the square bracketed author notes. - [90](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/90/) — The frontispiece illustration has been moved to follow the title page. - [91](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/91/) — There are a few Greek words in this text. - [92](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/92/) — They have been transliterated in this version, and are surrounded with + signs, +like this+. - [93](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/93/) — The footnotes relating to vampires (pp. - [94](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/94/) — 323-4) reference modern Greek. - [95](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/95/) — In these cases only, +beta+ has been transliterated as a v rather than a b. - [96](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/96/) — There are a small number of non-Latin1 characters in this book, which have been treated as follows: oe ligatures have not been retained; a with macron (straight line) above it has been rendered as \[=a\]; e with breve (u-shaped symbol) above has been rendered as \[)e\]. - [97](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/97/) — There were a very large number of typographic errors in the source edition of this text. - [98](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/98/) — Minor punctuation errors (omitted or incorrect punctuation, mismatched quote marks etc.) have been amended without note. - [99](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/99/) — Regularly used abbreviations (for example, "Grimm, KM." or "P.V.S.") have been made consistent throughout, without note. - [100](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/100/) — Use of accents have been made consistent throughout without note. **1** [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/page/2/) [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/page/3/) - ← previous: [Chapter VI. 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