Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales
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About This Book
In this volume you will find 27 uniquely Slavonic and Cossack stories like "The Story Of Unlucky Daniel," "The Vampire And St Michael," "The Tsar And The Angel," "The Story Of Ivan And The Daughter Of The Sun" and more not heard in the west for many a year. This volume of stories has been selected from a Slavonic dialect extraordinarily rich in folk-tales. The language is Ruthenian, or the language of the Cossacks. This was the first translation ever made from Ruthenian into English. There are peculiar and original elements in these stories not to be found in the folk-lore of other European pe...
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- COSSACK FAIRY TALES
- COSSACK FAIRY TALES AND FOLK TALES SELECTED EDITED AND TRANSLATED BY R. NISBET BAIN ILLUSTRATED BY NOEL L. NISBET
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- INTRODUCTION TO THE FIRST EDITION
- OH THE TSAR OF THE FOREST
- OH: THE TSAR OF THE FOREST
- THE STORY OF THE WIND
- THE STORY OF THE WIND
- THE VOICES AT THE WINDOW
- THE VOICES AT THE WINDOW
- THE STORY OF LITTLE TSAR NOVISHNY, THE FALSE SISTER, AND THE FAITHFUL BEASTS
- THE STORY OF LITTLE TSAR NOVISHNY, THE FALSE SISTER, AND THE FAITHFUL BEASTS
- THE VAMPIRE AND ST MICHAEL
- THE VAMPIRE AND ST MICHAEL
- THE STORY OF TREMSIN, THE BIRD ZHAR, AND NASTASIA, THE LOVELY MAID OF THE SEA
- THE STORY OF TREMSIN, THE BIRD ZHAR, AND NASTASIA, THE LOVELY MAID OF THE SEA
- THE SERPENT-WIFE
- THE SERPENT-WIFE
- THE STORY OF UNLUCKY DANIEL
- THE STORY OF UNLUCKY DANIEL
- THE SPARROW AND THE BUSH
- THE SPARROW AND THE BUSH
- THE OLD DOG
- THE OLD DOG
- THE FOX AND THE CAT
- THE FOX AND THE CAT
- THE STRAW OX
- THE STRAW OX
- THE GOLDEN SLIPPER
- THE GOLDEN SLIPPER
- THE IRON WOLF
- THE IRON WOLF
- THE THREE BROTHERS
- THE THREE BROTHERS
- THE TSAR AND THE ANGEL
- THE TSAR AND THE ANGEL
- THE STORY OF IVAN AND THE DAUGHTER OF THE SUN
- THE STORY OF IVAN AND THE DAUGHTER OF THE SUN
- THE CAT, THE COCK, AND THE FOX
- THE CAT, THE COCK, AND THE FOX
- THE SERPENT-TSAREVICH AND HIS TWO WIVES
- THE SERPENT-TSAREVICH AND HIS TWO WIVES
- THE ORIGIN OF THE MOLE
- THE ORIGIN OF THE MOLE
- THE TWO PRINCES
- THE TWO PRINCES
- THE UNGRATEFUL CHILDREN AND THE OLD FATHER WHO WENT TO SCHOOL AGAIN
- THE UNGRATEFUL CHILDREN AND THE OLD FATHER WHO WENT TO SCHOOL AGAIN
- IVAN THE FOOL AND ST PETER’S FIFE
- IVAN THE FOOL AND ST PETER’S FIFE
- THE MAGIC EGG
- THE MAGIC EGG
- THE STORY OF THE FORTY-FIRST BROTHER
- THE STORY OF THE FORTY-FIRST BROTHER
- THE STORY OF THE UNLUCKY DAYS
- THE STORY OF THE UNLUCKY DAYS
- THE WONDROUS STORY OF IVAN GOLIK AND THE SERPENTS
- THE WONDROUS STORY OF IVAN GOLIK AND THE SERPENTS
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