Author: John Theophilus NaakéPublisher: London : H.S. King
ISBN:
Category : Fairy tales
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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Slavonci Fairy Tales
Author: John Theophilus NaakéPublisher: London : H.S. King
ISBN:
Category : Fairy tales
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Slavonic fairy tales, collected and tr. from the Russian, Polish, Servian and Bohemian, by J.T. Naaké
Author: John Theophilus NaakéPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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SLAVONIC FAIRY TALES
Author: JOHN THEOPHILUS. NAAKEPublisher:
ISBN: 9781033053096
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Slavonic Fairy Tales
Author: AnonymousPublisher:
ISBN: 9781022326989
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Slavonic Fairy Tales: Collected and Translated From The Russian, Polish, Servian, and Bohemian
Author: John Theophilus NaakePublisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465592830
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
A certain magician being angry with a young peasant, came to the hut where he lived and stuck a new and sharp knife under the threshold, repeating an incantation as he did so, accompanied by this wish: "May this peasant be seized and carried away by the wind into the air, there to remain for seven whole years." The peasant went into the fields to make hay, when all of a sudden a great wind arose. It scattered the hay over the field, and seized the peasant himself. In vain he struggled, in vain he caught hold with his strong arms of hedge or branch of tree, the invisible power lifted him up and carried him away. Borne, as if on the wings of the wind, among the clouds, he flew like a wild pigeon. The sun began already to disappear in the west, and the hungry peasant could see the smoke ascending from the cottages in his village, where supper was cooking. At one time he could almost touch the chimney pots with his feet, and he screamed aloud for help. But he screamed and wept in vain; no one heard his cries, or saw his bitter tears. He was thus carried about in the air for nearly three months, and by that time, from hunger and thirst, had become dried up like a piece of wood. He travelled over a large part of the world, but the wind carried him chiefly over the village where he had lived. With tears in his eyes he would look on the hut where dwelt his betrothed. He would see her coming out with dinner for some one of the family. He would spread his thin, cold arms towards her, and call her by her name. His voice would die in his throat, while the girl would not even look up. Away and away the peasant was borne by the wind. Presently he saw the cruel magician standing before his own house. The magician looked up and shouted to him: "Ah, I have not done with you yet; you shall be thus carried by the wind over your own village for seven long years. You shall suffer constantly, and wish you were dead; but you shall not be able to die." "Oh, my little father, my master, forgive me if I have offended you!" cried the poor fellow from above. "Look at me; see, my mouth is as dry as a chip! Look at my face and hands—the flesh is gone from them, and the bones only are left! Have mercy upon me!"
Slavonic Fairy Tales
Author: John Theophilus NaakéPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fairy tales
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Slavonic Fairy Tales
Author: John Theophilus NaakéPublisher:
ISBN: 9781986256957
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Slavonic Fairy Tales is a great collection of folklore.
Slavonic Fairy Tales
Author: John T. NaakePublisher:
ISBN: 9781410101761
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Originally published in 1874, this compilation by John T. Naake of the British Museum contains fairy tales from Russian, Polish, Serbian and Bohemian.
Russian Folk Belief
Author: Linda J. IvanitsPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317460391
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
A scholarly work that aims to be both broad enough in scope to satisfy upper-division undergraduates studying folk belief and narrative and detailed enough to meet the needs of graduate students in the field. Each of the seven chapters in Part 1 focuses on one aspect of Russian folk belief, such as the pagan background, Christian personages, devils and various other logical categories of the topic. The author's thesis - that Russian folk belief represents a "double faith" whereby Slavic pagan beliefs are overlaid with popular Christianity - is persuasive and has analogies in other cultures. The folk narratives constituting Part 2 are translated and include a wide range of tales, from the briefly anecdotal to the more fully developed narrative, covering the various folk personages and motifs explored in Part 1.
Slavonic Fairy Tales
Author: John T. NaakePublisher:
ISBN: 9780849010620
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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