Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore
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Contents
- W. R. S. Ralston, M. A.,
- Preface
- Story-List
- Introductory
- The Fiend
- The Dead Mother
- The Dead Witch
- The Treasure
- The Cross-Surety
- The Awful Drunkard
- The Bad Wife
- The Golovikha
- The Three Copecks
- The Miser
- The Fool and the Birch-Tree
- The Mizgir
- The Smith and the Demon
- Principal Incarnations of Evil
- Ivan Popyalof
- The Norka
- Marya Morevna
- Koshchei the Deathless
- The Water Snake
- The Water King and Vasilissa the Wise
- The Baba Yaga
- Vasilissa the Fair
- The Witch
- The Witch and the Sun’s Sister
- Miscellaneous Impersonifications
- One-Eyed Likho
- Woe
- Friday
- Wednesday
- The Léshy
- Vazuza and Volga
- Sozh and Dnieper
- The Metamorphosis of the Dnieper, the Volga, and the Dvina
- Frost
- Magic and Witchcraft
- The Blind Man and the Cripple
- Princess Helena the Fair
- Emilian the Fool
- The Witch Girl
- The Headless Princess
- The Soldier’s Midnight Watch
- The Warlock
- Ghost Stories
- The Fox-Physician
- The Fiddler in Hell
- The Ride on the Gravestone
- The Two Friends
- The Shroud
- The Coffin-Lid
- The Two Corpses
- The Dog and the Corpse
- The Soldier and the Vampire
- About Saints
- Elijah the Prophet and Nicholas
- The Priest with the Greedy Eyes
- About Demons
- The Hasty Word