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Sixty folk-tales from exclusively Slavonic sources

  
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PREFACE.
  
CONTENTS.

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WESTERN SLAVONIANS.
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BOHEMIAN STORIES.
 I. 
I.—LONG, BROAD, AND SHARPSIGHT.
 II. 
II.—'THE THREE GOLDEN HAIRS OF GRANDFATHER ALLKNOW.'
 III. 
III.—GOLDENHAIR.
 IV. 
IV.—INTELLIGENCE AND LUCK.
 V. 
V.—THE JEZINKAS.
 VI. 
VI.—THE WOOD-LADY.
 VII. 
VII.—GEORGE WITH THE GOAT.
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MORAVIAN STORIES
 VIII. 
VIII.—GODMOTHER DEATH.
 IX. 
IX.—THE FOUR BROTHERS.
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HUNGARIAN-SLOVENISH STORIES.
 X. 
X.—THE THREE LEMONS.
 XI. 
XI.—THE SUN-HORSE.
 XII. 
XII.—THE GOLDEN SPINSTER.
 XIII. 
XIII.—ARE YOU ANGRY?
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UPPER AND LOWER LUSATIAN STORIES.
 XIV. 
XIV.—RIGHT ALWAYS REMAINS RIGHT.
 XV. 
XV.—LITTLE RED HOOD.
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KASHUBIAN STORY.
 XVI. 
XVI.—CUDGEL, BESTIR YOURSELF!
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POLISH STORIES.
 XVII. 
XVII.—PRINCE UNEXPECTED.
 XVIII. 
XVIII.—THE SPIRIT OF A BURIED MAN.
 XIX. 
XIX.—THE PALE MAIDEN.
 XX. 
XX.—THE PLAGUE-SWARM.
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EASTERN SLAVONIANS.
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WHITE RUSSIAN STORIES.
 XXI. 
XXI.—THE FROST, THE SUN, AND THE WIND.
 XXII. 
XXII.—LITTLE ROLLING-PEA.
 XXIII. 
XXIII.—THE WONDERFUL BOYS.
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LITTLE RUSSIAN STORIES.
 XXIV. 
XXIV.—GOD KNOWS HOW TO PUNISH MAN.
 XXV. 
XXV.—THE GOOD CHILDREN.
 XXVI. 
XXVI.—THE DEVIL AND THE GIPSY.
 XXVII. 
XXVII.—GOD AND THE DEVIL.
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LITTLE RUSSIAN STORIES
 XXVIII. 
XXVIII.—THE BEAUTIFUL DAMSEL AND THE WICKED OLD WOMAN.
 XXIX. 
XXIX.—THE SNAKE AND THE PRINCESS.
 XXX. 
XXX.—TRANSFORMATION INTO A NIGHTINGALE AND A CUCKOO.
 XXXI. 
XXXI.—TRANSMIGRATION OF THE SOUL.
 XXXII. 
XXXII.—THE WIZARD.
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GREAT RUSSIAN STORIES.
 XXXIII. 
XXXIII.—THE LIME-TREE.
 XXXIV. 
XXXIV.—ILYA OF MUROM AND NIGHTINGALE THE ROBBER.
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SOUTHERN SLAVONIANS.
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BULGARIAN STORIES.
 XXXV. 
XXXV.—THE LORD GOD AS AN OLD MAN.
 XXXVI. 
XXXVI.—BULGARIAN HOSPITALITY.
 XXXVII. 
XXXVII.—CINDERELLA.
 XXXVIII. 
XXXVIII.—THE GOLDEN APPLES AND THE NINE PEAHENS.
 XXXIX. 
XXXIX.—THE LANGUAGE OF ANIMALS.
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SERBIAN STORIES.
 XL. 
XL.—THE LAME FOX.
 XLI. 
XLI.—THE SONS' OATH TO THEIR DYING FATHER.
 XLII. 
XLII.—THE WONDERFUL HAIR.
 XLIII. 
XLIII.—THE DRAGON AND THE PRINCE.
 XLIV. 
XLIV.—FATE.
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SERBIAN STORIES FROM BOSNIA.
 XLV. 
XLV.—THE BIRDCATCHER.
 XLVI. 
XLVI.—THE TWO BROTHERS.
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SERBIAN STORIES FROM CARNIOLA.
 XLVII. 
XLVII.—THE ORIGIN OF MAN.
 XLVIII. 
XLVIII.—GOD'S COCK.
 XLIX. 
XLIX.—KURENT THE PRESERVER.
 L. 
L.—KURENT AND MAN.
 LI. 
LI.—THE HUNDRED-LEAVED ROSE.
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CROATIAN STORIES.
 LII. 
LII.—KRALJEVITCH MARKO.
 LIII. 
LIII.—THE DAUGHTER OF THE KING OF THE VILAS.
 LIV. 
LIV.—THE WONDER-WORKING LOCK.
 LV. 
LV.—THE SHE-WOLF.
 LVI. 
LVI.—MILUTIN.
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ILLYRIAN-SLOVENISH STORIES.
 LVII. 
LVII.—THE FRIENDSHIP OF A VILA AND OF THE MONTHS.
 LVIII. 
LVIII.—THE FISHERMAN'S SON.
 LIX. 
LIX.—THE WHITE SNAKE.
 LX. 
LX.—THE VILA.

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SIXTY FOLK - TALES
FROM
EXCLUSIVELY SLAVONIC SOURCES.

Translated,
with Brief Introductions and Notes,

BY

A. H. WRATISLAW, M.A.,

Sometime Fellow and Tutor of Christ's College, Cambridge; Late Head Master of Falsted and Bury St. Edmund's Schools; Corresponding Member of the Royal Bohemian Society of Sciences.
LONDON:
ELLIOT STOCK, 62, PATERNOSTER ROW, E.C.
© 1889.
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