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    FOLKLORE AND LEGENDS OF THE RUSSIANS AND POLISH - 22 Nothern Slavic Stories: 22 Russian and Polish Folk Stories
    FOLKLORE AND LEGENDS OF THE RUSSIANS AND POLISH - 22 Nothern Slavic Stories: 22 Russian and Polish Folk Stories
    FOLKLORE AND LEGENDS OF THE RUSSIANS AND POLISH - 22 Nothern Slavic Stories: 22 Russian and Polish Folk Stories
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    FOLKLORE AND LEGENDS OF THE RUSSIANS AND POLISH - 22 Nothern Slavic Stories: 22 Russian and Polish Folk Stories

    By Anon E. Mouse and Retold by C J Tibbits

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    In this volume you will find 22 selections by CJ Tibbits made from various Russian and Polish collectors of Folklore—Afanasief, Erben, Wojcicki, Glinski, etc.
    There is little doubt of the stories Northern Slavic origins, since Russia and Poland are the countries in which these tales have found their home, and, over time, been adapted by the people so as to incorporate their national customs and lore within the stories.

    The 22 Russian and Polish in this volume are:
    • The Poor Man and the Judge - Russian
    • The Wind Rider - Polish
    • The Three Gifts
    • Snyegurka - The Snow Maiden - Russian
    • Prince Peter and Princess Magilene
    • The Old Man, his Wife, and the Fish
    • The Golden Mountain
    • The Duck that laid Golden Eggs
    • Emelyan the Fool
    • Ilija, the Muromer
    • The Bad-Tempered Wife
    • Ivashka with the Bear’s Ear
    • The Plague - Polish
    • The Peasant and the Wind - Russian
    • The Wonderful Cloth - Polish
    • The Evil Eye
    • The Seven Brothers - Russian
    • Sila Czarovitch and Ivaschka
    • The Stolen Heart - Polish
    • Prince Slugobyl
    • Princess Marvel
    • The Ghost

    So, download this unique volume, find a comfy chair, sit back with your reader and a steaming hot beverage and be prepared to be entertained for hours.

    10% of the profit from the sale of this book will be donated to charities by the Publisher.
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    KEYWORDS: folklore, fairy tales, folklore, myths, legends, children’s stories, children’s stories, bygone era, fairydom, fairy land, classic stories, children’s bedtime stories, fables, cultural, setting, Russian, Polish, Russia, Poland, poor man and the judge, wind rider, three gifts, snyegurka, snow maiden, prince peter, princess magilene, old man, wife, fish, golden mountain, duck, lay, golden eggs, emelyan the fool, ilija, muromer, bad-tempered wife, ivashka, bear’s ear, plague, peasant, wind, wonderful cloth, evil eye, seven brothers, sila czarovitch, ivaschka, stolen heart, prince slugobyl, princess marvel, ghost
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAbela Publishing
    Release dateMar 25, 2018
    ISBN9788827594094
    FOLKLORE AND LEGENDS OF THE RUSSIANS AND POLISH - 22 Nothern Slavic Stories: 22 Russian and Polish Folk Stories

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      FOLKLORE AND LEGENDS OF THE RUSSIANS AND POLISH - 22 Nothern Slavic Stories - Anon E. Mouse

      Folklore and Legends

      of the

      Russians and Polish

      Retold by

      Charles John Tibbits

      Originally Published by

      W. W. Gibbings, London

      [1890]

      Resurrected by

      Abela Publishing, London

      [2018]

      Folklore And Legends Of The Russians And Polish

      Typographical arrangement of this edition

      © Abela Publishing 2018

      This book may not be reproduced in its current format in any manner in any media, or transmitted by any means whatsoever, electronic, electrostatic, magnetic tape, or mechanical ( including photocopy, file or video recording, internet web sites, blogs, wikis, or any other information storage and retrieval system)

      except as permitted by law without the prior written permission of the publisher.

      Abela Publishing

      London

      United Kingdom

      [2018]

      ISBN-: 978-X-XXXXXX-XX-X

      Email:

      [email protected]

      Website:

      AbelaPublishing

      Snyegurka - The Snow Maiden

      Introductory Note

      In this volume I present selections made from the Russian chap-book literature, and from the works of various Russian and Polish collectors of Folklore—Afanasief, Erben, Wojcicki, Glinski, etc. The chap-book tales, and many of those of Glinski, are, there is little doubt, of foreign origin, but since Russia and Poland are the countries in which these tales have found their home, and since they have there been so adapted by the people as to incorporate the national customs and lore, they appear to me to belong properly to the present volume.

      C. J. T.

      Contents

      The Poor Man and the Judge - Russian

      The Wind Rider - Polish

      The Three Gifts

      Snyegurka - The Snow Maiden - Russian

      Prince Peter and Princess Magilene

      The Old Man, his Wife, and the Fish

      The Golden Mountain

      The Duck that laid Golden Eggs

      Emelyan the Fool

      Ilija, the Muromer

      The Bad-Tempered Wife

      Ivashka with the Bear’s Ear

      The Plague,      Polish

      The Peasant and the Wind - Russian

      The Wonderful Cloth - Polish

      The Evil Eye

      The Seven Brothers - Russian

      Sila Czarovitch and Ivaschka

      The Stolen Heart,      Polish

      Prince Slugobyl

      Princess Marvel

      The Ghost

      The Poor Man

      and the Judge

      Once upon a time there were two brothers who lived upon a piece of ground. The one was rich and the other poor. One day the poor brother went to the rich one to ask him to lend him a horse, so that he might carry wood from the forest. The rich brother lent him the horse, and then the poor one asked him to also let him have a collar for it. The rich man, however, got angry, and would not let him have one, and then it occurred to the poor man that he could fasten the sledge to the horse’s tail. Away he went to the forest to get his wood, and he got such a load that the horse could scarcely draw it. When he came home with it he opened the gate, but he did not think of the board at the foot of the gate, and the horse tumbling over it tore its tail out!

      The poor fellow took the horse back to his rich brother, but he, when he saw that the horse had no tail, would not receive it, and went off to the judge Schemyaka to complain to him of the poor brother. The poor man saw that things looked bad for him, and that he would be sent for by the judge. He thought over the matter for a long time, and at last set off after his brother on foot.

      On their way the two brothers had to pass over a bridge, and the poor man, thinking that he should never return from the judge alive, jumped over it. It chanced that, just at that time, a man’s son was driving his sick father to the baths, and was passing under the bridge. The poor man fell upon the old man and killed him, and the son went off to the judge to complain of his father’s having been killed.

      The rich brother, when he came to the judge, laid his complaint before him, telling him that his brother had pulled out his horse’s tail. Now the poor man had taken a stone and wrapped it in a cloth, and he stood with it in his hand, behind his brother, intending to kill the judge if he did not decide in his favour. The judge thought the man had brought a hundred roubles for him in the cloth, so he ordered the rich man to give his horse to the poor man until the tail was grown again.

      Then came the son to complain to the judge of the poor man having slain his father. The poor man again took the stone wrapped in the cloth and showed it to the judge, who thought the man must there have two hundred roubles to give to him for deciding the case. So he ordered the son to take his place upon the bridge and the poor man to stand below. Then the son was to throw himself off the bridge on to the poor man and crush him to death.

      The poor brother went to the rich one to take the horse without a tail, as the judge had ordered, so that he might keep it till the tail grew. The rich man, however, was not willing to lose his horse, so he gave the poor man five roubles, three bushels of corn, and a milch-goat, and so they settled the matter.

      Then the poor man went off to the son, and said—

      According to the judgment you must stand on the bridge while I must stand underneath it, and then you must jump off and crush me to death.

      Then thought the son—

      Who knows whether if I jump off the bridge I may not, instead of crushing him to death, kill myself?

      So he thought it would be best to come to an arrangement with the poor man, and he gave him two hundred roubles, a horse, and five bushels of corn.

      After this the judge, Schemyaka, sent his servant to the poor man to ask him for two hundred roubles. The poor man showed him the stone, and said—

      If the judge had not decided for me I should have killed him with it.

      When the servant came back to the judge and told him that, he crossed himself—

      Thank Heaven, said he, I decided as he wished!

      The Wind-Rider

      A magician was once upon a time much put out with a young countryman, and being in a great rage he went to the man’s hut and stuck a new sharp knife under the threshold. While he did so he cursed the man, saying—

      May this fellow ride for seven years on the fleet storm-wind, until he has gone all round the world.

      Now when the peasant went into the meadows in order to carry the hay, there came suddenly a gust of wind. It quickly scattered the hay, and then seized the peasant. He endeavoured in vain to resist; in vain he sought to cling to the hedges and trees with his hands. Do what he would, the invisible power hurried him forwards.

      He flew on the wings of the wind like a wild pigeon, and his feet no more touched the ground. At length the sun set, and the poor fellow looked with hungry eyes upon the smoke which curled up from the chimneys in his village. He could almost touch them with his feet, but he called and screamed in vain, and all his wailing and complaints were useless. No one heard his lamentation, no one saw his tears.

      So he went on for three months, and what with thirst and hunger he was dried up and almost a skeleton. He had gone over a good deal of ground by that time, but the wind most often carried him over his native village.

      He wept when he saw the hut in which dwelt his sweetheart. He could see her busied about the house. Sometimes she would bring out some dinner in a basket. Then he would stretch out his dried-up hands to her, and vainly call her name. His voice would die away, and the girl not hearing him would not look up.

      He fled on. The magician came to the door of his hut, and seeing the man, cried to him, mockingly—

      You have to ride for seven years yet, flying over this village. You shall go on suffering, and shall not die.

      O my father, said the man, if I ever offended you, forgive me! Look! my lips are quite hard; my face, my hands, look at them! I am nothing but bone. Have pity upon me.

      The magician muttered a few words, and the man stopped in his course. He stayed in one place, but did not yet stand on the ground.

      Well, you ask me to pity you, said the magician. And what do you mean to give me if I put a stop to your torment?

      All you wish, said the peasant, and he clasped his hands, and knelt down in the air.

      Will you give me your sweetheart, asked the magician, so that I may have her for my wife? If you will give her up, you shall come to earth again.

      The man thought for a moment, and said to himself—

      If I once get on the earth again, I may see if I cannot do something.

      So he said to the magician—

      Indeed, you ask me to make a great sacrifice, but if it must be so it must.

      The magician then blew at him, and the man came to the ground. He was very pleased to find the earth once more under his feet, and to have escaped from the power of the wind. Off he hurried to his hut, and at the threshold he met his sweetheart. She cried aloud with amazement when she saw the long-lost peasant, whom she had so long lamented and wept for. With his skinny hands the man put her gently aside, and went into the house, where he found the farmer who had employed him sitting down, and said to him, as he commenced to weep—

      I can no longer stay in your service, and I cannot marry your daughter. I love her very much, as much as the apple of my eye, but I cannot marry her.

      The old farmer wondered to see him, and when he saw his white pinched face and the traces of his suffering, he asked him why he did not wish for the hand of his daughter.

      The man told him all about his ride in the air, and the bargain he had made with the magician. When the farmer had listened to it all, he told the poor fellow to keep a good heart, and putting some money in his pocket, went out to consult a sorceress.

      Towards evening he returned very merry, and taking the peasant aside, said to him—

      To-morrow morning, before day, go to the witch, and you will find all will be well.

      The wearied peasant, who had not slept for three months, went to bed, but he woke before it was day, and went off to the witch. He found her sitting beside the hearth boiling herbs over a fire. She told him to stand by her, and, suddenly, although it was a calm day, such a storm of wind arose that the hut shook again.

      The sorceress then took the peasant outside into the yard and told him to look up. He lifted up his eyes, and—O wonder!—saw the evil magician whirling round and round in the air.

      There is your enemy, said the woman, he will trouble you no more. If you would like to see him at your wedding, I will tell you what to do, but he must suffer the torment that he meant to put you to.

      The peasant was delighted, and ran back to the house, and a month later he was married. While the wedding folk were dancing, the peasant went out into the yard, looked up, and saw right over the hut the magician turning round and round. Then the peasant took a new knife, and throwing it with all his force, stuck it in the magician’s foot.

      He fell at once to the ground, and the knife held him to the earth, so that he could only stand at the window and see how merry the peasant and his friends were.

      The next day he had disappeared, but he was afterwards seen flying in the air over a lake. Before him and behind him were flocks of ravens and crows, and these, with their hoarse cries, heralded the wicked magician’s endless ride on the wind.

      The Three Gifts

      A very rich widow had three children, a step-son, a fine young fellow, a step-daughter of wonderful beauty, and a daughter who was not so bad. The three children lived under the same roof, and took their meals together. At length the time came when the children were treated very differently. Although the widow’s daughter was bad-tempered, obstinate, vain, and a

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