Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales
Uniform with this Volume
RUSSIAN FAIRY TALES
From the Skazki of Polevoi. By R. Nisbet Bain. Illustrated in Colour and Black and White by Noel L. Nisbet
LONDON: GEORGE G. HARRAP & CO.
2 & 3 PORTSMOUTH STREET KINGSWAY W.C.
MCMXVI
PRINTED AT THE COMPLETE PRESS
WEST NORWOOD ENGLAND
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The favourable reception given to my volume of Russian Fairy Tales has encouraged me to follow it up with a sister volume of stories selected from another Slavonic dialect extraordinarily rich in folk-tales––I mean Ruthenian, the language of the Cossacks.
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CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS
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 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 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 CAT, THE COCK, AND THE FOX
THE CAT, THE COCK, AND THE FOX
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
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 UNLUCKY DAYS
THE STORY OF THE UNLUCKY DAYS
THE WONDROUS STORY OF IVAN GOLIK AND THE SERPENTS