Myths and Folk-tales of the Russians, Western Slavs, and Magyars

by Jeremiah Curtin

Myths and Folk-Tales
OF THE
RUSSIANS, WESTERN SLAVS, AND
MAGYARS

By JEREMIAH CURTIN

BOSTON
LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY
1890

Copyright, 1890
By Jeremiah Curtin

University Press
John Wilson and Son, Cambridge

To FRANCIS JAMES CHILD, PH.D., LL.D.

Professor of English in Harvard University,
Cambridge, Mass.

My dear Professor Child,—

It is more than a quarter of a century since you began for Harvard that collection of myths, folk-tales, and ballads, in all European languages, which has grown under your hand to such proportions that it is now, perhaps, the most complete of its kind in either hemisphere.