CONTENTS

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Introduction[9]
Oh: The Tsar of the Forest[15]
The Story of the Wind[29]
The Voices at the Window[49]
The Story of Little Tsar Novishny, the False Sister, and the Faithful Beasts[57]
The Vampire and St Michael[83]
The Story of Tremsin, the Bird Zhar, and Nastasia, the Lovely Maid of the Sea[95]
The Serpent-Wife[105]
The Story of Unlucky Daniel[111]
The Sparrow and the Bush[123]
The Old Dog[129]
The Fox and the Cat[133]
The Straw Ox[139]
The Golden Slipper[147]
The Iron Wolf[159]
The Three Brothers[167]
The Tsar and the Angel[173]
The Story of Ivan and the Daughter of the Sun[183]
The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox[191]
The Serpent-Tsarevich and His Two Wives[197]
The Origin of the Mole[207]
The Two Princes[211]
The Ungrateful Children and the Old Father Who Went to School Again[219]
Ivan the Fool and St Peter’s Fife[229]
The Magic Egg[239]
The Story of the Forty-First Brother[255]
The Story of the Unlucky Days[261]
The Wondrous Story of Ivan Golik and the Serpents[267]

ILLUSTRATIONS

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They came to the place where he had left her[Frontispiece]
All manner of evil powers walked abroad[16]
“How much do you want for that horse?”[24]
The wind came and swept all his corn away[30]
“Out of the drum, my henchmen!”[40]
The Tsarivna arose from her coffin[86]
They were both on their knees[90]
Daniel waved his sword[114]
His wife caressed and wheedled him[118]
The girl drove the heifer out to graze[148]
The Tsar’s councillors went to the houses of all the nobles and princes[154]
The Tsar went about inquiring of his people if any were wronged[178]
The rulers of Hell laid hands upon the overseer straightway[186]
Nineteen times did she cast off one of her suits of clothes[198]
Suddenly St Peter appeared to him[230]
Ivan Golik drew the bow[276]

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INTRODUCTION TO THE
FIRST EDITION

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.