[149] Khudyakof, No. 17.
[150] It has already been observed that the word chudo, which now means a marvel or prodigy, formerly meant a giant.
[151] Erlenvein, No. 6, pp. 30-32. The Russian word idol is identical with our own adaptation of ειδωλου.
[152] Khudyakof, No. 18.
[153] Zhidenok, strictly the cub of a zhid, a word which properly means a Jew, but is used here for a devil.
[154] Khudyakof, No. 118.
[155] Chort, a word which, as has been stated, sometimes means a demon, sometimes the Devil.
[156] Afanasief, viii. p. 343.
[157] “Old Deccan Days,” pp. 34-5. Compare with the conduct of the Cobra’s daughter that of Angaraka, the daughter of the Daitya who, under the form of a wild boar, is chased underground by Chandasena. Brockhaus’s “Mährchensammlung des Somadeva Bhatta,” 1843, vol. i. pp. 110-13.
[158] “Panchatantra,” v. 10.