[207] Ivashko and Ivashechko, are caressing diminutives of Ivan.
[208] “Some storytellers,” says Afanasief, “substitute the word snake (zmei) in the Skazka for that of witch (vyed’ma).”
[209] Diminutive of Elena.
[210] Gusi—lebedi, geese—swans.
[211] Afanasief, i. No. 4.
[212] Kulish, ii. 17.
[213] Khudyakof, No. 53.
[214] Ibid. No. 52.
[215] The demonism of Ceylon “represents demons as having human fathers and mothers, and as being born in the ordinary course of nature. Though born of human parents, all their qualities are different from those of men. They leave their parents sometime after their birth, but before doing so, they generally take care to try their demoniac powers on them.” “Demonology and Witchcraft in Ceylon,” by Dandris de Silva Gooneratne Modliar. “Journal of Ceylon Branch of Royal Asiatic Society,” 1865-6, p. 17.
[216] Afanasief, vi. No. 57. From the Ukraine.