[235] Erlenvein, No. 21.
[236] Our “Sunday gown.”
[237] Afanasief, viii. p. 408.
[238] Properly speaking “grief,” that which morally krushìt or crushes a man.
[239] Kruchìna, as an abstract idea, is of the feminine gender. But it is here personified as a male being.
[240] Afanasief, v. p. 237.
[241] Spasibo is the word in popular use as an expression of thanks, and it now means nothing more than “thank you!” But it is really a contraction of spasi Bog! “God save (you)!” as our “Good-bye!” is of “God be with you!”
[242] Maksimovich, “Tri Skazki” (quoted by Afanasief, viii. p. 406).
[243] Vuk Karajich, No. 13.
[244] Afanasief, viii. No. 21.