[360] A Ponomar is a kind of sacristan.
[361] “Der Werwolf, Beitrag zur Sagengeschichte,” Stuttgart, 1862. For Russian ideas on the subject see “Songs of the Russian people,” pp. 403-9.
[362] “Polnische Volkssagen” (translated by Lewestam), p. 61.
[363] Brockhaus’s “Mährchensammlung des Somadeva Bhatta,” ii. p. 24.
[364] Afanasief, vii. No. 36 b. This story, also, is without special title.
[365] In Mr. Hain Friswell’s collection of “Ghost Stories,” 1858.
[366] Afanasief, vii. No. 36 c. Also without special title.
[367] The Russian skovoroda is a sort of stew-pan, of great size, without a handle.
[368] From Professor Brockhaus’s summary in the “Berichte der phil. hist. Classe der Königl. Sächs. Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften,” 1861, pp. 215, 16.
[369] For an account of this mythological bird, see the note on [next page]. Ornithologically, the Zhar-ptitsa is the Cassowary.