[452] Afanasief, Legendui, No. 11. From the Orel district.
[453] Afanasief, Legendui, pp. 141-5. With this story may be compared that of “The Cross-Surety.” See above, p. [40].
[454] Afanasief, Legendui, No. 5. From the Archangel Government.
[455] Popovskie, from pop, the vulgar name for a priest, the Greek πάππας.
[456] The prosvirka, or prosfora, is a small loaf, made of fine wheat flour. It is used for the communion service, but before consecration it is freely sold and purchased.
[457] A few lines are here omitted as being superfluous. In the original the second princess is cured exactly as the first had been. The doctors then proceed to a third country, where they find precisely the same position of affairs.
[458] Byely = white. See the “Songs of the Russian People,” p. 103, the “Deutsche Mythologie,” p. 203.
[459] Shchob tebe chorny bog ubif! Afanasief, P.V.S., i. 93, 94.
[460] Afanasief, P.V.S. iii. 314, 315.
[461] Lemboï, perhaps a Samoyed word.