[30] Professor de Gubernatis justly remarks that this “howling” is more in keeping with the nature of the eastern jackal than with that of its western counterpart, the fox. “Zoological Mythology,” ii. 130.
[31] Afanasief, vii. No. 45.
[32] Pope is the ordinary but disrespectful term for a priest (Svyashchennik), as popovich is for a priest’s son.
[33] “Father dear,” or “reverend father.”
[34] A phrase often used by the peasants, when frightened by anything of supernatural appearance.
[35] Afanasief, Skazki, vii. No. 49.
[36] The Russian expression is gol kak sokòl, “bare as a hawk.”
[37] In another story St. Nicolas’s picture is the surety.
[38] Another variant of this story, under the title of “[Norka],” will be quoted in full in the [next chapter].
[39] Afanasief, vii. p. 107.