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Excerpt from Russian Folk-Tales

Of late years several articles have appeared in some of the German periodicals,3 giving accounts or translations of some of the Russian Popular Tales. But no thorough investigation of them appeared in print, out of Russia, until the publication last year of the erudite work on Zoological Mythology' by Professor Angelo de Gubernatis. In it he has given a summary of the greater part of the stories contained in the Collections of Afanasief and Erlenvein, and so fully has he described the part played in them by the members of the animal world that I have omitted, in the present volume, the chapter I had prepared on the Russian beast-epos.'

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A fanasief, Khudyakof, Erlenvein, and Chudinsky. The South-R ussian collections of Kulish andR udchenko I have been able to use but little, there being no complete dictionary available of the dialect, or rather the language, in vhich they are written. Of these works that of A fanasief is by far the most important, extending to nearly 3,000 pages, and containing 332 distinct stories of many of which several vari ants are given, sometimes as many as five. Khudyakof scollection contains 122 skazkas as the Russian folk-tales are called Erlenvein s41, and Chudinsky s31. A fanasief has also published a separate volume, containing 33 legends and he has inserted a great number of stories of various kinds in his Poetic views of theO ld Slavonians about Nature, a work to which I have had constant recourse. From the stories contained in what may be called the chap-book literature of Russia I have made but few extracts. It may, however, be as well to say a.few words about them.
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