tion>Jeremiah Curtin
Myths and Folk-tales of the Russians, Western Slavs, and Magyars
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664649317
Table of Contents
THE THREE KINGDOMS,—THE COPPER, THE SILVER, AND THE GOLDEN.
IVAN TSAREVICH, THE FIRE-BIRD, AND THE GRAY WOLF.
THE FEATHER OF BRIGHT FINIST THE FALCON.
THE PIG WITH GOLD BRISTLES, THE DEER WITH GOLDEN HORNS, AND THE GOLDEN-MANED STEED WITH GOLDEN TAIL.
WATER OF YOUTH, WATER OF LIFE, AND WATER OF DEATH.
THE FOOTLESS AND BLIND CHAMPIONS.
VASSILISSA GOLDEN TRESS, BAREHEADED BEAUTY.
GO TO THE VERGE OF DESTRUCTION AND BRING BACK SHMAT-RAZUM.
THE SEVEN SIMEONS, FULL BROTHERS.
VASSILISSA THE CUNNING AND THE TSAR OF THE SEA.
THE TABLE, THE PACK, AND THE BAG.
THE MOUSE-HOLE, AND THE UNDERGROUND KINGDOM.
THE CUIRASSIER AND THE HORNED PRINCESS.
THE POOR MAN, AND THE KING OF THE CROWS.
KISS MIKLOS, AND THE GREEN DAUGHTER OF THE GREEN KING.
THE HEDGEHOG, THE MERCHANT, THE KING, AND THE POOR MAN.
INTRODUCTION.
A FEW tens of years ago it was all-important to understand and explain the brotherhood and blood-bond of Aryan nations, and their relation to the Semitic race; to discover and set forth the meaning of that which in mental work, historic strivings, and spiritual ideals ties the historic nations to one another. At the present time this work is done, if not completely, at least measurably well, and a new work awaits us, to demonstrate that there is a higher and a mightier bond—the relationship of created things with one another, and their inseverable connection with That which some men reverence as God, but which other men call the Unknowable, the Unseen.
This new work, which is the necessary continuation of the first, and which alone can give it completeness and significance, will be achieved when we have established the science of mythology.
Of course all that may be attempted in a volume like the present is to throw out a few hints, and to mention some
