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Serbian Folk-lore
Serbian Folk-lore
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CONTENTS.
INTRODUCTION 1
THE BEAR’S SON 23
THE WONDERFUL KIOSK 31
THE SNAKE’S GIFT. LANGUAGE OF ANIMALS 36
THE GOLDEN APPLE-TREE, AND THE NINE PEAHENS 42
PAPALLUGA; OR, THE GOLDEN SLIPPER 58
THE GOLDEN-FLEECED RAM 65
WHO ASKS LITTLE, GETS MUCH 74
JUSTICE OR INJUSTICE? WHICH IS BEST 80
SATAN’S JUGGLINGS AND GOD’S MIGHT 84
THE WISE GIRL 88
GOOD DEEDS ARE NEVER LOST 93
LYING FOR A WAGER 103
THE WICKED STEPMOTHER 108
BIRD GIRL 114
SIR PEPPERCORN 117
BASH-CHALEK; OR, TRUE STEEL 139
THE SHEPHERD AND THE KING’S DAUGHTER 165
ONE GOOD TURN DESERVES ANOTHER 180
THE BITER BIT 191
[vi]THE TRADE THAT NO ONE KNOWS 206
THE THREE SUITORS 221
THE GOLDEN-HAIRED TWINS 228
THE DREAM OF THE KING’S SON 237
THE THREE BROTHERS 245
ANIMALS AS FRIENDS AND AS ENEMIES 282
THE LEGEND OF ST. GEORGE 295
It is only within the last few years that the importance of folk-lore, the popular legends, tales, drolls, and extravagances which have been handed down from generation to generation among the labourers, peasants and youth of a nation, has been frankly recognised. It is now, however, generally acknowledged that this kind of literature, which more than all other deserves the name of popular, possesses a value beyond any momentary amusement which the tales themselves may afford, and it has assumed an honourable post side by side with other and graver materials, and has obtained a recognised use in deciding the conclusions of the historian and ethnologist. It is fortunate that the utility of these ‘tales and old wives’ fables’ should have been thus recognised, otherwise the dull utilitarianism of modern educators would soon have trampled out these fragments of the ‘elder time,’ and have left to our children no alternative than that of ‘being crammed with geography and natural history.’ The collection of Serbian popular tales, now translated into English and here published, is an additional contribution to our knowledge of such literature—the most venerable secular literature, it may be, which has come down to our times.
INTRODUCTION 1
THE BEAR’S SON 23
THE WONDERFUL KIOSK 31
THE SNAKE’S GIFT. LANGUAGE OF ANIMALS 36
THE GOLDEN APPLE-TREE, AND THE NINE PEAHENS 42
PAPALLUGA; OR, THE GOLDEN SLIPPER 58
THE GOLDEN-FLEECED RAM 65
WHO ASKS LITTLE, GETS MUCH 74
JUSTICE OR INJUSTICE? WHICH IS BEST 80
SATAN’S JUGGLINGS AND GOD’S MIGHT 84
THE WISE GIRL 88
GOOD DEEDS ARE NEVER LOST 93
LYING FOR A WAGER 103
THE WICKED STEPMOTHER 108
BIRD GIRL 114
SIR PEPPERCORN 117
BASH-CHALEK; OR, TRUE STEEL 139
THE SHEPHERD AND THE KING’S DAUGHTER 165
ONE GOOD TURN DESERVES ANOTHER 180
THE BITER BIT 191
[vi]THE TRADE THAT NO ONE KNOWS 206
THE THREE SUITORS 221
THE GOLDEN-HAIRED TWINS 228
THE DREAM OF THE KING’S SON 237
THE THREE BROTHERS 245
ANIMALS AS FRIENDS AND AS ENEMIES 282
THE LEGEND OF ST. GEORGE 295
It is only within the last few years that the importance of folk-lore, the popular legends, tales, drolls, and extravagances which have been handed down from generation to generation among the labourers, peasants and youth of a nation, has been frankly recognised. It is now, however, generally acknowledged that this kind of literature, which more than all other deserves the name of popular, possesses a value beyond any momentary amusement which the tales themselves may afford, and it has assumed an honourable post side by side with other and graver materials, and has obtained a recognised use in deciding the conclusions of the historian and ethnologist. It is fortunate that the utility of these ‘tales and old wives’ fables’ should have been thus recognised, otherwise the dull utilitarianism of modern educators would soon have trampled out these fragments of the ‘elder time,’ and have left to our children no alternative than that of ‘being crammed with geography and natural history.’ The collection of Serbian popular tales, now translated into English and here published, is an additional contribution to our knowledge of such literature—the most venerable secular literature, it may be, which has come down to our times.
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