{"product_id":"2940149573547","title":"Serbian Folk-lore","description":"CONTENTS.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINTRODUCTION 1\u003cbr\u003eTHE BEAR’S SON 23\u003cbr\u003eTHE WONDERFUL KIOSK 31\u003cbr\u003eTHE SNAKE’S GIFT. LANGUAGE OF ANIMALS 36\u003cbr\u003eTHE GOLDEN APPLE-TREE, AND THE NINE PEAHENS 42\u003cbr\u003ePAPALLUGA; OR, THE GOLDEN SLIPPER 58\u003cbr\u003eTHE GOLDEN-FLEECED RAM 65\u003cbr\u003eWHO ASKS LITTLE, GETS MUCH 74\u003cbr\u003eJUSTICE OR INJUSTICE? WHICH IS BEST 80\u003cbr\u003eSATAN’S JUGGLINGS AND GOD’S MIGHT 84\u003cbr\u003eTHE WISE GIRL 88\u003cbr\u003eGOOD DEEDS ARE NEVER LOST 93\u003cbr\u003eLYING FOR A WAGER 103\u003cbr\u003eTHE WICKED STEPMOTHER 108\u003cbr\u003eBIRD GIRL 114\u003cbr\u003eSIR PEPPERCORN 117\u003cbr\u003eBASH-CHALEK; OR, TRUE STEEL 139\u003cbr\u003eTHE SHEPHERD AND THE KING’S DAUGHTER 165\u003cbr\u003eONE GOOD TURN DESERVES ANOTHER 180\u003cbr\u003eTHE BITER BIT 191\u003cbr\u003e[vi]THE TRADE THAT NO ONE KNOWS 206\u003cbr\u003eTHE THREE SUITORS 221\u003cbr\u003eTHE GOLDEN-HAIRED TWINS 228\u003cbr\u003eTHE DREAM OF THE KING’S SON 237\u003cbr\u003eTHE THREE BROTHERS 245\u003cbr\u003eANIMALS AS FRIENDS AND AS ENEMIES 282\u003cbr\u003eTHE LEGEND OF ST. GEORGE 295\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt 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.","brand":"Bronson Tweed Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47072909689072,"sku":"2940149573547","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940149573547_p0.jpg?v=1763719148","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940149573547","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}