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CHAPTER I.
Introductory. The Folk-tale in general, and the Skazka in particular—Relation of Russian Popular Tales to Russian Life—Stories about Courtship, Death, Burial and Wailings for the Dead—Warnings against Drink, Jokes about Women, Tales of Simpletons—A rhymed Skazka and a Legend
I. The Fiend
II. The Dead Mother
III. The Dead Witch
IV. The Treasure
V. The Cross-Surety
VI. The Awful Drunkard
VII. The Bad Wife
VIII. The Golovikha
IX. The Three Copecks
X. The Miser
XI. The Fool and the Birch-Tree
XII. The Mizgir
XIII. The Smith and the Demon
CHAPTER II.
Mythological. Principal Incarnations of Evil. On the “Mythical Skazkas”—Male embodiments of Evil: 1. The Snake as the Stealer of Daylight; 2. Norka the Beast, Lord of the Lower World; 3. Koshchei the Deathless, The Stealer of Fair Princesses—his connexion with Punchkin and “the Giant who had no Heart in his Body”—Excursus on Bluebeard’s Chamber; 4. The Water King or Subaqueous Demon—Female Embodiments of Evil: 1. The Baba Yaga or Hag, and 2. The Witch, feminine counterparts of the Snake
XIV. Ivan Popyalof
XV. The Norka
XVI. Marya Morevna
XVII. Koshchei the Deathless
XVIII. The Water Snake
XIX. The Water King and Vasilissa the Wise
XX. The Baba Yaga
XXI. Vasilissa the Fair
XXII. The Witch
XXIII. The Witch and the Sun’s Sister
CHAPTER III.
Mythological. Miscellaneous Impersonations. One-eyed Likho, a story of the Polyphemus Cycle—Woe, the Poor Man’s Companion—Friday, Wednesday, and Sunday personified as Female Spirits—The Léshy or Wood-Demon—Legends about Rivers—Frost as a Wooer of Maidens—The Whirlwind personified as a species of Snake or Demon—Morfei and Oh, two supernatural beings
XXIV. One-Eyed Likho
XXV. Woe
XXVI. Friday
XXVII. Wednesday
XXVIII. The Léshy
XXIX. Vazuza and Volga
XXX. Sozh and Dnieper
XXXI. The Metamorphosis of the Dnieper, the Volga, and the Dvina
XXXII. Frost
CHAPTER IV.
Magic and Witchcraft. The Waters of Life and Death, and of Strength and Weakness—Aid given to Children by Dead Parents—Magic Horses, Fish, etc.—Stories about Brides won by a Leap, etc.—Stories about Wizards and Witches—The Headless Princess—Midnight Watchings over Corpses—The Fire Bird, its connexion with the Golden Bird and the Phoenix
XXXIII. The Blind Man and the Cripple
XXXIV. Princess Helena the Fair
XXXV. Emilian the Fool
XXXVI. The Witch Girl
XXXVII. The Headless Princess
XXXVIII. The Soldier’s Midnight Watch
XXXIX. The Warlock
CHAPTER V.
Ghost Stories. Slavonic Ideas about the Dead—On Heaven and Hell—On the Jack and the Beanstalk Story—Harmless Ghosts—The Rip van Winkle Story—the attachment of Ghosts to their Shrouds and Coffin-Lids—Murderous Ghosts—Stories about Vampires—on the name Vampire, and the belief in Vampirism
XL. The Fox-Physician
XLI. The Fiddler in Hell
XLII. The Ride on the Gravestone
XLIII. The Two Friends
XLIV. The Shroud
XLV. The Coffin-Lid
XLVI. The Two Corpses
XLVII. The Dog and the Corpse
XLVIII. The Soldier and the Vampire
CHAPTER VI.
Legends. 1. Saints, etc. Legends connected with the Dog, the Izba, the Creation of Man, the Rye, the Snake, Ox, Sole, etc.; with Birds, the Peewit, Sparrow, Swallow, etc.—Legends about SS. Nicholas, Andrew, George, Kasian, etc.
XLIX. Elijah the Prophet and Nicholas
L. The Priest with the Greedy Eyes
2. Demons, etc. Part played by Demons in the Skazkas—On “Hasty Words,” and Parental Curses; their power to subject persons to demoniacal possession—The dulness of Demons; Stories about Tricks played upon them—Their Gratitude to those who treat them with Kindness and their General Behavior—Various Legends about Devils—Moral Tale of the Gossip’s Bedstead
LI. The Hasty Word
