Serbian Folk Lore
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Description
Elodie Mijatovich translated these Serbian folk tales from the Serbian, in a second edition dated 1899. She had written a history of modern Serbia and a set of Kossovo ballads. A clergyman named Denton, by then dead, supplied the introduction. The contents list more than thirty tales with names like The Bear's Son, The Snake's Gift, and The Golden Apple-Tree and the Nine Peahens.
Other tales tell of a wise girl, a wicked stepmother, a golden-haired pair of twins, and Bash-Chalek, or True Steel. Mijatovich's preface notes that folk-lore had only lately won respect as a record of a people's inner life. English readers of the time got Serbia's peasant tales in this book for the first time. It preserves a rich oral store.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Unknown |
|---|---|
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 424 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |