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Later on it was published in 1890 as a Bulgarian fairy tale translated as "The Golden Apples and the Nine Peahens" by A. H. Wratislaw in his Sixty Folk-Tales from Exclusively Slavonic Sources, as tale number 38. [5] American illustrator and poet Katherine Pyle translated the tale as "The Seven Golden Peahens", while keeping its source as ...
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Since then he became a collector of folk stories and other folk works. In 1857 Tsepenkov was a teacher in Prilep. After he met Dimitar Miladinov he started collecting more and more folk works: songs, stories, riddles, and others. In that time he knew more than 150 stories and wrote one to two stories per week, as he mentions in his Autobiography.
Monument of Hitar Petar in front of the House of Humour and Satire in Gabrovo, Bulgaria which was built in 1981. Hitar Petar or Itar Pejo (Itar Petar) (Bulgarian: Хитър Петър, Macedonian: Итар Пејо or Итар Петар), [1] [2] [3] meaning "Crafty Peter" [4] or "Clever Peter", is a character of Bulgarian and Macedonian ...
Bulgarian mythology and fairy tales are mainly about forest figures, such as the dragon zmey, the nymphs samovili (samodivi), the witch veshtitsa. They are usually harmful and devastating, but can also help the people. The samovili are said to live in beeches and sycamores the, which are therefore considered holy and not permitted burning. [171]
In a Bulgarian tale, "Тримата братя и златната ябълка" ("The Three Brothers and the Golden Apple" - the name of the tale type in Bulgarian sources), [31] an old widow has a golden apple tree in her backyard. Every year, some creature steals the golden fruits.
In Bulgaria, the current understanding of Samodivas currently stems from collections of folk tales and folk songs. Many of those were compiled in the 19th century, as part of the Revival efforts of Bulgarian intellectuals. [1] The secondary literature on the topic of Samodiva is very limited.
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