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Croatian Tales of Long Ago (Croatian: Priče iz davnine lit. "Stories from Ancient Times"), is a short story collection written by the acclaimed children's author Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić (sometimes spelled as "Ivana Berlić-Mažuranić" in English), [1] originally published in 1916 in Zagreb by the Matica hrvatska publishing house. [2]
There are few written records of pagan Slavic beliefs; research of the pre-Christian Slavic beliefs is challenging due to a stark class divide between nobility and peasantry who worshipped separate deities. [2] Many Christian beliefs were later integrated and synthesized into Slavic folklore.
Vasilisa the Beautiful at the Hut of Baba Yaga, illustration by Ivan Bilibin. Russian Fairy Tales (Russian: Народные русские сказки, variously translated; English titles include also Russian Folk Tales) is a collection of nearly 600 fairy and folktales, collected and published by Alexander Afanasyev between 1855 and 1863.
In Slavic folklore, especially among Eastern Slavs, the most widespread are the anthropogonic myths, which go directly back to the biblical myth of the creation of man from earth and clay. [3] [19] At the same time, the motif of Satan's participation in the creation of man is more popular among Eastern Slavs than the very presence of God. [19]
This indicates that West Slavic charms served as a mediator between the East Slavic tradition and Western influences. The magical formula "Stop, blood, as still in the wound, as water/Jesus in the Jordan" is an example of a treated person's bleeding wound assimilation with a medieval apocryphal story of how the Jordan waters stopped flowing ...
Andrew Lang retold the Flying Ship in the 1894 The Yellow Fairy Book. [14] Arthur Ransome retold the Flying Ship in the 1916 Old Peter's Russian Tales. [15] Uri Shulevitz illustrated a version of the Flying Ship referencing Arthur Ransome's retelling and entitled it, The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship, which won the Caldecott Medal in ...
'Prince and the Gray Wolf', of the East Slavic Folktale Classification (Russian: СУС, romanized: SUS): hero seeks the firebird, a horse and a princess with the aid of a gray wolf; jealous elder brothers kill him, but he is revived by the gray wolf. [15] Folklorist Jeremiah Curtin noted that the Russian, Slavic and German variants are many. [16]
The three books in the series are Rusalka (1989), Chernevog (1990), and Yvgenie (1991). Rusalka was nominated for a Locus Award in 1990. [2] The stories draw heavily from Slavic mythology and concerns the fate of a girl who has drowned and become a rusalka. [3] For example, a "Rusalka" is a type of life-draining Slavic fairy that