Cossack Fairy Tales

by Robert Nisbet Bain

28 chapters6h 27mEnglish1916

About this book

This is a volume of fairy tales and folk tales from the Cossack people, compiled and translated by Robert Nisbet Bain. The tales are special as most children will not have heard them a hundred times before, and as they take listeners into a different region of the realm of the fairy tale. The Cossacks are a group of people living mostly in what is now Ukraine and Russia. The fairy and folk tales contained in this volume allow a glimpse into both the cultural traditions of the Cossack people, as well as into how this culture was perceived by others. - Summary by Carolin

Chapters (28)

1Introduction

341

2Oh, the Tsar of the Forest

1401

3The Story of the Wind

1996

4The Voices at the Window

490

5The Story of Little Tsar Novishny, the False Sister, and the Faithful Beasts

3217

6The Vampire and St. Michael

950

7The Story of Tremsin, the Bird Zhar, and Nastasia, the Lovely Maid of the Sea

891

8The Serpent-Wife

490

9The Story of Unlucky Daniel

988

10The Sparrow and the Bush

284

11The Old Dog

121

12The Fox and the Cat

230

13The Straw Ox

530

14The Golden Slipper

946

15The Iron Wolf

528

16The Three Brothers

326

17The Tsar and the Angel

1129

18The Story of Ivan and the Daughter of the Sun

459

19The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox

281

20The Serpent-Tsarevich and his Two Wives

770

21The Origin of the Mole

164

22The Two Princes

579

23The Ungrateful Children and the Old Father who went to School again

859

24Ivan the Fool and St. Peter's Fife

721

25The Magic Egg

1617

26The Story of the Forty-First Brother

524

27The Story of the Unlucky Days

253

28The Wondrous Story of Ivan Golik and the Serpents

2186

Cossack Fairy Tales

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Chapters (28)

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