Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 16 · page 31 2 3201From the Ukraine.202[217] "Whither [his] eyes look."203[218] Vertodub, the Tree-extractor (_vertyet'_ = to twirl, _dub_ = tree or oak) is the German _Baumdreher_ or _Holzkrummacher_; _Vertogor_ the Mountain leveller (_gora_ = mountain) answers to the _Steinzerreiber_ or _Felsenkripperer_.204[219] Why are you just now so _zaplakannoi_ or blubbered.205(_Zalplakat'_, or _plakat'_ = to cry.)206[220] _Otkuda ni vzyalis.207_208[221] _Vidimo--nevidimo_, visibly--invisibly.209[222] _Zashumyeli_, they began to produce a _shum_ or noise.210[223] Afanasief, _P.V.S.211_, i. 80-84.212In the Albanian story of "The Serpent Child," (Hahn, No. 100), the heroine, the wife of the man whom forty snake-sloughs encase, is assisted in her troubles by two subterranean beings whom she finds employed in baking.checked by a teacher213They use their hands instead of shovels, and clean out the oven with their breasts.214They are called "Sisters of the Sun."1 2 3← previousChapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15next →Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1↑ back to Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-loreThis page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/34/page/3/