Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7 · page 21 2101No. 33.102The name Leshy or Lyeshy is derived from _lyes_, a forest.103[265] Literally "as a _lun_," a kind of hawk (_falco rusticolus_).104_Lun_ also means a greyish light.105[266] _Ottogo ya i cyed chto chortof dyed.106_107[267] Afanasief, _P.V.S.108_, ii.109 110[268] Afanasief, iv.111No. 40.112From the Tver Government.113[269] Translated literally from Afanasief, _P.V.S.114_ ii.115 116[270] Yastreb = vulture or goshawk117[271] Quoted from Borichefsky (pp.118183-5) by Afanasief.119[272] Tereshchenko, v. 43, 44.120[273] Literally "Life disgusted them worse than a bitter radish."121[274] Translated literally from Afanasief, _P.V.S.122_ ii.123 124[275] "Deutsche Mythologie," 462.125[276] Afanasief, _loc. cit.126_ p. 231.127[277] Afanasief, iv.128No. 42.129From the Vologda Government.130[278] _Chelpan_, a sort of dough cake, or pie without stuffing.131[279] _Bogatir_ is the regular term for a Russian "hero of romance."132Its origin is disputed, but it appears to be of Tartar extraction.133[280] _Nast_, snow that has thawed and frozen again.134[281] _Suzhenoi-ryazhenoi.135_136[282] _Zhenikhi.137_138[283] _Sil'no priudaril_, mightily smote harder.139[284] _Okostenyeli_, were petrified.140[285] Afanasief, _P.V.S.141_ i. 318-19.142[286] Ibid. i. 312.143[287] As with Der Frostige in the German story of "Die sechs Diener," _KM.144_, No. 134, p. 519, and "The Man with the White Hat," in that of "Sechse kommen durch die ganze Welt," No. 71, p. 295, and their variants in different lands.145See Grimm, iii. p. 122.146[288] No. 13, "The Stepmother's Daughter and the Stepdaughter," written down in Kazan.147[289] This is a thoroughly Buddhistic idea.148According to Buddhist belief, the treasure which has belonged to anyone in a former existence may come to him in the shape of a man who, when killed, turns to gold.149The first story of the fifth book of the "Panchatantra," is based upon an idea of this kind.150A man is told in a vision to kill a monk.151He does so, and the monk becomes a heap of gold.152A barber, seeing this, kills several monks, but to no purpose.153See Benfey's Introduction, pp.154477-8.155[290] For an account of the _ovin_, and the respect paid to it or to the demons supposed to haunt it see "The Songs of the Russian People," p. 257.156[291] Chudinsky, No. 13. "157The Daughter and the Stepdaughter."158From the Nijegorod Government.159[292] _Vikhr'_ or _Vikhor'_ from _vit'_, to whirl or twist.160[293] Khudyakof, No. 82.161The story ends in the same way as that of Norka.162See supra, p. 73.163[294] Khudyakof, No. 86.164Morfei the Cook is merely a development of the magic cudgel which in so many stories (_e.g._ the sixth of the Calmuck tales) is often exchanged for other treasures by its master, to whom it soon returns--it being itself a degraded form of the hammer of Thor, the lance of Indra, which always came back to the divine hand that had hurled it.165[295] Khudyakof, No. 19.166The rest of the story is that of "Der Gaudief un sin Meester," Grimm's _KM.167_ No. 68.168(See also vol. iii. p. 118 of that work, where a long list is given of similar stories in various languages.)1 2← previousChapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6next →Magic and Witchcraft., 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/pg22373/41/page/2/