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Book No. 4


To first story in the book press: 133

To last story in the book press: 141

Folk Tales From the Russian

Kalamatiano de Blumenthal Verra Xenophontovna

Folk Tales From the Russian, Verra Xenophontovna Kalamatiano de Blumenthal, 1903

This is a short collection of Russian folklore, including the famous Tale of Baba Yaga, the witch who lives in the wood in a moveable hut with hen's feet.

FOLK TALES

FROM THE RUSSIAN

RETOLD BY

VERRA XENOPHONTOVNA

KALAMATIANO DE BLUMENTHAL

[1903]

FOREWORD

IN Russia, as elsewhere in the world, folklore is rapidly scattering before the practical spirit of modern progress. The traveling peasant bard or story teller, and the devoted "nyanya," the beloved nurse of many a generation, are rapidly dying out, and with them the tales and legends, the last echoes of the nation's early joys and sufferings, hopes and fears, are passing away. The student of folk-lore knows that the time has come when haste is needed to catch these vanishing songs of the nation's youth and to preserve them for the delight of future generations. In sending forth the stories in the present volume, all of which are here set down in print for the first time, it is my hope that they may enable American children to share with the children of Russia the pleasure of glancing into the magic world of the old Slavic nation.

THE AUTHOR.

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