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Old Dragonbeard Chinese Folk Tales All Ages

Old Dragonbeard

Old Dragonbeard: At the time of the last emperor of the Sui dynasty, the power was in the hands of the emperor’s uncle, Yang Su. He was proud and extravagant.

Notscha Chinese Folk Tales All Ages

Notscha

Notscha: The oldest daughter of the Ruler of Heaven had married the great general Li Dsing. Her sons were named Gintscha, Mutscha and Notscha. But when Notscha

Kwang-Jui And The God Of The River Chinese Folk Tales All Ages

Kwang-Jui And The God Of The River

Kwang-Jui And The God Of The River: China is a land where the great masses of the people have to toil and struggle incessantly in order to obtain even the bare

Help In Need Chinese Folk Tales All Ages

Help In Need

Help In Need: Some twenty miles east of Gingdschou lies the Lake of the Maidens. It is several miles square and surrounded on all sides by thick green thickets

Giauna The Beautiful Chinese Folk Tales All Ages

Giauna The Beautiful

Giauna The Beautiful: Once upon a time there was a descendant of Confucius. His father had a friend, and this friend held an official position in the South and

Black Arts Chinese Folk Tales All Ages

Black Arts

Black Arts: The wild people who dwell in the South-West are masters of many black arts. They often lure men of the Middle Kingdom to their country by promising

Father Frost Russian Folk Tales All Ages

Father Frost

Father Frost: [Illustration] In a far-away country, somewhere in Russia, there lived a stepmother who had a stepdaughter and also a daughter of her own.

Baba Yaga Russian Folk Tales All Ages

Baba Yaga

A canonical Russian wonder-tale from Afanasyev (tales 102-103, Narodnye russkie skazki, 1855-63; English re-telling Blumenthal 1903). Two orphan twins, sent into the forest by a wicked stepmother, find Baba Yaga the witch in her hut on chicken legs. They are saved by the small kindnesses they have given to mice, a hungry cat, forest birds, a rusty gate and a wounded birch tree; the cats gift of a towel and a comb becomes a river and a dark forest behind them in the magic flight. ATU 480 fused with ATU 313H*. With scholarly attribution to Propp, Johns, Hubbs and Forrester.

Woe Bogotir Russian Folk Tales All Ages

Woe Bogotir

A Russian peasant folk tale of two brothers — one rich, one poor — and how the poor one outwits Woe (Gore), the gaunt grey personification of Misfortune who has come to live in his house. Translated by Verra Xenophontovna Kalamatiano de Blumenthal in Folk Tales from the Russian (1903) from Afanasyev's Narodnye russkie skazki. ATU 735A 'Bad Luck Imprisoned.'

Ivanoushka The Simpleton Russian Folk Tales All Ages

Ivanoushka The Simpleton

Ivanoushka The Simpleton: [Illustration] In a kingdom far away from our country, there was a town over which ruled the Tsar Pea with his Tsaritza Carrot.

The Language Of The Birds Russian Folk Tales All Ages

The Language Of The Birds

The Language Of The Birds: [Illustration] Somewhere in a town in holy Russia, there lived a rich merchant with his wife. He had an only son, a dear, bright

Seven Simeons Russian Folk Tales All Ages

Seven Simeons

Seven Simeons: [Illustration] In an empire, in a country beyond many seas and islands, beyond high mountains, beyond large rivers, upon a level expanse, as if