Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
01.09.2026
Verlag
ToridreamsSeitenzahl
402
Maße (L/B/H)
22,9/15,2/2,2 cm
Gewicht
580 g
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9798182725712
INTRODUCTORY. T here are but few among those inhabitants of Fairy-land of whom "Popu- lar Tales" tell, who are better known to the outer world than Cinderella- the despised and flouted younger sister, who long sits unnoticed beside the hearth, then furtively visits the glittering halls of the great and gay, and at last is transferred from her obscure nook to the place of honor justly due to her tardily acknowledged merits. Somewhat like the fortunes of Cinderella have been those of the popular tale itself. Long did it dwell beside the hearths of the common people, utterly ignored by their superiors in social rank. Then came a period during which the cultured world recognized its existence, but accorded to it no higher rank than that allotted to "nursery stories" and "old wives' tales"-except, indeed, on those rare occasions when the charity of a condescending scholar had invested it with such a garb as was supposed to enable it to make a respectable appearance in polite society. At length there arrived the season of its final change, when, transferred from the dusk of the peasant's hut into the full light of the outer day, and freed from the unbe- coming garments by which it had been disfigured, it was recognized as the 3 UNKNOWN scion of a family so truly royal that some of its members deduce their origin from the olden gods themselves. In our days the folk-tale, instead of being left to the careless guardianship of youth and ignorance, is sedulously tended and held in high honor by the ripest of scholars. Their views with regard to its origin may differ widely. But whether it be considered in one of its phases as a distorted "nature- myth," or in another as a demoralized apologue or parable-whether it be regarded at one time as a relic of primeval wisdom, or at another as a blurred transcript of a page of mediaeval history-its critics agree in declaring it to be no mere creation of the popular fancy, no chance expression of the un- cultured thought of the rude tiller of this or that soil. Rather is it believed of most folk-tales that they, in their original forms, were framed centuries upon centuries ago; while of some of them it is supposed that they may be traced back through successive ages to those myths in which, during a pre- historic period, the oldest of philosophers expressed their ideas relative to the material or the spiritual world. But it is not every popular tale which can boast of so noble a lineage, and one of the great difficulties which beset the mythologist who attempts to dis- cover the original meaning of folk-tales in general is to decide which of them are really antique, and worthy, therefore, of being submitted to critical anal- ysis. Nor is it less difficult, when dealing with the stories of
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