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Cossack Fairy Tales

Cossack Fairy Tales

by Robert Nisbet BAIN (1854 - 1909)

This is a volume of fairy tales and folk tales from the Cossack people, compiled and translated by Robert Nisbet Bain. The tales are special as most children will not have heard them a hundred times before, and as they take listeners into a different region of the realm of the fairy tale. The Cossacks are a group of people living mostly in what is now Ukraine and Russia. The fairy and folk tales contained in this volume allow a glimpse into both the cultural traditions of the Cossack people, as well as into how this culture was perceived by others. - Summary by Carolin


Introduction

Ivan the Fool and St. Peter's Fife

Oh, the Tsar of the Forest

The Cat, the Cock, and the Fox

The Fox and the Cat

The Golden Slipper

The Iron Wolf

The Magic Egg

The Old Dog

The Origin of the Mole

The Serpent-Tsarevich and his Two Wives

The Serpent-Wife

The Sparrow and the Bush

The Story of Ivan and the Daughter of the Sun

The Story of Little Tsar Novishny, the False Sister, and the Faithful Beasts

The Story of the Forty-First Brother

The Story of the Unlucky Days

The Story of the Wind

The Story of Tremsin, the Bird Zhar, and Nastasia, the Lovely Maid of the Sea

The Story of Unlucky Daniel

The Straw Ox

The Three Brothers

The Tsar and the Angel

The Two Princes

The Ungrateful Children and the Old Father who went to School again

The Vampire and St. Michael

The Voices at the Window

The Wondrous Story of Ivan Golik and the Serpents