The Sparrow and the Bush

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

Listen next episodes of Cossack Fairy Tales:
Ivan the Fool and St. Peter's Fife , 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 Story of Ivan and the Daughter of the Sun , The Story of the Forty-First Brother , The Story of the Unlucky Days , 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 Wondrous Story of Ivan Golik and the Serpents