Excerpt from Uniform With This Volume: Each With Illustrations Time of its burial, with a note of the year, day and hour when it may alone be brought above ground. These formalities duly observed, the guardian of the treasure, be he Negro, Djin, or Serpent, will unfailingly render up his charge. In a country peopled by a dozen different races, it is not surprising to find that a considerable interchange of folk-tales has taken place, these having, in the majority of cases, been adapted to suit the ideas and customs of the ...
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Excerpt from Uniform With This Volume: Each With Illustrations Time of its burial, with a note of the year, day and hour when it may alone be brought above ground. These formalities duly observed, the guardian of the treasure, be he Negro, Djin, or Serpent, will unfailingly render up his charge. In a country peopled by a dozen different races, it is not surprising to find that a considerable interchange of folk-tales has taken place, these having, in the majority of cases, been adapted to suit the ideas and customs of the borrowers. In addition, however, to such Supernals as the various Christian races of the country may have thus introduced into their own popular legends and stories, there are many others which have remained the peculiar property of each respectively. I have already, in the Foreword to my translations of Greek Wonder Tales, dealt at some length with the mythical personages who figure in the folklore of the modern Hellenes, - the classical Fates, N ereids, Lamias, Syrens, and others, many of whom may be looked upon as but personifications of the powers of nature. Of the same character also are the Vilas and Samodioas of the Slavonic communities. The former seem to approach most nearly to the fairies of the West. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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