Songs of the Russian People as Illustrative of Slavonic Mythology and Russian Social Life - Paperback

by W. R. S. Ralston (Author)

1872. Contents: Khorovod, or Choral Songs; The Posidyelka, or Social Gathering; The Besyeda; Divisions of Songs; Cossack and Robber Songs; Soldier Songs; The Builinas, or Metrical Romances; Story of Svyatogor; Ruibnikof's Researches; Note on Metres. Mythology: The Old Gods; Old Slavonic Mythology; Perun; Other Slavonic Deities. Demigods and Fairies: Ideas about the Soul; The Domovoy, or House Spirit.