Firebird by Ivan Bilibin Sixty Folk-Tales From Exclusively Slavonic Sources by A. H. Wratislaw Firebird by Ivan Bilibin

Sixty Folk-Tales From Exclusively Slavonic Sources by A. H. Wratislaw

Return to
Sixty Folk-Tales
Table of Contents

Serbian Stories From Bosnia

Introduction

XLV. The Birdcatcher

XLVI. The Two Brothers

Serbian Stories From Carniola

Introduction

XLVII. The Origin of Man

XLVIII. God's Cock

XLIX. Kurent the Preserver

L. Kurent and Man

LI. The Hundred-Leaved Rose


Introduction
to Serbian Stories From Bosnia

THE Bosnian stories are not written in the Cyrillic, but in the Latin character. This indicates that the Christian inhabitants of Bosnia belong to the Latin rather than to the Greek Church. The Serbians of the Kingdom of Serbia would, no doubt, gladly absorb Bosnia, but it is very doubtful whether the Bosnians would be equally glad to be absorbed by them. In Bosnia the landed proprietors are extensively Mahometans, and neither they nor the Latin Christians would be very willing to place themselves under the domination of the Orthodox Greek Church, without much stronger guarantees than the Serbians of the kingdom, as at present constituted, are likely to be able or willing to give them.

The text came from:

Wratislaw, A. H. Sixty Folk-Tales From Exclusively Slavonic Sources. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, & Company, 1890.


Available from Amazon.com

 Favorite Folktales from Around the World by Jane Yolen

Best-Loved Folktales of the World by Joanna Cole

Russian Fairy Tales by Post Wheeler

Amazon.com Logo

©Heidi Anne Heiner, SurLaLune Fairy Tales
E-mail: surlalune@aol.com
Page last updated September 18, 2006
www.surlalunefairytales.com

Amazon.com Logo