Research Catalog

Title

The complete folktales of A. N. Afanas'ev / edited by Jack V. Haney.

Author

Afanasʹev, A. N. (Aleksandr Nikolaevich), 1826-1871

Publication

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2014-2021.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Haney, Jack V., 1940-2015
• Forrester, Sibelan E. S. (Sibelan Elizabeth S.

Description

3 volumes; 25 cm

Summary

The folktales of A. N. Afanas'ev represent the largest single collection of folktales in any European language and perhaps in the world. Widely regarded as the Russian Grimm, Afanas'ev collected folktales from throughout the Russian Empire in what are now regarded as the three East Slavic languages, Byelorusian, Russian, and Ukrainian. The result of his own collecting, the collecting of friends and correspondents, and in a few cases his publishing of works from earlier and forgotten collections is truly phenomenal. In his lifetime, Afanas'ev published more than 575 tales in his most popular and best known work, Narodnye russkie skazki.

Uniform Title

Narodnye russkie skazki. English

Alternative Title

Narodnye russkie skazki.

Subjects

• Tales
• Tales > Russia
• Russia

Note

• Volume III edited by Jack V. Haney and Sibelan Forrester.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Language (note)

• Translated from the Russian.

Contents

• Volume I. Little sister fox and the wolf -- For a bast boot, a hen --For the hen, a goose -- The fox midwife -- The fox, the hare, and the cock -- The fox confessor -- The fox healer -- An old man climbs up to the sky -- The old man in heaven -- The fox as keener -- The peasant, the bear, and the fox -- Old hospitality is soon forgotten -- The sheep, the fox, and the wolf -- The beasts in the pit -- The fox and the grouse -- The fox and the woodpecker -- The fox and the crane -- Snow maiden and the fox -- The fox and the crayfish -- The bun -- The tomcat, the cock, and the fox -- The tomcat and the fox -- The frightened bear and wolves -- The bear, the fox, the gadfly, and the peasant -- The wolf -- The sow and the wolf -- The wolf and the goat -- The wolf is a fool -- The bear -- The bear, the dog, and the cat -- The goat -- A tale about a shedding goat -- A tale about a certain one-sided ram -- The beasts' winter quarters -- The bear and the cock -- The dog and the woodpecker -- The cock and the hen -- The death of the cock -- The hen -- The crane and the heron -- The crow and the lobster -- The eagle and the crow -- The gold fish -- The greedy old woman -- The tale of Ersh Ershovich, Bristleback's son -- A story about a toothsome pike -- The tower of the fly -- The spider -- The bubble, the straw, and the bast boot -- The turnip -- Mushrooms -- Frost, sun, and wind -- Sun, moon, and Raven Ravenson -- The witch and the sun's sister -- The Vazuza and the Volga -- Frost -- The old woman who griped -- Daughter and stepdaughter -- The mare's head -- Little bitty Khavroshechka -- The little red cow -- Baba Yaga -- Vasilisa the beautiful -- Baba Yaga and the midget -- Baba Yaga and the nimble youth -- Ivashko and the witch -- Tereshechka -- The swan-geese -- Prince Danila Govorila -- The truth and the lie -- The prince and his uncle -- Ivan Tsarevich and Marfa Tsarevna -- The little copper man -- The merchant's daughter and her maid -- The three tsardoms -- copper, silver, and gold -- Frolka the dropout -- The Norka beast -- Rollingpea -- Ivan Popialov -- Storm-Bogatyr, Ivan the cow's son -- Ivan the bull's son -- Ivan the peasant's son and the little man the size of a finger with moustaches seven versts long -- Ivan Suchenko and the Belyi Polianin -- Dawn, evening, and midnight -- The bear, moustaches, mountain man, and Oakman Bogatyrs -- Nodei, the priest's grandson -- The flying ship -- The seven simeons -- Nikita the tanner -- The serpent and the gypsy -- The hired hand -- Shabarsha -- Ivan the bear's son -- A soldier rescues a tsarevna -- A fugitive soldier and the devil -- The two Ivans, a soldier's sons -- Koshchei the deathless -- Maria Morevna -- Fedor Tugarin and Anastasia the beautiful -- Ivan Tsarevich and the Belyi Polianin -- The crystal mountain -- Bukhtan Bukhtanovich -- Kozma Quickrich -- Emelia the fool -- At the pike's command -- The tale about Ivan Tsarevich, the firebird, and the gray wolf -- The firebird and Vasilisa Tsarevna -- A tale about the brave lad, the rejuvenating apples, and the living water.
• Volume II. Sivko-Burko -- The pig with the golden bristle, the duck with the golden feathers, the deer with the gold antlers, and the horse with the golden mane -- The magic horse -- The horse, the tablecloth, and the horn -- Two from the sack -- The cock and the grinder -- The magic box -- The magic ring -- Horns -- A tale about a duck with golden eggs -- The marvelous hen -- The legless and the blind bogatyrs -- Tsar bear -- The milk of the beasts -- The sham illness -- The marvelous shirt -- The magic mirror -- Go where I know not where and bring back I know not what -- The wise wife -- The three kopecks -- The sea tsar and Vasilisa the wise -- An incautious word -- The purchased wife -- The tsar maiden -- The feather of Finist the bright falcon -- Elena the wise -- The self-playing gusli -- The tsarevna who solved riddles -- The prophetic dream (I) -- The prophetic dream (II) -- Salt -- The gold mountain -- The miraculous fife -- The language of the birds -- The hunter and his wife -- Clever learning -- The marvel -- The marvelous marvel, the wondrous wonder -- The lucky child -- The treasure trove -- The speedy messenger -- Little sister Alyonushka, little brother Ivanushka -- The tsarevna -- a little gray duck -- The little white duck -- The steppe wildcat -- The frog tsarevna -- The serpent tsarevna -- The enchanted princess -- The petrified tsardom -- The birch and the three falcons -- The cursed tsarevich -- The snotty goat -- Unwashed -- The armless maid -- Up to the knee in gold, up to the elbow in silver -- The singing tree and the talking bird -- Pigskin -- The gold slipper -- Blackie -- The tsarevna in the underground tsardom -- Know not -- The tsarevna who would not laugh -- Night dances -- The boy the size of a finger -- Verlioka -- One-eyed evil -- Misery -- Two fates -- Marko the luckless -- The story of the glorious and brave bogatyr Il'ia Muromets and of Nightingale the robber -- Il'ia Muromets and the serpent -- Vasilii Buslavich -- Danilo the hapless -- Vasilii Tsarevich and Elena the beautiful -- Baldak Borisevich -- Vasilisa Popovna, the priest's daughter -- About Mamai the godless -- The legend about Alexander of Macedonia.
• Volume III. Shemiaka's court -- Riddles -- The Potter -- Wise replies -- The wise maiden -- The priest's laborer -- The foundling tsarevich -- The betrothed children -- A good word -- The herder's daughter -- The merchant's slandered daughter -- The tsaritsa who played the gusli -- Father and daughter -- The soldier and the tsar in the forest -- The soldier and the robber -- The robbers -- The princess and the robbers -- The wise maiden and the seven robbers -- Fortune and misfortune -- The cripple -- The fearless one -- Tales of the dead -- The vampire -- Ivan the merchant's son scolds the tsarevna -- Tales about witches -- The death of a miser -- The fiddler in hell -- The potter -- The widow and the devil -- The leshii -- Tricks -- One expert against another -- The fortune teller -- The seer -- Blind men -- The thief -- The sneaky peasant -- The soldier's riddle -- The dead body -- The jester -- Ivanushka the little fool -- The fool and the birch -- The utter fool -- Lutoniushka -- Exchange -- A tale about the brothers Foma and Erema -- Good but bad -- You don't like it? Don't listen! -- A story of olden times -- The bold hired man -- Ivan the fool -- Foma Berennikov -- A tale of a spiteful wife -- The quarrelsome wife -- The babbling wife -- The headwoman -- Husband and wife -- The prophetic oak -- The costly hide -- How a husband weaned his wife off tales -- The limb -- The cross as surety -- About Father Nikolai -- The skinflint -- Popular anecdotes -- Tiresome tales -- Funny little stories (Pribautki) -- Tales from Afanas'ev's Notes: The tale of a billy goat and a ram -- A tale of a tailor and a wolf -- The story of Ruff Ershovich, the stickleback's son -- The girl and the bear -- The three sisters -- The tale of the gold, silver, and copper tsardoms -- The tale of Vasilisa Golden Plait, rare beauty, and of Ivan the Pea -- The tale of the seven semions, true brothers -- The tale of the mighty and brave and undefeated bogatyr Ivan Tsarevich and of his beautiful spouse the tsar maiden -- The tale of the three princes -- About Ivanushka the fool -- The submissive husband and his belligerent wife -- The tale of the ring with twelve screws -- The tale of the hapless gunner -- The incautious word -- The tale of the silver saucer and the ripe apple -- The tale of the frog and the bogatyr -- The tale of Ivan the bhogatyr, a peasant's son -- Evil -- Human fate -- Need -- The tale of Tsarevich Strong and Ivashka White Shirt -- About miserable misery, the gentleman Danilo -- A story about a dead man -- The tale about the bogatyr Gol Voianskoi -- The sly man -- Appendix I. Tales removed by the censor from the collection Russian Folktales: About Tsar Solomon's trickery -- Christ's godchild -- The icon frame -- Appendix II. Tales from the collection Russian Forbidden Tales and from the manuscript Russian Folktales Not for the Press: Preface to Russian Forbidden Tales, Geneva, 1872 -- The tale of how a priest gave birth to a calf -- What I am! -- What am I in? -- The case of the cows -- The greedy priest -- The spiritual father -- The archbishop reads a rebuke -- The kind priest -- Pakhom -- The hound's funeral -- The goat's funeral -- The fortune-telling priest -- The priest lands up in the ranks -- The priest, his wife, the deacon, and the laborer -- The priest at the woman's and the hired man -- The priest neighs like a stallion -- Husband and wife -- The sly woman -- The clever wife -- Nikola Duplianskii -- The monk and the abbess -- The fife of paradise -- The block-headed priest -- The miraculous fife -- If you don't like it, don't listen -- The soldier-fiddler and the devil -- The soldier-fiddler and the unclean one -- The soldier and the watch -- The runaway soldier -- The soldier, the peasant, and the woman -- The soldier and the landlord -- The thief -- The miraculous fife -- The general's wife and the merchant's son -- The underground passage -- Dreams -- The merchant's wife and the order clerk -- "No!" -- The blind man's wife -- Two wives -- The wife Khimka -- Fomka the fool and his wife -- The shrewd mistress -- Commentaries -- Index of tale-types.

Call Number

JFE 15-1699

ISBN

• 9781628460933
• 1628460938
• 9781496823397
• 1496823397
• 9781496814715
• 1496814711
• 9781496831972
• 9781496802743
• 1496802748
• 9781496824097
• 1496824091
• 1496831977

LCCN

• 2014014293
• 40024371050
• 40030483278

OCLC

878667686

Author

Afanasʹev, A. N. (Aleksandr Nikolaevich), 1826-1871, author.

Title

The complete folktales of A. N. Afanas'ev / edited by Jack V. Haney.

Publisher

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2014-2021.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Language

Translated from the Russian.

Added Author

Haney, Jack V., 1940-2015, editor.

Forrester, Sibelan E. S. (Sibelan Elizabeth S., editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Afanasʹev, A.N. (Aleksandr Nikolaevich), 1826-1871. Complete folktales of A.N. Afanas'ev. Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2014 9781628460940 (DLC) 2014017002

Other Standard Identifier

40024371050

40030483278

Research Call Number

JFE 15-1699 Vol. 1-2.

JFE 21-4066 Vol. 3.