[121] Khudyakof, No. 44. [122] Erlenvein, No. 12, p. 67. A popular tradition asserts that the Devil may be killed if shot with an egg laid on Christmas Eve. See Afanasief, _P.V.S._ ii. 603. [123] Afanasief, i. No. 14, p. 92. For an account of Buyan, see "Songs of the Russian People," p. 374. [124] Afanasief, vii. No. 6, p. 83. [125] Some of these have been compared by Mr. Cox, in his "Mythology of the Aryan Nations," i. 135-142. Also by Professor A. de Gubernatis, who sees in the duck the dawn, in the hare "the moon sacrificed in the morning," and in the egg the sun. "Zoological Mythology," i. 269. [126] Asbjörnsen and Moe, No. 36, Dasent, No. 9, p. 71. [127] Asbjörnsen's "New Series," No. 70, p. 39. [128] Haltrich's "Deutsche Volksmärchen aus dem Sachsenlande in Siebenbürgen," p. 188. [129] Wenzig's "Westslawischer Märchenschatz," No. 37, p. 190. [130] Campbell's "Tales of the West Highlands," i. No. 4, p. 81. [131] Hahn, No. 26, i. 187. [132] Ibid., vol. ii. pp. 215, 294-5. [133] Vuk Karajich, No. 8. The monster is called in the Servian text an _Ajdaya_, a word meaning a dragon or snake. It is rendered by _Drache_ in the German translation of his collection of tales made by his daughter, but the word is evidently akin to the Sanskrit _ahi_, the Greek ἐχιρ ἐχιδνα, the Latin _anguis_, the Russian _ujak_, the Luthanian _angis_, etc. The Servian word _snaga_ answers to the Russian _sila_, strength. [134] Miss Frere's "Old Deccan Days," pp. 13-16. [135] Castren's "Ethnologische Vorlesungen über die Altaischen Völker," p. 174. [136] The story has been translated by M. de Rougé in the "Revue Archéologique," 1852-3, p. 391 (referred to by Professor Benfey, "Panchatantra," i. 426) and summarized by Mr. Goodwin in the "Cambridge Essays" for 1858, pp. 232-7, and by Dr. Mannhardt in the "Zeitschrift für deutsche Mythologie," &c., vol. iv. pp. 232-59. For other versions of the story of the Giant's heart, or Koshchei's death, see Professor R. Köhler's remarks on the subject in "Orient und Occident," ii. pp. 99-103. A singular parallel to part of the Egyptian myth is offered by the Hottentot story in which the heart of a girl whom a lion has killed and eaten, is extracted from the lion, and placed in a calabash filled with milk. "The calabash increased in size, and in proportion to this, the girl grew again inside it." Bleek's "Reynard the Fox in South Africa," p. 55. Cf. Radloff, i. 75; ii. 237-8, 532-3. [137] Khudyakof, No. 109. [138] Khudyakof, No. 110. [139] Afanasief, v. No. 42. See also the _Zagovor_, or spell, "to give a good youth a longing for a fair maiden," ("Songs of the Russian People," p. 369,) in which "the Longing" is described as lying under a plank in a hut, weeping and sobbing, and "waiting to get at the white light," and is desired to gnaw its way into the youth's heart. [140] For stories about house snakes, &c., see Grimm "Deutsche Mythologie," p. 650, and Tylor, "Primitive Culture," ii. pp. 7, 217-220.