[384] Afanasief, iv. No. 9. [385] Ibid., iv. No. 7. p. 34. [386] _Prigovarivat'_ = to say or sing while using certain (usually menacing) gestures. [387] Afanasief, iv. p. 35. [388] Afanasief, vi. No. 2. [389] Afanasief, "Legendui," No. 33. [390] Chudinsky, No. 9. [391] Afanasief, v. No. 47. From the Tver Government. [392] "You have fallen here" _neladno_. _Ladno_ means "well," "propitiously," &c., also "in tune." [393] _Nenashi_ = not ours. [394] _Gospodi blagoslovi!_ exactly our "God bless us;" with us now merely an expression of surprise. [395] _Iz adu kromyeshnago_ = from the last hell. _Kromyeshnaya t'ma_ = utter darkness. _Kromyeshny_, or _kromyeshnaya_, is sometimes used by itself to signify hell. [396] _Ha pomin dushi._ _Pomin_ = "remembrance," also "prayers for the dead." [397] Afanasief, vii. No. 20. In some variants of this story, instead of the three holy elders appear the Saviour, St. Nicholas, and St. Mitrofan. [398] "Die Nelke," Grimm, _KM._, No. 76, and vol. iii. pp. 125-6. [399] Wenzig, No. 17, pp. 82-6. [400] See Chap. I. p. 32. [401] Afanasief, v. p. 144. [402] Afanasief, vi, p. 322, 323. [403] Evening gatherings of young people. [404] Afanasief, v. No. 30 _a_, pp. 140-2. From the Voroneje Government. [405] _Obyednya_, the service answering to the Latin mass. [406] At the end of the _obyednya_. [407] The _kosa_ or single braid in which Russian girls wear their hair. See "Songs of the Russian People," pp. 272-5. On a story of this kind Goethe founded his weird ballad of "Der Todtentanz." Cf. Bertram's "Sagen," No. 18. [408] Afanasief, v. pp. 142-4. From the Tambof Government. [409] Afanasief, vi. pp. 324, 325. [410] _Chasovenka_, a small chapel, shrine, or oratory. [411] Afanasief, vi. pp 321, 322. [412] Afanasief, v. pp. 144-7. From the Tambof Government. [413] On this account Hanush believes that the Old Slavonians, as burners of their dead, must have borrowed the vampire belief from some other race. See the "Zeitschrift für deutsche Mythologie," &c., vol. iv. p. 199. But it is not certain that burial by cremation was universally practised by the heathen Slavonians. Kotlyarevsky, in his excellent work on their funeral customs, arrives at the conclusion that there never was any general rule on the subject, but that some Slavonians buried without burning, while others first burned their dead, and then inhumed their ashes. See "Songs of the Russian People," p. 325. [414] See the strange stories in Maurer's "Isländische Volkssagen," pp. 112, and 300, 301. [415] As in the case of Glam, the terrible spectre which Grettir had so much difficulty in overcoming. To all who appreciate a shudder may be recommended chap. xxxv. of "The Story of Grettir the Strong," translated from the Icelandic by E. Magnússon and W. Morris, 1869.