{120a} This is one of the songs sung at the breaking up of the company, addressed to the giver of the festival. {120b} Mushko chedo (male child). The male sex are in Servia, as elsewhere, deemed entitled to more care and attention than the other. {122} Herzegovina. S. Sabba. {127a} Svszde, star, is of the feminine gender. {127b} Sun is feminine in Servian. {152} Smederevo—a Servian fortress on the Danube. {153} The _Leech_, _Sanguisuga_; but in Servian there is no disagreeable association with the word. It is the name usually employed to describe the beauty of the eyebrows, as swallows’ wings are the simile used for eye-lashes. See p. 27. {157a} _Vishnia_, the universal Sclavonian name of the Vistula cherry-tree. The _Cerasum apronianum_ of Linné. {157b} The Vila nearly corresponds to the _Peri_ of the Persians, and the _Wöla_ of the Scandinavians. {157c} _Radisha_, is the name of a man. _Radovanic_—joy. {158} Lepota as the Servian word for _Beauty_. {168} I shall be accused of having _decorated_ this. The translation is more free than I have generally given; but in order to show how little I have deviated from the thoughts of the original, I give the conclusion. “Ako bi te u pjesmu pjevala, Pjesma ide od usta do usta, Pa che dochi u pogana usta; Ako bi te u rukave vesla, Rukav che se odma isderati, Pa che tvoje ime poginuti; Ako bi te u Knigu pisala Kniga ide od ruke do ruke, Pa che dochi u pogane ruke.” Vuk i. p. 200. {176} One of the distinguishing titles of the Vila is that here given; _sabejam oblake_, the cloud-gatherer. Νεφεληγερετης, in the classical mythology, is one of the names of Jupiter. {181a} Sarajevo—A large commercial city in Bosnia, on the river Miljazka. {181b} The popular national dance of the Servians. {185a} Bosiljak—the _Ocimum basilicum_ of Linné. {185b} Sudija. {190a} _Kaloper_. Balsamita vulgaris. Linné. {190b} _Bosiljak_, see p. 185. {199} The cuckoo (kukavitza) according to Servian tradition, was a maiden who mourned so unceasingly for a dead brother, that she was changed into a bird, and thence continues without rest her melancholy note. A Servian girl who has lost a brother never hears a cuckoo without shedding tears.—“I a poor cuckoo,” is equivalent to “woe is me!” {206} Lado, the vocative of _Lada_, the goddess of love, in the old Slavonian mythology. _Lado_! is a melancholy interjection in Servian, whereas _Lele_! the vocative of Lela, the god of love, has frequently a cheerful association: _Polela_ (after love), the goddess of marriage, is also sometimes apostrophised. Talvj remarks, that _Ljad_, in Russ, signifies misfortune. In common parlance, _Lele mene_ (Servian) imports Woe is me! {219} _Milinar_. The Miller.