#MerfolkMonday: The Water Snake
Another folk-tale translated by William Ralston Shedden-Ralston in his A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore (1887). It’s grouped in Chapter III, “Miscellaneous Impersonations”, together with “The Water King and Vasilissa the Wise” I gave you last week. The scholar who collected this one is of this one is A.A. Erlenwein, in a collection called Folk […]