ite. She has several young and
handsome daughters whom she keeps in a deep well beneath her izbushka or
cabin, which has neither door nor window, and stands upon the wildest
part of the steppe upon crow's feet and is continually turning round.
Whenever Baba Yaga meets a person she is in the habit of screaming out:--

"_Oho_, _Oho_!
_I ne'er saw Russian wight till now_;
_But now the flesh of a Russian wight_
_I smell with nose and see with sight_."

Such is the Russian tradition about Baba Yaga, who is unlike in every
respect any of the goblins and mythological monsters of Western Europe,
except perhaps in her cry, which puts one in mind of the exclamation of
the giant in the English nursery tale of Jack the Giant killer:--

"_Fee_, _Fi_, _Fo_, _Fum_,
_I smell the blood of an Englishman_."

In the demon lore of the Turks, however, there is a ghostly being with
which she seems to have considerable affinity. This goblin is called
Kara Conjulos. Kara Conjulos is a female, and lives at the bottom of a
well in a certain part of Constantinople, from which she emerges every
night and drives about the city in a cart drawn by two buffaloes. She is
much in the habit of stopping at caravansaries, going into the stables
and breeding a confusion and a panic amongst the horses. She has several
daughters, who occasionally accompany her in her expeditions and assist
her in the commission of her pranks. A certain learned effendi, in a
most curious Turkish book which he wrote about Constantinople, has a
great deal to say concerning this goblin and her daughters, and amongst
other things gives an account of a very bad night which he passed in a
caravansary at some little distance from the city owing to the intrusion
of Kara Conjulos and her bevy.

Now for the story of Yvashka, or Jack.

GEORGE BORROW.

THE STORY OF YVASHKA WITH THE BEAR'S EAR

In a certain kingdom, in a certain government, there lived a peasant
whose wife bore him a son who had the ear of a bear, on which account he
was called Yvashka, or Jack with the Bear's Ear.

Now when Jack with the Bear's Ear was beginning to attain his full growth
he used to walk in the street and endeavour to play with the children;
and the child whom he seized by the hand, off he was sure to tear his
hand, and whom he seized by the head, off he would tear his head. The
other pe