[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 fuer 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 "Islaendische Volkssagen,"
pp. 112, and 300, 301.

[415] As in the case of Glam, the terrible spectre whi