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       MYTHS AND FOLK-TALES
              OF THE
   RUSSIANS, WESTERN SLAVS, AND
              MAGYARS

        By JEREMIAH CURTIN


              BOSTON
    LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY
               1890


         _Copyright, 1890_
        By Jeremiah Curtin


         University Press
  John Wilson and Son, Cambridge




To FRANCIS JAMES CHILD, PH.D., LL.D.

_Professor of English in Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass._


My dear Professor Child,--

It is more than a quarter of a century since you began for