PUBLICATIONS
OF
THE FOLK-LORE SOCIETY
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The Folk-Lore Society
FOR COLLECTING AND PRINTING
RELICS OF POPULAR ANTIQUITIES, &c.
ESTABLISHED IN
THE YEAR MDCCCLXXVIII.
FOR COLLECTING AND PRINTING
RELICS OF POPULAR ANTIQUITIES, &c.
ESTABLISHED IN
THE YEAR MDCCCLXXVIII.
LXXV.
[1915]
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RUMANIAN BIRD AND BEAST STORIES
“But ask now the beasts, and they shall teachthee;
And the fowls of the air, and they shall tellthee.”
Job xii. 7.
LONDON
Published for the Folk-Lore Society by
SIDGWICK & JACKSON, LTD., 3 ADAM ST., ADELPHI, W.C.
1915
Published for the Folk-Lore Society by
SIDGWICK & JACKSON, LTD., 3 ADAM ST., ADELPHI, W.C.
1915
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To
Her Majesty
Queen Elisabeth of Rumania
“Carmen Sylva”
To Whom the Soul of the Rumanian People is as an Open Book
A Page of that Book
Is
By Gracious Permission
Dedicated [vii]
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PREFACE.
“Neither can men hear the voice of the cattle;both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled, they aregone.” The forests are silent, over hill and dale hangs a blackpall; beast and bird are in hiding; the voices are hushed. But beforethey have disappear
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