Posts Tagged ‘legend’
A Christmas Legend: Where the Baboushka Dwells
The little Ouralian chain of mountains called by Russians "Semenoi Poias," or the girdle of the earth, has given birth to a remarkable figure. The Baboushka lived there eighteen hundred years ago. The Baboushka lives there still. As this Christmas legend of a woman is little known, let me translate for you the tale of an old Russian [...]
Christmas with the Fairies
T. F. Thiselton Dyer for The Girl’s Own Paper 1882 From all accounts Christmas seems to have been, from time immemorial, an important season with the elfin race, and many curious accounts of the festive merry doings of these fabled people in years gone by have been handed down to us. According to one popular notion, however mischievous and [...]
