Macedonian Folklore (Classic Reprint)

Greekrspeaking parts of Macedonia, carried on in 1900-1 by the author under the auspices of theE lectors to the Prendergast Studentship and of the Governing Body of Emmanuel College. The materials thus derived from oral tradition have, in some cases, been supplemented from local publications. A mong the latter, special mention must be made of the two excellent booklets on the antiquities and folklore of Liakkovikia, by A. D. Gousios, a native schoolmaster, frequently quoted in the following pages. The peasant almanacks have also yielded a few additional sayings concerning the months. .T he writer has not been content with a bare record of Dreams, magic terrors, spells of mighty power, Witches, and ghosts who rove at midnight hour, but, induced by the example of his betters, has undertaken some tentative flights to Zululand, Yungnulgra, Zamboanga, theS eranglao and Gorong archipelagoes, and other resorts now fashionable among folklorists. Ancient History and modem, theO ld World and theN ew have been laid under contribution, to the limited extent of the authors reading, with the result that many a nursery rhyme, shorn of all its familiar simplicity, has been Started at home and himted in the dark To Gaul, toG reece, and into Noah sark.
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