Rumanian Bird and Beast Stories
Moses Gaster
RENDERED INTO ENGLISH
BY
M. GASTER, Ph.D.
VICE-PRESIDENT AND SOMETIME PRESIDENT OF THE FOLK-LORE SOCIETY
VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY
VICE-PRESIDENT AND SOMETIME PRESIDENT OF THE JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY
ETC., ETC.
“But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee;
And the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee.”
LONDON
Published for the Folk-Lore Society by
SIDGWICK & JACKSON, LTD., 3 ADAM ST., ADELPHI, W.C.
1915
The right of translation and reproduction
is reserved to the author
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
- PREFACE
- INTRODUCTION.
- I.
- I. B.
- II.
- III.
- IV.
- V.
- VI.
- VII.
- VIII.
- IX.
- X.
- XI.
- XII.
- XIII.
- XIV.
- XV.
- XVI.
- XVII.
- XVIII.
- XIX.
- XX.
- XXI.
- XXII.
- XXIII.
- XXIV.
- XXV.
- XXVI.
- XXVII.
- XXVIII.
- XXVIII. A.
- XXIX.
- XXX.
- XXX. A.
- XXXI.
- XXXII.
- XXXIII.
- XXXIV.
- XXXV.
- XXXVI.
- XXXVII.
- XXXVIII.
- XXXIX.
- XL.
- XLI.
- XLII.
- XLIII.
- XLIV.
- XLV.
- XLVI.
- XLVII.
- XLVII. A.
- XLVIII.
- XLIX.
- L.
- LI.
- LII.
- LIII.
- LIV.
- LIV. A.
- LV.
- LVI.
- LVII.
- LVIII.
- LIX.
- LX.
- LXI.
- LXII.
- LXIII.
- LXIV.
- LXV.
- LXVI.
- LXVII.
- LXVII. A.
- LXVIII.
- LXIX.
- LXX.
- LXXI.
- LXXII.
- LXXIII.
- LXXIV.
- LXXV.
- LXXVI.
- LXXVII.
- LXXVIII.
- LXXIX.
- LXXX.
- LXXX. A.
- LXXXI.
- LXXXII.
- LXXXIII.
- LXXXIV.
- LXXXV.
- LXXXVI.
- LXXXVII.
- LXXXVIII.
- LXXXIX.
- XC.
- XCI.
- XCII.
- XCIII.
- XCIV.
- XCV.
- XCVI.
- XCVII.
- XCVIII.
- XCIX.
- C.
- CI.
- CII.
- CIII.
- CIV.
- CV.
- CVI.
- CVII.
- CVIII.
- CIX.
- CX.
- CXI.
- CXII.
- CXIII.
- CXIV.
- CXV.
- CXVI.
- CXVII.
- CXVIII.
- CXIX.
- APPENDIX I.
- APPENDIX II.
- THREE STORIES FROM ARKIR, THE RUMANIAN VERSION OF THE STORY OF AHIKAR.
- APPENDIX III.
- ANIMAL STORIES FROM THE HEBREW ALPHABET OF BEN SIRA.
- INDEX.
- Colophon
