30 Nivôse CCXIV (January 19, 2006)
You're a Bedtime Story — the One That Keeps the Curtains Closed
It struck me whilst walking home along the dark, wet streets (7°C! In January! At night!) just how perfect Morphine's The Night is for occasions like that. So, in commemoration of this, here's a collection of Russian folk tales that I recently discovered.
The list isn't without flaws, with at least one being incomplete, and others appearing as if they were OCRed, but never proof-checked afterwards. For this reason, I suggest using this alternate source for The Apples of Youth and the Living Water, Baba Yaga, and The Cat and the Fox (listed on the other page as Liza the Fox and Catafay the Cat). Those links contain notes by the page author (and translator), as well as one extra tale that doesn't appear to be in the first list (The Old Man and the Bear).
Enjoy. I'm going to bed now.










