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TALES OF THE BALKANS:

TALES

AND

LEGENDS OF THE BALKANS

by Anastasia Ortenzio

Illustration: Cyprienne KEMP

Ed Flies, (April 2008)

Here brought to life the ancient legends and beliefs Macedonia explaining how the world began and why of all things: why the sun did not marry, why only women give birth, why death is unforgiving ...

Collection of tales, myths and legends collected from 1883 to 1902 by which Macedonia Cepenkov collectors. These tales, never translated to date, slept quietly in huge volumes forgotten and doomed to extinction.

can be found in many of these stories, traces of the Bogomil belief (originally the Cathars)

A very accurate bibliography, listing the names of collectors, storytellers as well as places where the stories were collected, complete this collection.

translation faithfully respects the collection, with no attempt to embellish the story by literary artifice.

" There was a time when the wood had itself from the mountain. When we needed it enough to say" I need wood for tomorrow "and presto, the timber arrived. A woman was cooking a Zelnik and had lingered like wood, it ran out. Then the woman went to meet him. She found the way for their return, she sat astride. When he saw it, God was upset. He stopped the timber could not go further and told the woman: So far this is the timber that brought thee, now it's you who wears it. And since it was so .

There is a storytelling show Balkan see below