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The Folk-Lore Society, for Collecting and Printing Relics of Popular Antiquities, &c.
PUBLICATIONS OF THE FOLK-LORE SOCIETY. XIII. (1886).
W. R. S. RALSTON, M.A. THE RIGHT HON. THE EARL OF STRAFFORD. EDWARD B. TYLOR, LL.D., F.R.S.
G. L. GOMME, F.S.A., 1, Beverley Villas, Barnes Common, S.W.
HON. JOHN ABERCROMBY. THE EARL BEAUCHAMP, F.S.A. EDWARD BRABROOK, F.S.A. LOYS BRUEYRE. MISS C. S. BURNE. EDWARD CLODD. J. G. FRAZER, M.A. G. L. GOMME, F.S.A. S. HARTLAND, F.S.A. A. GRANGER HUTT, F.S.A. W. F. KIRBY. SIR JOHN LUBBOCK, Bt., F.R.S. REV. DR. RICHARD MORRIS. ALFRED NUTT. T. F. ORDISH. Lt.-Gen. PITT-RIVERS, D.C.L. F.R.S., F.S.A., ETC. PROFESSOR A. H. SAYCE, M.A. CAPTAIN R. C. TEMPLE. J. S. UDAL. HENRY B. WHEATLEY, F.S.A.
EDWARD CLODD, 19, Carleton Road, Tufnell Park, N.
Ireland: G. H. KINAHAN. South Scotland: WILLIAM GEORGE BLACK. North Scotland: Rev. WALTER GREGOR. India: Captain R. C. TEMPLE. China: J. STEWART LOCKHART.
J. J. FOSTER, 36, Alma Square, St. John's Wood, N.W.
Collected by Kriza, Erdélyi, Pap, and Others.
Translated and Edited, with Comparative Notes,
London: Published For The Folk-Lore Society by Elliot Stock, 62, Paternoster Row. 1889.
Westminster: Printed by Nichols and Sons, 25, Parliament Street.
WHOSE INDEFATIGABLE LABOURS AND INDOMITABLE ZEAL HAVE DONE SO MUCH TO ADVANCE OUR KNOWLEDGE OF MANKIND: AND WHOSE ILLUSTRIOUS LIFE IS SO BRIGHT AN EXAMPLE TO EVERY STUDENT,
ON THE STORIES OF THE FATHERLAND HE LOVES SO WELL AND SERVES SO FAITHFULLY
A vast and precious store of Folk-Lore is to be found amongst the Magyars as yet but little known to English readers, and so it is hoped that this work on the subject may prove of some value to the student of Comparative Folk-Lore. The difficulty of the language is one which makes it well nigh impossible for the unaided foreigner to do anything like justice to the stories. We laboured together often till dawn to make the translation as literal as possible, that the reader might have as true a rendering of the Magyar story-teller's method and manner as so different a tongue as English would permit.