Serbian Folk-lore
Tales, Legends, Heroic Ballads, and Proverbial Wisdom from the South Slavic Oral TraditionBy Anonymous
Length8h 27m
About this audiobook
Serbian Folk-lore offers a compact yet culturally resonant encounter with the oral traditions of Serbia, gathering the legends, songs, beliefs, customs, and proverbial wisdom through which a community articulates its understanding of history, morality, kinship, and the supernatural. Its literary manner is shaped by oral performance: repetition, formulaic phrasing, vivid archetypes, and the interplay of heroic action with domestic and ritual life. Read in the context of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century folklore studies, the work is more than a miscellany of quaint survivals; it preserves vernacular imaginative structures at a moment when modernization, literacy, and national movements were transforming the relationship between oral culture and written literature. The anonymity of the author appropriately directs attention away from individual literary self-fashioning and toward collective authorship. The compiler's likely purpose was documentary as well as interpretive: to record traditions transmitted across generations and to make Serbian cultural expression legible to readers beyond its immediate communities. In this respect, the book participates in the broader European project of collecting folk materials as evidence of historical memory and popular creativity. Readers interested in comparative mythology, Balkan history, ethnography, or the origins of national literatures will find this volume especially rewarding. It invites both attentive reading and critical reflection on how folklore is selected, arranged, and preserved, making it valuable to scholars and general readers alike.
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GenreLiterary Classics
Length8 hrs 27 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 1, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Yiddish Tales (Annotated)
2INTRODUCTION.
3THE BEAR’S SON.
4THE WONDERFUL KIOSK.
5THE SNAKE’S GIFT. LANGUAGE OF ANIMALS.
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6THE GOLDEN APPLE-TREE, AND THE NINE PEAHENS.
7PAPALLUGA;[30] OR, THE GOLDEN SLIPPER.
8THE GOLDEN-FLEECED RAM.
9WHO ASKS LITTLE, GETS MUCH.
10JUSTICE OR INJUSTICE? WHICH IS BEST.
11SATAN’S JUGGLINGS AND GOD’S MIGHT.
12THE WISE GIRL.
13GOOD DEEDS ARE NEVER LOST.
14LYING FOR A WAGER.
15THE WICKED STEPMOTHER.
16BIRD GIRL.
17SIR PEPPERCORN.
18BASH-CHALEK; OR, TRUE STEEL.
19THE SHEPHERD AND THE KING’S DAUGHTER.
20ONE GOOD TURN DESERVES ANOTHER.
21THE BITER BIT.
22THE TRADE THAT NO ONE KNOWS.
23THE THREE SUITORS.
24THE GOLDEN-HAIRED TWINS.
25THE DREAM OF THE KING’S SON.
26THE THREE BROTHERS.
27ANIMALS AS FRIENDS AND AS ENEMIES.
28THE LEGEND OF ST. GEORGE.
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