Macedonian FolkloreAt the University Press, 1903 - 372 sider |
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... peasant almanacks have also yielded a few additional sayings concerning the months . The writer has not been content with a bare record of Dreams , magic terrors , spells of mighty power , Witches , and ghosts who rove at midnight hour ...
... peasant almanacks have also yielded a few additional sayings concerning the months . The writer has not been content with a bare record of Dreams , magic terrors , spells of mighty power , Witches , and ghosts who rove at midnight hour ...
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... peasants , who resort to those centres from the environs for commercial or religious purposes , and only in very few cases from native citizens . The Khans , or inns , in which these villagers stop , may be said to constitute the sole ...
... peasants , who resort to those centres from the environs for commercial or religious purposes , and only in very few cases from native citizens . The Khans , or inns , in which these villagers stop , may be said to constitute the sole ...
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... peasants . Yet no sooner were their fears of being the victims of a practical joke dispelled than they evinced the shrewdest comprehension of the nature and value of the work . In this I could not help thinking that the Macedonian folk ...
... peasants . Yet no sooner were their fears of being the victims of a practical joke dispelled than they evinced the shrewdest comprehension of the nature and value of the work . In this I could not help thinking that the Macedonian folk ...
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... Ottoman Regie at Cavalla , who spared no pains in persuading the peasants , who worked in the tobacco - stores , to disclose their treasures to me . I did not repeat the experiment . Great part of The Folklorist in Macedonia 7.
... Ottoman Regie at Cavalla , who spared no pains in persuading the peasants , who worked in the tobacco - stores , to disclose their treasures to me . I did not repeat the experiment . Great part of The Folklorist in Macedonia 7.
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... peasantry of Macedonia is measured not so much by the conventional calendar as by the labours and festivals which are proper to the various seasons of the year . Seed - time ... peasants themselves II The Folk-Calendar and the Seasons.
... peasantry of Macedonia is measured not so much by the conventional calendar as by the labours and festivals which are proper to the various seasons of the year . Seed - time ... peasants themselves II The Folk-Calendar and the Seasons.
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