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diff --git a/28834.txt b/28834.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d9661d9 --- /dev/null +++ b/28834.txt @@ -0,0 +1,672 @@ +The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Story of Yvashka with the Bear's Ear, by +Anonymous, Edited by Thomas Wise, Translated by George Borrow + + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + + + + +Title: The Story of Yvashka with the Bear's Ear + + +Author: Anonymous + +Editor: Thomas Wise + +Release Date: May 16, 2009 [eBook #28834] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE STORY OF YVASHKA WITH THE +BEAR'S EAR*** + + +Transcribed from the 1913 Thomas J. Wise pamphlet by David Price, email +ccx074@pglaf.org. Many thanks to Norfolk and Norwich Millennium Library, +UK, for kindly supplying the images from which this transcription was +made. + + [Picture: Manuscript of Yvashka with the Bear's ear] + + + + + + THE STORY + OF + YVASHKA WITH THE BEAR'S EAR + + + _Translated from the Russian_ + BY + GEORGE BORROW + + LONDON: + PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION + 1913 + + + + +INTRODUCTION + + +The tale of _Yvashka_; _or_, _Jack with the Bear's Ear_, is a great +favourite in Russia. Its main interest depends not so much on him of the +Bear's Ear, or even his comrade, Moustacho, who angles for trout with his +moustaches, as on Baba Yaga. This personage is the grand mythological +demon of the Russians, and frequently makes her appearance in their +popular tales, but perhaps in none plays so remarkable a part as in the +story of Yvashka. A little information with respect to her will perhaps +not be unacceptable to the reader before entering upon the story. She is +said to be a huge female who goes driving about the steppes in a mortar, +which she forces onward by pounding lustily with a pestle, though of +course, being in a mortar, she cannot wield the pestle without hurting +herself. As she hurries along she draws with her tongue, which is at +least three yards long, a mark upon the dust, and with it seizes every +living thing coming within her reach, which she swallows for the +gratification of her ever-raging appetite. She has several young and +handsome daughters whom she keeps in a deep well beneath her izbushka or +cabin, which has neither door nor window, and stands upon the wildest +part of the steppe upon crow's feet and is continually turning round. +Whenever Baba Yaga meets a person she is in the habit of screaming out:-- + + "_Oho_, _Oho_! + _I ne'er saw Russian wight till now_; + _But now the flesh of a Russian wight_ + _I smell with nose and see with sight_." + +Such is the Russian tradition about Baba Yaga, who is unlike in every +respect any of the goblins and mythological monsters of Western Europe, +except perhaps in her cry, which puts one in mind of the exclamation of +the giant in the English nursery tale of Jack the Giant killer:-- + + "_Fee_, _Fi_, _Fo_, _Fum_, + _I smell the blood of an Englishman_." + +In the demon lore of the Turks, however, there is a ghostly being with +which she seems to have considerable affinity. This goblin is called +Kara Conjulos. Kara Conjulos is a female, and lives at the bottom of a +well in a certain part of Constantinople, from which she emerges every +night and drives about the city in a cart drawn by two buffaloes. She is +much in the habit of stopping at caravansaries, going into the stables +and breeding a confusion and a panic amongst the horses. She has several +daughters, who occasionally accompany her in her expeditions and assist +her in the commission of her pranks. A certain learned effendi, in a +most curious Turkish book which he wrote about Constantinople, has a +great deal to say concerning this goblin and her daughters, and amongst +other things gives an account of a very bad night which he passed in a +caravansary at some little distance from the city owing to the intrusion +of Kara Conjulos and her bevy. + +Now for the story of Yvashka, or Jack. + + GEORGE BORROW. + + + + +THE STORY OF YVASHKA WITH THE BEAR'S EAR + + +In a certain kingdom, in a certain government, there lived a peasant +whose wife bore him a son who had the ear of a bear, on which account he +was called Yvashka, or Jack with the Bear's Ear. + +Now when Jack with the Bear's Ear was beginning to attain his full growth +he used to walk in the street and endeavour to play with the children; +and the child whom he seized by the hand, off he was sure to tear his +hand, and whom he seized by the head, off he would tear his head. The +other peasants, not being able to put up with such outrages, told Jack's +father that he must either cause his son to mend his manners or not +permit him to go out into the street to play with the children. The +father for a long time struggled to reform Jack, but perceiving that his +son did not improve he resolved to turn him out of doors, and said to +him: "Depart from me and go wheresoever you please. I will keep you no +longer in my house, for I am much afraid lest some misfortune should +happen to me on your account." + +So Jack with the Bear's Ear, having taken leave of his father and mother, +departed on his way. He journeyed for a long time until he arrived at a +forest, where he beheld a man cutting oaken billets. He went up to him +and said, "Good fellow, what may be your name?" + +"Quercillo," replied the other, whereupon they became sworn brothers and +proceeded farther. Arriving at a rocky mountain they perceived a man +hewing the rock, to whom they said, "God help you, honest lad; and what +may your name be?" + +"My name is Montano," replied he. + +Whereupon they called him their brother, and proposed to him that he +should leave off digging the mountain and should consent to go with them +forthwith. He agreed to their proposal, and all three forthwith +proceeded on their way, and journeyed for some time. Arriving at the +bank of a river they saw a man sitting, who had a pair of enormous +moustaches with which he angled for fish for his subsistence. They all +three said to him, "God help you brother in your fish-catching." + +"Thank you, brothers," he replied. + +"What may your name be?" they inquired. + +"Moustacho," he answered. Whereupon they called him also their brother +and invited him to join their company, which he did not refuse. And so +these four journeyed on, and whether they journeyed long or short, far or +near, my tale will be soon told, though the deed was a long time in +doing. At last they arrived at a forest, where they saw a cabin standing +on crow's feet, which kept turning here and there. They went up to it, +and said, "Cabin, cabin, stand with your rear to the wood and your front +to us." + +The cabin instantly obeyed them, and they having entered it began to +consult how they should contrive to live there. After that they all went +into the forest, killed some game, and prepared food for themselves. On +the second day they left Quercillo at home to cook the dinner, whilst +they themselves went into the forest to hunt. Quercillo having got ready +the dinner took his seat by the window and awaited the return of his +brethren. At that moment came Baba Yaga riding on an iron mortar, which +she urged on with the pestle, whilst with her tongue lolling out of her +mouth she drew a mark on the earth as she went, and entering into the +cabin she said: + + "'_Till now ne'er a Russian wight_ + _I've heard with ear_, _or seen with sight_, + _Now full clear I see and hear_." + +Then turning to Quercillo she inquired, "Wherefore did you come hither, +Quercillo?" Thereupon she began to beat him, and continued beating him +until he was half dead, after which she devoured all the food which had +been got ready, and then rode off. + +Upon the return of Quercillo's comrades from the chase they asked him for +their dinner, and he, not informing them that Baba Yaga had been there, +said that he had fallen into a swoon, and had got nothing ready. + +In the very same manner did Baba Yaga treat Montano and Moustacho. At +last, it coming to the turn of Jack with the Bear's Ear to sit at home, +he remained whilst his comrades went forth in quest of game. Jack cooked +and roasted everything, and having found in Baba Yaga's cabin a pot of +honey he placed a post by the perch, and having split it at the top he +thrust in a wedge and emptied the honey upon the post. He himself sat on +the perch, concealing behind him the post whilst he prepared three iron +rods. After the lapse of a little time arrived Baba Yaga and screamed +forth: + + "'_Till now ne'er a Russian true_ + _I've heard with ear_, _or seen with view_, + _Now I do both hear and view_." + +"Wherefore have you come hither, Jack with the Bear's Ear, and why dost +thou thus waste my property?" Whereupon she began to lick with her +tongue about the post, and no sooner did her tongue arrive at the fissure +than Jack snatched the wedge from out of the post, and having entrapped +her tongue he leaped up from the perch, and scourged her with the iron +rods until she begged that he would let her go, promising that he should +be in peace from her and that she would never more come to him. + +Jack consented to her prayer, and having set her tongue at liberty he +placed Baba Yaga in a corner whilst he himself sat by the window awaiting +his companions, who soon returned and imagined that Baba Yaga had acted +with him in the same manner as with themselves. But perceiving that he +had the food all ready prepared they were much astonished thereat. After +dinner he related how he had dealt with Baba Yaga, and laughed at them +that they were unable to manage her. At last, wishing to show them the +drubbed and beaten Baba Yaga he led them to the corner, but there she was +no longer. So they resolved to go in pursuit of her, and having arrived +at a stone they lifted it up and perceived a deep abyss, down which they +thought of descending. But as none of his companions had courage enough +to do this, Jack with the Bear's Ear consented to go. So they began to +construct a cable, and having made a canoe for him to sit in they let him +down into the gulf. + +Meanwhile Jack commanded them to wait for him a whole week, and provided +during this time they received no intelligence of him to await no longer. +"If I be alive and pull the rope draw up the canoe provided it be light; +but if it be heavy cut the rope in order that you may not draw up Baba +Yaga instead of me." Then having bid them farewell he descended into the +deep subterranean abyss. + +He remained there for a long time. At length he arrived at a cabin, +which having entered he beheld three beautiful damsels sitting at their +needle and embroidering with gold, and these were the daughters of Baba +Yaga. As soon as they perceived Jack with the Bear's Ear they said, +"Good youth, what has brought you hither? Here lives Baba Yaga, our +mother, and as soon as she arrives you are a dead man, for she will slay +you to a certainty; but if you will deliver us from this place we will +give you information how you may save your life." + +He promised to conduct them out of that abyss, and they said to him, "As +soon as our mother shall arrive she will cast herself upon you and begin +to fight with you, but after that she will desist and will run into the +cellar, where she has two pitchers standing filled with water; in the +blue pitcher is the water of strength and in the white that of weakness." + +Scarcely had the daughters of Baba Yaga concluded their discourse when +they heard their mother coming on the iron mortar driving with the +pestle, whilst with her tongue lolling out of her mouth she drew a mark +as she went, whereupon they acquainted Jack. Baba Yaga having arrived +screamed out: + + "'_Till now ne'er a Russ have I_ + _Heard with ear or seen with eye_, + _Now do I both hear and spy_." + +"For what are you come hither, Jack with the Bear's Ear? Do you imagine +to disturb me here also?" + +Then casting herself suddenly upon him she began to fight. Both combated +for a considerable time, and at length they fell upon the earth. Baba +Yaga jumped up and ran into the cellar, whither Jack likewise rushed +after her, and she without examining seized the white pitcher and Jack +the blue one, and both drank; after that they went out of the cellar and +recommenced their combat. Jack having overpowered her seized her by the +hair and beat Baba Yaga with her own pestle. She began to entreat Jack +to take pity upon her, promised to live at peace with him, and that very +moment to depart from the place. Jack with the Bear's Ear consented +thereto, and ceased beating Baba Yaga. + +As soon as she was departed he went to her daughters, thanked them for +their information, and told them to prepare to leave the place. Whilst +they were packing up their things he went to the rope, and having pulled +at it his companions instantly let down the canoe, in which he placed the +eldest sister, and by her sent word to them to draw them all up. Jack's +comrades having drawn up the damsel were much astonished at the sight of +her, but having learned from her the whole affair they hoisted up her +other sisters. At last they let down the canoe for Jack, but he having +this time stowed into the canoe many clothes and a great deal of money, +and having likewise seated himself therein, his comrades feeling the +weight imagined that it was Baba Yaga who sat there, and cutting the rope +left poor Jack in the abyss. Thereupon they agreed to marry the damsels, +and lost no time in so doing. + +In the meantime Jack with the Bear's Ear walked for a long time about +this abyss seeking for an outlet. At last by good fortune he found in +the gloomy place an iron door, which having broke open he proceeded for a +long time in the same darkness; he then beheld a light at a distance, and +directing his course straight towards it he emerged from the cavern. +After this he determined to seek his comrades, whom he soon found, and +the whole three were already married. Upon seeing them he began to ask +them why they had left him in the hole. His comrades in great terror +told Jack that it was Moustacho who had cut the rope, and him Jack +immediately slew, and took his wife to be his own. Then they all lived +together, and acquired great riches. + + * * * * * + + LONDON: + Printed for THOMAS J. 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