Explore magical myths and stories that reveal the secrets of how the world was created, tell about the lives of people and animals in the legends of Russia’s small peoples. You will discover amazing and unusual tales passed down from generation to generation across Russia—from the Volga region to Kamchatka, from Siberia to the Caucasus.
The contents include:
- Kets: “The Tale of the Month,” “About the First Hare”
- Eskimos: “The Raven and the Owl,” “The Wonderful Drum”
- Yakuts: “The Gathering of Birds”
- Khanty and Mansi: “Unkhu,” “Six Cunning Women,” “In the Chipmunk’s House,” “The Tale of Milen’kiy”
- Chukchi: “A Wolf Pack,” “Kachap”
- Koryaks: “The Trickster Fox”
- Koryaks: “Kuikynnyaqut and the Wolf,” “The Shepherd and the Bear”
- Itelmen: “How Sinanevt Bewitched [Someone],” “Kamanxnavt”
- Mari: “How Yumo Created Life,” “The Flood,” “How a Mari Man Gave His Wife to the Devil”
- Mordvins: “Yoma’s Old Woman and Two Girls”
- Udmurts: “Lopsho Pedun’ and His Shadow,” “How the Hunter Slept by the Fire”
- Saami: “How an Old Saami Outsmarted His Enemies,” “A Tale of a Woman and a Wild Reindeer”
- Nenets: “Why Owls Can’t See Sunlight,” “Yabtane, Yabtako, and Yandoko”
- Enets: “About How They Kidnapped a Wife”
- Nganasans: “The First People,” “The Resurrected Man”
- Selkups: “The Sons of the Old Man of the Sea Cape”
- Tofalars: “The Moose and the Roe Deer,” “Terokysh—The Valley of Flowers”
- Evenks: “How One Evenk Visited the Sky”
- Dolgans: “The Tsar Yeksoekyu”
- Evenks: “Evenk omens and charms—prohibitions”
- Nanai: “Ayoga,” “The Frog and the Beauty”
- Ulchi: “The Tiger and the Boy”
- Udege: “Salémégué”
- Nivkh? (as listed): “The Hunter Neyavkan and the Frogs Eeki”
- Orochi: “The Tale of the Sister and the Seven Little Brothers”
- Orok: “About the People of the Namis Kind”
- Nivkhs: “An Old Man Lived with an Old Woman”
- Aleuts: “The One-Eyed Man and the Transformation of a Woman into a Fox”
- Yukaghirs: “Reflection”
- Kalmyks: “The Poor Man Mu”
- Kumyks: “Jin Hammát,” “Shaitan and People”
- Abazins: “The Little Fish”
- Kabardians: “The Birth of Sosruko,” “Zhane”
- Kurds: “Gulbarin,” “Kyrkh Sachliye”
- Ossetians: “A Leopard Seeks an Opponent,” “A Man and a Hedgehog,” “Aldar and His Two Wives”
- Adyghe: “Khan Santemir and Khan Tohtamysh”
- Mountain Tajiks: “The Dead Man with Needles,” “The Clever Son”
- Chechens: “The Brave Kant”
- Ingush: “How an Old Man Outsmarted the Shaitans”