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There was once an old woman who was a terrible witch and she had a daughter and a granddaughter. The time came for the old crone to die . . . ~ The 1887 collection of Russian Fairy Tales by W. R. S. Ralston is a collection of Slavonic Folk-Lore, presenting and discussing the stories told in peasant villages from generation to generation and introduces many characters character types that have become staples of horror and speculative fiction. In these tales we meet witches and warlocks, wise men and women and fools. Vampires, Zombies and Baba Yaga. Their stories are all here, along with learned discussions of their significance and origins. ~ There were once three brothers, of whom two were sharp-witted but the third was a fool . . . ~ Wild Arancini Classics is delighted to revive this wonderful new edition of Russian Fairy Tales by W. R. S. Ralston.

William Ralston Shedden-Ralston (1828-1889 ) was a noted British scholar of Russia and translator and Russian.He was the only son of W. P. Ralston Shedden, who made his fortune as a merchant in Calcutta and set up home in Palmira Square, Brighton, when he returned to England. William spent most of his early years there. Together with three or four other boys he studied under the Rev. John Hogg of Brixham, Devonshire, until he went to Trinity College, Cambridge in 1846, where he graduated with a BA in 1850.He also studied Russian literature. He translated 93 of Ivan Andreevich Krylov's two hundred fables, and this work, published in 1868 as Krilof and his Fables, ran to numerous editions. The following year he brought out a translation of Ivan Turgenev's Nest of Gentlefolk as Liza; in 1872, his 439-page Songs of the Russian People as Illustrative of Slavonic Mythology and Russian Social Life, and in 1873 a bloodthirsty collection of Russian Folk Tales. He made two or three journeys to Russia, formed numerous literary acquaintances there, and had a lasting friendship with Turgenev. He also became a corresponding member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences of St. Petersburg. He visited Serbia twice, and made numerous visits to Germany, Belgium, and Switzerland.In 1874 he published Early Russian History, the substance of four lectures delivered at the Taylor Institution in Oxford. His visits to Russia were mainly to collect material for another, more comprehensive account. Having contracted for its publication with Messrs. Cassell & Co, at the last moment he allowed them to cancel the agreement and publish instead Donald Mackenzie Wallace's book Russia.He also possessed a gift for narrating stories orally. He devised a novel form of public entertainment, telling stories to large audiences in lecture-halls, making several successful appearances at St. George's and St James's Halls. He gave story-tellings to the young princes and princesses at Marlborough House, and to other social gatherings; and also, in aid of charities, to audiences in east London and the provinces.(Source: Goodreads)