Segnuis Irritant: Eight Primitive Folk-Lore Stories

This treatise by an ex-pat British baronet, originally published in 1896, proposes in great detail and with much comparative analysis that Slavic folk-lore stories are antecedent to much of the folk-lore of humanity, and are themselves descended from ancient Arctic myths about the solar cycle created when Slavs were living in the far North. To make this argument the author uses eight Slavic tales as examples—Czech, Slovenian, and Lusatian—and describes how these stories inspired later folk-...