Note (14) — 14. Die Waldfrau.(14)

This is one of the Western Slavonian myths, belonging in Bozena Nuncova's collection. It is very popular in Bohemia, and has been translated into English by Wratislaw, in his “Sixty Folk Tales from Exclusively Slavonic Sources.” The belief in wood nymphs, who took an interest in, and helped industrious mortals, was very common among all the nations of Northern and Central Europe, where they were known as Wood and Moss Maidens or as Huldra-folk.