Front matter
Moses Gaster translation
The Folk-Lore Society FOR COLLECTING AND PRINTING RELICS OF POPULAR ANTIQUITIES, &c. ESTABLISHED IN THE YEAR MDCCCLXXVIII.
PUBLICATIONS OF THE FOLK-LORE SOCIETY
LXXV.
[1915]
RUMANIAN BIRD AND BEAST STORIES
RENDERED INTO ENGLISH BY M. GASTER, Ph.D. VICE-PRESIDENT AND SOMETIME PRESIDENT OF THE FOLK-LORE SOCIETY VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY VICE-PRESIDENT AND SOMETIME PRESIDENT OF THE JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY ETC., ETC.
“But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee;
And the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee.”
Job
xii. 7.
LONDON Published for the Folk-Lore Society by SIDGWICK & JACKSON, LTD., 3 ADAM ST., ADELPHI, W.C. 1915
The right of translation and reproduction is reserved to the author
To Her Majesty Queen Elisabeth of Rumania “Carmen Sylva” To Whom the Soul of the Rumanian People is as an Open Book A Page of that Book Is By Gracious Permission Dedicated