Tale
Lietuviškos pasakos
Not translated into English
Jonas Basanavičius · 1898
Synopsis
Lithuanian tales: two parts of folk tales from Suvalkija, which the editor presented as mythological and still unpublished. A large share of them comes from his brother Vincas, a peasant of Ožkabaliai, who noted down around his village and Bartninkai some seven hundred stories and sent them to him for publication; for the second volume, the editor also paid collectors. The 1902 volume omitted, to his regret, a tale on the creation of man and woman.
Context
The first part appeared in 1898 in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, as a supplement to the journal Dirva, whose printing the priest Antanas Milukas financed; the second followed in 1902, published by Antanas Kaupas and two other priests. The editor's letters to Milukas, published in 1924, discuss the manuscript, the spelling, the misprints and the delays. The undertaking was continued by a collection of miscellaneous tales in four parts, printed in Chicago from 1903 to 1905, and by a volume of stories about souls and devils.
Who it is for
Tales from oral tradition, published in the Lithuanian orthography of the time; no French or English translation of the collection has been found.
Prizes and reception
Ranked by the Lithuanian encyclopaedia among the notable collections of Lithuanian tales, of which its editor was one of the first researchers.
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