Sixty Folk-Tales
from Exclusively Slavonic Sources
by A. H. Wratislaw
The Plague Swarm
[1890]
A RUTHENIAN, having lost his wife and children by the plague, fled into the forest from his desolate cottage and sought safety there. He wandered about all day long; towards evening he constructed a booth of branches, lit a little fire, and fell asleep, wearied out. [...]
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