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Updated: May 1, 2025
Depart quickly, for if he finds you here he will certainly devour you." "Perhaps after all he would take pity on me. But hide me somewhere, for I am worn and weary, and without shelter for the night." So the Water-Queen was persuaded, and hid him behind the stove. Almost immediately after the Water-King entered.
Oh, do help me to find her; I cannot live without her." "Well," replied the Water-King, "as you love your wife so tenderly I will forgive you for coming here, but I cannot help you to find her, for I do not know where she is. Yet I remember seeing two ducks on the lake yesterday, perchance she is one of them.
Here he stopped, hoping to find out news. On entering the cottage he was met by a woman, who tried to prevent him entering. "What do you want here, unlucky wretch?" said she. "If my husband sees you, he will kill you instantly." "Who is your husband then?" asked the traveller. "What! you do not know him? My husband is the Water-King; everything under water obeys him.
But I should advise you to ask my brother the Fire-King; he may be able to tell you more." Happy to have escaped so easily, he thanked the Water-King and set out to find the Fire-King. But the latter was unable to help him, and could only advise him to consult his other brother, the Air-King.
But, to my amazement, he had never heard of the Leshi and the Vodyanoi, the wood-king and water-king of the folk-tales. At all events, he had never seen them, nor heard their weird frolics in the boughs and waves. The Mordvinian contributed to the entertainment by telling us of his people's costumes and habits, and gave us a lesson in his language, which was of the Tatar-Finnish variety.
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