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Taras Bulba, and Other Tales

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2018
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Cossack villages. In the Setch, a large wooden barrack.

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Sometimes written Zaporovian.

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Enormous wooden sheds, each inhabited by a troop or kuren.

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That is of the Greek Church. The Poles were Catholics.

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Lyakhs, an opprobrious name for the Poles.

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The Cossack waggons have their axles smeared with tar instead of grease.

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A dish of rice or wheat flour, with honey and raisins, which is brought to the church on the celebration of memorial masses.

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“To pour out fear” refers to a practice resorted to in case of fear. When it is desired to know what caused this, melted lead or wax is poured into water, and the object whose form it assumes is the one which frightened the sick person; after this, the fear departs. Sonyashnitza is brewed for giddiness and pain in the bowels. To this end, a bit of stump is burned, thrown into a jug, and turned upside down into a bowl filled with water, which is    placed on the patient’s stomach: after an incantation, he is given a spoonful of this water to drink

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