Translating the Fairy Tales of Europe's Last Pagans into English

Jan. 13, 2012 - PRLog -- For thousands of years and to this day the people of the Russian province of Mari-El gather in sacred groves to pray to their deities and nature spirits. For them the gods have never left the forest but still aid humanity from the trees. http://www.zeluna.net has been translating the fairy tales of the Mari-El people into English for the first time ever and is making them available for free at http://www.zeluna.net/mari-el
As with many fairy tales of the Finno-Ugric people fairy tales are fantastic in nature and include the story of a women who is happily married to a rat before tragedy strikes, the tale of a boy who gains the magical power to create money from his spit and the troubles this causes him as greedy people seek to steal this power for themselves, the story of a man who threatens to chop down a lime tree in order to force the powerful spirit living inside it to grant his wishes over and over again and more.
Through these fairy tales and the beliefs of the people of Mari-El we can gain better insight into the nature of ancient Europe.

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Zeluna.net translates many fairy tales into English for the first time and researches the place of fairies in fairy tales.