Ethan aha Myth-Folklore

Russian Fairy Tales      Bibliography. Russian Fairy Tales by W. R. S. Ralston.  Web Source      Notes:       * Death kills a household in a village every night.       * Cossack discovers it's a witch dressed all in white and chops off her arm. The girl is caught the next morning and drowned. The Cossack is payed.       * Priest's son reads with his back to a dead Princess for three nights. Each night the Headless Princess rises from her coffin and conjures horrors to try and distract the boy.       * Three daughters-in-law are expected to watch their dead father-in-law on three separate nights. The first two are strangled by their undead father-in-law while the third outsmarts him and gains the rights to his wealth.       * A Fiddler sinks into Hell and sees a rich man getting beaten by fiends. 

Leshy      Bibliography. Russian Fairy Tales by W. R. S. Ralston.  Web Source      Notes:      * Husband tricks his bad wife into falling into a bottomless pit into Tartarus.      * Demons are tormented by the wife and one comes up to live in Russia.       * The demon tells the husband to let him possess different folk and the man will heal them and earn a lot of money.       * A hunter finds the leshy on a log in the woods and shoots it.       * The hunter follows the dying Leshy back to its shack.       * There, the Leshy is lying stone dead. He finds the priest's daughter, who's been missing for three years. The priest marries her to the hunter. 

Mediterranean Mythology      Bibliography:  Crash Course Mythology - YouTube      Notes:      * The Sumerians held nature to be more important than human concepts. As the gods and goddesses of the Earth, Sun, and Moon came before any rulers of abstract human emotions such as love or fear.       * Mythology reveals a culture's sense of themselves and nature.       * Sumerians had both a God and Goddess for most element whereas other cultures seem to exclusify each aspect of nature to either an individual god or goddess.       * Zeus reveals true form to Semele and burns her to a crisp.       * Heracles kills his music teacher.       * Given 10 Labors.      * 2 are not counted      * Heracles captures Cerberus for his 12th and final labor.