M
Macedonia.
One of the provinces in the Balkan territories, 1
Magyar-s.
Prince Marko and, 92–94
“Maiden, The Bird-.”
A Serbian folk-tale, 280–283
“Maiden Wiser than the Tsar,
The.”
A Serbian folk-tale, 287–291
Marko, Krazyevitch.
Pro-claimed himself King of the Serbians;
eldest son of King Voukashin, 6,
59;
aids Turks against the Christians, 6;
killed in battle of Rovina, 6;
endowed with superhuman strength, and presented with a wonderful
courser, Sharatz, by a veela, 17;
his guests on his Slava day, 45;
the goussle and exploits of, 57;
Queen Helen mother of, 59;
traditional son of a veela and a Zmay, 59;
the most beloved of Serbian heroes, 59, 60;
virtues of, 59;
tradition extols him as faithful defender of Prince Ourosh, 61;
Serbian belief that he will reappear to reestablish the mediæval
Empire, 64;
his supposed appearance at the battle of Prilip (1912), 64, 65;
tells whose the Empire shall be, 65–71;
cursed by his father, 71;
the Moor and, 72–81;
the Sultana’s dream concerning, 74;
wedding tax abolished by, 82–86;
Bogdan the Bully and, 87–89;
General Voutcha and, 89–94;
wedding procession of, 94–100;
the Moorish princess and, 100–102;
the veela Raviyoyla and, 102–105;
the Turkish huntsmen and, 105–108;
Moussa Kessedjiya and, 108–114;
his death, 115–118
Marra.
Alternative, Pepelyouga (Cinderella), 226–229
Marriage.
The customs obtaining at Serbian, 32–40
Mass, The Holy.
Mention of, in Serbian ballad “The Saints Divide the
Treasures,” 196
Maximus Tzrnoyevitch.
See Tzrnoyevitch
Mehmed. Turkish Grand Vizier;
Vlah-Ali independent of, 121
Methodius.
Cyrillos and, the so-called Slavonic apostles who translated the
teaching of Christ into the ancient Slav language, 2, 29
Michael. King of Ledyen, father of Princess
Roksanda;
Tsar Doushan sues for the hand of Roksanda, 150;
Theodor reports to the Tsar result of his mission to King of Ledyen,
151, 152
Michael, Archangel.
Death and, 31;
kolyivo not prepared for, 41
Michaylo. Son of Stephen Voïslav;
obtains title of King from Pope Gregory VII, 3;
King Bodin son of, 3
Michel (Serbian Mihaylo). Son of Milosh
Obrenovitch;
succeeds his father as prince of Serbia, 10
Michel III, Emperor.
Mission of Cyrillos and Methodius to, 29
Middle Ages.
“Banovitch Strahinya,” one of the finest ballads composed
anonymously by Serbian bards during the, 119
Mijatovitch, Madame C.
Reference to Serbian Folk-lore, by, 305
Milan.
Succeeds his cousin Michel as prince of Serbia, 10;
war of 1876–8 against Turkey by, 10;
acknowledgment of Serbian independence by Treaty of Berlin during rule
of, 10;
his abdication, 11
Milan of Toplitza.
General Voutcha and, 89–94
Militchevitch.
A famous Serbian ethnographist relates incident re a
resnik (priest) who read prayers out of the apocrypha of Peroon,
22
Militza, Tsarina.
The Zmay of Yastrebatz and the, 129–133;
deceives the Zmay, 130;
recognizes Zmay-Despot Vook, 131;
Tsar Lazarus and the, 170–176;
as her nine brothers Yougovitchs are to accompany Tsar Lazarus to
battle on field of Kossovo she pleads for one brother to be left behind
with her, 170;
her brother Boshko Yougovitch refuses to remain behind, 171;
succoured by Golouban, 172;
news of battle brought by two ravens to, 172, 173;
death of Lazarus and her brothers described by Miloutin, 173, 174
Milosh Obilitch.
The Sultan Amourath perishes by the hand of, 7, 175
Milosh Obrenbegovitch, Voïvode.
Ivan Tzrnoyevitch invites to be the stari-svat in connexion with
his son’s wedding, 138–149;
Maximus Tzrnoyevitch slays, 148;
Yovan Obrenbegovitch brother of, 149
Milosh Obrenovitch.
Succeeds in re-establishing the Belgrade pashalik, 10;
forced to abdicate, 10;
restored by the Skoupshtina, 10;
his death, 10;
Michel son of, 10
Milosh of Potzerye. A Serbian knight;
Bogdan the Bully and, 87–89;
General Voutcha and, 89–94;
the veela Raviyoyla and, 102–105
Milosh-the-Shepherd.
The mother of the two Voïnovitchs counsels them to send for,
153;
his meeting with his two brothers, 154;
joins the wedding procession of Tsar Doushan, 155;
rides the steed Koulash, 154,
155;
his fight for Koulash, 158,
159;
he undertakes the first test on behalf of Tsar Doushan, in order to win
Roksanda, 160–162;
the second test undertaken by, 162, 163;
succeeds in the third test, 164;
succeeds in the fourth test by discovering the identity of Princess
Roksanda, 164–166;
his contest with Balatchko, 167–169;
Balatchko slain by, 168;
discloses his identity to Tsar Doushan, 168
Milosh, Voïvode.
The veela Raviyoyla wounds, 17;
the great Serbian hero who slays the Turkish sultan, Amourath I,
173
Miloutin.
I. Dragoutin, his brother, king of Serbia, retires in favour of,
4; one of the most remarkable
descendants of Nemanya, 5; Stevan
Datchanski son of, 5.
II. Servant of Prince Lazarus; relates to Tsarina Militza death of Tsar
Lazarus and her nine brothers on field of Kossovo, 173, 174.
III. Prince of Ressava; Iconia daughter of, 211–212.
Minister.
The treacherous, in the Serbian folk-tale “Good Deeds Never
Perish,” 294
Mirotch.
Prince Marko and Milosh of Potzerye ride across the mountain of,
102
Mission.
Of Cyrillos and Methodius to the Emperor Michel III, 29
Miyatovich, M. Chedo.
Personal friend of King Alexander, 11
Mohammed.
The vizier of Tyoopria undertakes to make Stephan Yakshitch love the
creed of, 179
Mohammedanism.
Prince Maximus and Yovan Obrenbegovitch embrace, 149
Moldavia.
Many noble Serbian families take refuge with Christian princes of,
8
Momchilo.
Queen Helen, sister of the adventurous knight, 59
Momtchilo, Voïvode.
Vidossava the lonely consort of, 186;
Yaboutchilo the steed of, 187–191;
King Voukashin marches an army against, 187;
the strange dream of, 189;
falls into an ambuscade, 189;
his valiant fight, 190;
Yevrossima vainly attempts to rescue, 191;
the death of, 192;
his castle pillaged, 193
Montenegro.
Never subdued by Turks, 8;
belief in, that each house has its guardian spirit, 18;
belief in vampires in, 21, 22;
Nicholas I Petrovitch king of, 120;
“The Marriage of Maximus Tzrnoyevitch” the source of the
drama “The Empress of the Balkans” by king of, 134;
Vladika Danilo Petrovitch, uncle of the present king of, who first
assumed the title of Prince as a hereditary one, 184;
few instances of treachery in, 185
Moor, The.
Wedding tax inflicted by, 82–86
Moorish Chieftain, A.
Prince Marko and, 72–80
Morava.
The river of, 2;
Theodore of Stalatch at, 210
Moravians.
Their conversion to Christianity, 29
Moussa Arbanass.
See Moussa Kessedjiya
Moussa Kessedjiya.
Prince Marko and, 108–114
Mouyo.
His welfare in the Other World described in the Serbian popular
anecdote “The Era from the Other World,” 331–333
Mrnyavtchevitch.
Three brothers who built Skadar (Scutari), 198
Mussulman Faith.
The vizier of Tyoopria tries to convert Stephan Yakshitch to the,
179
Mythology.
Giants (djins) in Bulgarian, Croatian, and Slavonian, we owe to
the mediæval cycle of myths, 27, 28
Myths.
Influence on Southern-Slavonic peoples of Græco-Oriental and
Christian legends and, 14