John Theophilus Naaké (1823-1882), an erudite scholar of Slavonic literature and folklore, contributed significantly to the dissemination of Eastern European tales to the English-speaking world. Naaké's most notable work, 'Slavonic Fairy Tales,' published in 1874, is a collection of traditional stories from Russia, Poland, and Serbia, among other Slavic nations. This anthology was one of the earli...