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Read Hryhorii Kvitka-Osnovianenko’s The Witch of Konotop in Ukrainian. Level C1: a Cossack captain, a scheming scribe and a witch hunt, with word translation.
Cossack ranks and offices (сотник, писар, хорунжий), village life and folk beliefs about witches, Left-Bank vernacular of the 1830s (впять, отсе, сеє), mock Church Slavonic, Zhelekhivka spelling (нїчого, сьвіт, допхав ся), very long narrative sentences
This article contains the full text of Hryhorii Kvitka-Osnovianenko’s comic novella The Witch of Konotop (written 1833, published 1837), in which the captain of a Cossack company town and his scheming scribe hunt witches in the town pond instead of marching on campaign. Level C1 suits readers who can follow very long sentences and old spellings in Ukrainian. You will learn the vocabulary of Cossack ranks, village life and folk belief, and the Zhelekhivka spelling of the 1911 edition.
