ALTAIC • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Altaic

... fairest of whom is compelled by the hero to help him in overcoming her father. She accordingly instructs him to eat no meat and to drink no wine at the devil's house, otherwise he will be poisoned. This may remind us of Kan Puedaei, who in the Altaic ballad descends with his steed to the middle of the earth and encounters various monsters. There the grass and the water of the mountain forest through which he rode were poison. In both cases, what is probably meant is, that to eat or drink is to return no more from ...

— The Science of Fairy Tales - An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology • Edwin Sidney Hartland