2009 marked the 150th anniversary of the birth of the outstanding Jewish-Croatian folklorist, writer and sexologist Friedrich Salomo Krauss (1859–1938). The legacy of the Austrian scientist is practically unknown to the domestic reader, although his unique collection of erotic folklore of the South Slavic peoples of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, formed mainly during the Krauss expedition of 1884–1885 to Bosnia, Herzegovina, Slavonia and Dalmatia, can be placed on a par with the famous " Russian folk tales are not for print" by A. N. Afanasyev and "Tales are not for print" by V. N. Gnatyuk. This Russian edition of "Treasured Stories of the Southern Slavs" is preceded by three articles - the first two are of a purely historical and biographical nature, the third opens the collection " Folk legends of the southern Slavs", prepared on the basis of the Krauss archives and published in Vienna in 2002. Placed together, the articles allow one to form a large-scale picture of the personality of the author of this book. .Contents.Raymond L. Burt. Friedrich Salomo Krauss (1859-1938). Autobiographical information and documents on the biobibliography of a folklorist, writer and sexologist. Michael Martischnig. On the 50th anniversary of the death of Friedrich Salomo Krauss (Salomon Friedrich Kraus). Raymond L. Burt. Introduction [to the publication “Folk Traditions of the Southern Slavs” by F. -S. Krauss. - Vienna, 2002]. Treasured stories of the southern Slavs. About some customs and views of the southern Slavs. About word usage. About the use of the names of the genital organs as proper names. About miraculous conception without previous sexual intercourse. About how to achieve love pleasure. About x... and about eggs, etc.