Tolstoy's fables- Another of the most successful attempts to translate Aesop's fables. As a result, small, but extremely valuable works in the literary and philosophical sense were born. It makes sense to read Tolstoy's fables, at least in order to penetrate and appreciate this direction of literature.
Who exactly is it useful read Tolstoy's fables? Children or adults? Our answer is everyone! In fables like no other literary trends, briefly and clearly outlines the educational and cultural level, which is easily perceived by even the smallest listeners and this becomes a strong support in the further socio-cultural development of a full-fledged personality little man. Also, Tolstoy's fables reveal very well deep meaning fables of the wise Aesop. Like other fabulists, Tolstoy had a personal opinion on how to rewrite and present the genius of Aesop. Undoubtedly, his point of view deserves the highest attention.
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The ancient Greek philosopher Aesop left behind a large number of fables that have managed not to get lost for two and a half millennia. And it was they who served as the basis for the fables of various writers, as well as for Krylov's fables, well known to all of us. And as soon as the fables ancient Greek fell into the hands of Tolstoy, he burned with a desire to acquaint young readers with them. The only question left is how to make the translation understandable to children.
As we already know, Aesop wrote his fables in prose, which is not always understandable and interesting to children. Therefore, all subsequent translations were carried out in poetic form, which, in Tolstoy's opinion, did not simplify the reading of wise source codes, but, on the contrary, made their reading more difficult, since the fables became too voluminous.
The fables in Tolstoy's translation, which we know, are interesting to read, since the author's idea was to leave the original idea as much as possible, with minimal interference with it. And yet, it was for children that he very carefully worked out the plot and brought it closer to modern realities. Also taking into account folk wisdom and folklore, easily understood by everyone from birth, Tolstoy decorated fables, where necessary, with proverbs or folk tales.
Tolstoy's fables are easy to read, as they contain well-known and close images from children's fairy tales, but he also has unfamiliar characters. The similarity of Tolstoy lies in the fact that by replacing the little-known Aesopian heroes with close and dear folk characters, they made their works accessible to the common people. But sometimes Tolstoy still had to deviate from his principle of resemblance to the original. So the fable "Dragonfly and Ant" was not translated in accordance with the original, because the main characters were already too well known among the people. In this case, we can evaluate this fable of Tolstoy in his performance, but the characters in it will be from the plot of Krylov's fable.
And we are all good famous characters in the face of a fox and a crow, which are written about by Lafontaine and Krylov, who are fighting over a piece of cheese. But we know that these animals eat completely different foods. Tolstoy also understood this very well, so he used Aesop's original presentation of this plot, in which the crow held a piece of meat. As a result, Tolstoy's fables became more accessible and understandable for peasant children, to whom he dedicated his little stories.
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Tolstoy's Fables is another of the most successful attempts to translate Aesop's fables. As a result, small, but extremely valuable works in the literary and philosophical sense were born. It makes sense to read Tolstoy's fables, at least in order to penetrate and appreciate this direction of literature. Tolstoy's fables very well reveal the deep meaning of the wise Aesop's fables. Like other fabulists, Tolstoy had a personal opinion on how to rewrite and present the genius of Aesop. Undoubtedly, his point of view deserves the highest attention.
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Lev Nikolayevich always strived to ensure that morality was clear and precise, lively and concrete. Reading the lines of the fable "Two Comrades", we can notice that the moral "pronounces the one that was left by his friend." Curious about what the Bear told his friend, he said: “And he told me that bad people are those who run away from their comrades in danger.” There are such Nice words: "We do not abandon our own." They fit perfectly with this fable. Distinctive features Tolstoy's fables are characterized by simplicity and clarity of language, deep, philosophical content, and brevity of presentation.
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Two comrades Two comrades were walking through the forest, and a bear jumped out at them. One rushed to run, climbed a tree and hid, while the other remained on the road. He had nothing to do - he fell to the ground and pretended to be dead. The bear came up to him and began to sniff: he stopped breathing. The bear sniffed his face, thought it was dead, and moved away. When the bear left, he climbed down from the tree and laughs: “Well,” he says, “did the bear speak in your ear?” “And he told me that bad people are those who run away from their comrades in danger.”
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The ant went down to the stream: he wanted to get drunk. A wave swept over him and nearly drowned him. Dove carried a branch; she saw - the ant was drowning, and threw a branch into the stream for him. An ant sat on a branch and escaped. Then the hunter set the net on the dove and wanted to slam it shut. The ant crawled up to the hunter and bit him on the leg; the hunter groaned and dropped the net. The dove fluttered and flew away. Ant and dove
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Turtle and Eagle The turtle asked the eagle to teach her how to fly. The eagle did not advise, because it did not fit her, but she kept asking. The eagle took it in its claws, lifted it up and let it go: it fell on the stones and broke.
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Serpent's Head and Tail Serpent's Tail arguing with Serpent's Head about who should go ahead? The head said, "You can't walk in front, you don't have eyes and ears." The tail said: “But I have strength in me, I move you: if I want to wrap myself around a tree, you won’t budge.” The head said: "Let's disperse!" And the tail broke away from the head and crawled forward. But just now he crawled away from his head, fell into a crack and failed.
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Ferret Ferret went to the coppersmith and began to lick the files. Blood flowed from the tongue, and the ferret rejoiced, licked, - he thought that blood was coming from iron, and ruined the whole tongue.
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Fine threads One person ordered fine threads for a spinner. The spinner spun the thin threads, but the man said: "The threads are not good, I need the thinnest threads." The spinner said: “If these are not thin for you, then here are others for you,” and she pointed to an empty place. He said he didn't see. The spinner said: “That’s why you don’t see that they are very thin; I don't see it myself." The fool was delighted and ordered more such threads for himself, and paid money for these.
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The Lion and the Mouse The lion was sleeping. The mouse ran over his body. He woke up and caught her. The mouse began to ask him to let her in; she said: "If you let me go, and I will do you good." The lion laughed that the mouse promised to do good to him, and let it go. Then the hunters caught the lion and tied it to a tree with a rope. The mouse heard a lion's roar, ran, gnawed through the rope and said: “Remember, you laughed, you didn’t think that I could do good to you, but now you see, sometimes good comes from a mouse.”
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THE WOLF AND THE CRANE The wolf choked on a bone and could not vomit. He called the crane and said: - Come on, you crane, you have a long neck, put your head down my throat and pull out the bone: I will reward you. The crane stuck its head in, pulled out a bone and said: - Give me a reward. The wolf gritted his teeth, and said: - Or is it not enough for you that I didn’t bite your head off when I had it in my teeth?
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The wolf sees - the goat is grazing on a stone mountain, and it is impossible for him to get close to her; he said to her: - You should go down: here the place is more even, and the grass for food is much sweeter for you. And the goat says: - That's not why you, wolf, are calling me down - you are not about mine, but about your fodder. wolf and goat
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The wolf and the lamb And the wolf says: - Well, why did you scold my father last summer? The lamb says: - Yes, I am a wolf, and I was not born last summer. The wolf got angry and said: -You can't talk over. So I'm on an empty stomach, for that I'll eat you. The wolf saw the lamb drinking by the river. The wolf wanted to eat the lamb, and he began to find fault with him. - You, - he says, - muddy the water and don't give me a drink. The lamb says: - Oh, wolf, how can I muddy the water for you? After all, I stand below the water, and even then I drink with the tips of my lips.
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The fox and the grapes The fox saw - ripe bunches of grapes hanging, and began to fit in, as if to eat them. She fought for a long time, but could not get it. To drown her annoyance, she says: "Still green."
Mice and a cat (fable)
It became bad for mice to live from a cat. Whatever the day, then two, three will seize. Once the mice came together and began to judge how they could escape from the cat. They judged, they judged, they could not think of anything.
Here is one mouse and said:
“I’ll tell you how we can save ourselves from the cat.” After all, we are dying because we do not know when he is coming to us. It is necessary to put a bell around the cat's neck so that it rattles. Then every time he is close to us, we will hear and we will leave.
“That would be good,” said the old mouse, “but someone needs to put a bell on the cat.” You thought well, but tie a bell around the cat's neck, then we will thank you.
The dog and its shadow (fable)
The dog walked along the plank across the river, and carried meat in its teeth. She saw herself in the water and thought that there was another dog carrying meat, - she threw her meat and rushed to take away from that dog: that meat was not there at all, but her own was carried away by the wave.
And the dog was left with nothing.
Liar (fable)
The boy guarded the sheep and, as if seeing a wolf, began to call:
Help, wolf! Wolf! The men come running and see: it's not true. As he did this two and three times, it happened - and a wolf really came running. The boy began to scream:
"Here, come here, wolf!"
The peasants thought that he was deceiving again, as usual, and did not listen to him. The wolf sees, there is nothing to be afraid of: in the open he cut the whole herd.
Three rolls and one bagel (fable)
One man wanted to eat. He bought a kalach and ate; he still wanted to eat. He bought another roll and ate; he still wanted to eat.
He bought a third roll and ate it, and he was still hungry. Then he bought a bagel, and when he ate one bagel, he suddenly became full. Then the man hit himself on the head and said:
What a fool I am! Why did I eat so many rolls in vain? I should eat one bagel right away.
One man was riding a boat and dropped a precious pearl into the sea. The man returned to the shore, took a bucket and began to draw water and pour it onto the ground. He scooped and poured for three days tirelessly.
On the fourth day, a merman came out of the sea and asked:
Why are you scooping?
Man says:
Then I scoop up that I dropped the pearl.
The waterman asked:
Will you stop soon?
Man says:
When I dry up the sea, then I will stop.
Then the merman returned to the sea, brought the same pearl and gave it to the man.
The wolf wanted to catch a sheep from the flock and went under the wind so that the dust from the flock would be carried on him.
The sheepdog saw him and said:
In vain you, wolf, walk in the dust, your eyes will ache.
And the wolf says:
That's the grief, little dog, that my eyes have been hurting for a long time, and they say that dust from a flock of sheep cures my eyes well.
The wolf choked on a bone and could not vomit. He called the crane and said:
Come on, you crane, you have a long neck, put your head down my throat and pull out the bone: I will reward you.
The crane stuck its head in, pulled out the bone, and said:
Come on, give me a reward.
The wolf gritted his teeth and said:
Or is it not enough for you that I didn’t bite your head off when I had it in my teeth?
The wolf sees - the goat is grazing on a stone mountain, and it is impossible for him to get close to her; he says to her:
You should go down: here the place is evener, and the grass for your food is much sweeter.
And the goat says:
That's not why you, wolf, are calling me downstairs - you are not about mine, but about your fodder.
A hunter with a bow and arrow went hunting, killed a goat, put it on his shoulders and carried it. On the way he saw a boar. The hunter dropped the goat, shot at the boar and wounded him. The wild boar rushed at the hunter, spored him to death, and he himself immediately died. The wolf smelled blood and came to the place where the goat, the boar, the man and his bow lay. The wolf was delighted and thought:
Now I will be full for a long time; only I will not eat everything at once, but I will eat little by little so that nothing is lost: first I will eat what is harder, and then I will eat what is softer and sweeter.
The wolf sniffed the goat, the boar and the man and said:
The hungry wolf was looking for prey. At the edge of the village, he heard a boy crying in the hut, and the old woman says:
If you don't stop crying, I'll give you to the wolf.
Here comes the night; he waits and hears - the old woman again says:
Do not cry, child, I will not give you to the wolf. Just come wolf, let's kill him.
The wolf thought: "Apparently, they say one thing here, but they do another," and walked away from the village.
The wolf saw the lamb drinking by the river.
The wolf wanted to eat the lamb, and he began to find fault with him.
You, - he says, - muddy the water and do not give me a drink.
Lamb says:
Ah, wolf, how can I muddy the waters for you? After all, I stand below the water, and even then I drink with the tips of my lips.
The raven built his nest on the island, and when the crows hatched, he began to carry them from the island to the ground. First, he took one crow in his claws and flew with him across the sea. When the old raven flew into the middle of the sea, he got tired, began to flap his wings less often, and thought: now I am strong, and he is weak, I will carry him across the sea; and when he becomes great and strong, and I become weak from old age, will he remember my labors and will he carry me from place to place? And the old raven asked the little crow:
When I'm weak and you're strong, will you carry me? Tell me the truth!
Ant and dove
The ant went down to the stream: he wanted to get drunk. A wave swept over him and nearly drowned him. Dove carried a branch; she saw that the ant was drowning, and threw a branch into the stream for him. An ant sat on a branch and escaped. Then the hunter set the net on the dove and wanted to slam it shut. The ant crawled up to the hunter and bit him on the leg; the hunter groaned and dropped the net. The dove fluttered and flew away.
Turtle and eagle
The tortoise asked the eagle to teach her how to fly. The eagle did not advise, because it did not fit her, but she kept asking. The eagle took it in its claws, lifted it up and let it go: it fell on the stones and broke.
Head and tail of a snake
Did the snake tail argue with the snake head about who should go ahead? The head said, "You can't walk in front, you don't have eyes and ears." The tail said: “But I have strength, I move you; if I want to wrap myself around a tree, you won’t move.” The head said: "Let's disperse!"
And the tail broke away from the head and crawled forward. But just now he crawled away from his head, fell into a crack and failed.
Ferret
The ferret went to the coppersmith and began to lick the files. Blood flowed from the tongue, and the ferret rejoiced, licked, - he thought that blood was coming from iron, and ruined the whole tongue.
Thin threads
One person ordered a spinning thin thread. The spinner spun the thin threads, but the man said: "The threads are not good, I need the thinnest threads." The spinner said: “If these are not thin for you, then here are others for you,” and she pointed to an empty place. He said he didn't see. The spinner said: “That’s why you don’t see that they are very thin; I don't see it myself."
The fool was delighted and ordered more such threads for himself, and paid money for these.
Lion and mouse
The lion was sleeping. The mouse ran over his body. He woke up and caught her. The mouse began to ask him to let her in; she said: "If you let me go, and I will do you good." The lion laughed that the mouse promised to do him good, and let it go.
Then the hunters caught the lion and tied it to a tree with a rope. The mouse heard the lion's roar, ran up, gnawed through the rope and said: “Remember, you laughed, you didn’t think that I could do good to you, but now you see, sometimes good comes from a mouse.”
Monkey
One man went into the forest, cut down a tree and began sawing. He lifted the end of the tree to a stump, sat astride and began sawing. Then he hammered a wedge into the sawn place and began to saw further. Sawed, took out the wedge and shifted it even further.
The monkey sat on the tree and watched. When the man went to bed, the monkey sat astride a tree and wanted to do the same; but when she took out the wedge, the tree contracted and pinched her tail. She began to tear and scream. The man woke up, nailed the monkey and tied it with a rope.
Liar
The boy guarded the sheep and, as if seeing a wolf, began to call: “Help, wolf! wolf!" The men come running and see: it's not true. As he did so two and three times, it happened - and a wolf really came running. The boy began to shout: "Here, here, hurry, wolf!" The peasants thought that he was deceiving again, as always, - they did not listen to him. The wolf sees, there is nothing to be afraid of: in the open he cut the whole herd.
Donkey and horse
One man had a donkey and a horse. They walked along the road; the donkey said to the horse: “It’s hard for me, I won’t carry everything, take at least a little from me.” The horse didn't listen. The donkey fell from the strain and died. The owner, as he put everything from the donkey to the horse, and even the donkey skin, the horse howled: “Oh, woe to me, poor, grief to me, unfortunate! I didn’t want to help him a little, now I’m dragging everything and even the skin.
Jackdaw and doves
The jackdaw saw that the pigeons were well fed, so she turned white and flew into the dovecote. The pigeons thought at first that she was the same pigeon, and let her go. But the jackdaw forgot herself and screamed like a jackdaw. Then her pigeons began to peck and drove her away. The jackdaw flew back to her own, but the jackdaws were frightened of her because she was white, and also drove her away.
man and cucumbers
Once a peasant went to the gardener to steal cucumbers. He crawled up to the cucumbers and thought: “Here, let me take away a bag of cucumbers, I’ll sell it: I’ll buy a chicken with this money. A chicken will lay eggs on me, sit on a hen, bring out many chickens. I will feed the chickens, sell, buy a piglet - a pig; the piglet will give me piglets. I will sell piglets, I will buy a filly; the filly will foal my foals. I will feed the foals, I will sell them; I will buy a house and start a garden. I’ll start a garden, plant cucumbers, I won’t let you steal, I’ll keep a strong guard. I’ll hire guards, put them on cucumbers, and then I’ll go to the side and shout: “Hey, you guard stronger!” The peasant was so thoughtful that he completely forgot that he was in someone else’s garden, and shouted at the top of his lungs. The guards heard, jumped out, beat the peasant.
Grandma and chicken
One hen laid an egg every day. The hostess thought that if more feed was given, the hen would double in size. And so she did. And the chicken got fat and stopped laying altogether.
Old grandfather and granddaughter
The grandfather became very old. His legs could not walk, his eyes could not see, his ears could not hear, he had no teeth. And when he ate, it flowed back from his mouth. The son and daughter-in-law stopped putting him at the table, and let him dine at the stove. They took him down once to dine in a cup. He wanted to move it, but he dropped it and broke it. The daughter-in-law began to scold the old man for spoiling everything in the house and breaking cups, and said that now she would give him dinner in the pelvis. The old man just sighed and said nothing. Once a husband and wife sit at home and look - their little son plays planks on the floor - something works out. The father asked: “What are you doing, Misha?” And Misha says: “It’s me, father, I’m doing the pelvis. When you and your mother are old, to feed you from this pelvis.
Husband and wife looked at each other and wept. They felt ashamed that they had offended the old man so much; and from then on they began to put him at the table and look after him.
Division of inheritance
One father had two sons. He said to them: "Die - divide everything in half." When the father died, the sons could not separate without a dispute. They went to sue a neighbor. The neighbor asked them: “How did your father tell you to share?” They said: "He ordered to divide everything in half." The neighbor said: "So tear all the dresses in half, break all the dishes in half and cut all the cattle in half." The brothers listened to their neighbor, and they had nothing left.
Dog, rooster and fox
The dog and the rooster went wandering. In the evening, the rooster fell asleep on a tree, and the dog settled down by the same tree, between the roots. When the time came, the rooster crowed. The fox heard the rooster, ran up and began to ask from below that he come down to her, as if she wanted to pay respect to him because he had a good voice. The rooster said: “We must first wake up the janitor, he is sleeping between the roots. Let him open it, then I'll get off." The fox began to look for the janitor and began to wander. The dog quickly jumped up and strangled the fox.
Horse and groom
The groom stole oats from the horse and sold them, and cleaned the horse every day. The horse says: “If you really want me to be good, don’t sell my oats.”
Lion, bear and fox
The lion and the bear got meat and began to fight for it. The bear did not want to give in, and the lion did not give in. They fought for so long that they both became weak and lay down. The fox saw meat between them, picked it up and ran away.
frog and lion
The lion heard the frog croaking loudly and got scared. He thought that the big beast was crying so loudly. He waited a little, he sees - a frog came out of the swamp. The lion crushed her with his paw and said: “If I don’t look ahead, I won’t be scared.”
monkey and pea
The monkey was carrying two full handfuls of peas. One pea jumped out; the monkey wanted to pick it up and spilled twenty peas. She rushed to pick it up and spilled everything. Then she got angry, scattered all the peas and ran away.
Milch cow
One man had a cow; she gave every day a pot of milk. The man called the guests; and in order to collect more milk for the guests, he did not milk a cow for ten days. He thought that on the tenth day the cow would give him ten jugs of milk.
But the cow burned out all the milk, and she gave less milk than before.
Dragonfly and ants
In autumn, the ants got wet wheat: they dried it. A hungry dragonfly asked them for food. The ants said: “Why didn’t you gather food in the summer?” She said: "There was a lack of time: she sang songs." They laughed and said: "If you played in the summer, dance in the winter."
Hen and golden eggs
One owner had a hen laying golden eggs. He immediately wanted more gold, and he killed the chicken (he thought that there was a large lump of gold inside it); and she was the same as all chickens.
wolf and old woman
The hungry wolf was looking for prey. At the edge of the village, he heard a boy crying in the hut, and the old woman says:
- If you don't stop crying, I'll give you to the wolf.
- Do not cry, child; I will not give you to the wolf; just come wolf, let's kill him.
The wolf thought: apparently, they say one thing here, but they do another; and walked away from the village.
learned son
The son came from the city to his father in the village. Father said: "Today mowing, take a rake and let's go, help me." And the son did not want to work, and he says: “I studied the sciences, but I forgot all the peasant words; what is a rake? As soon as he went around the yard, stepped on a rake; they hit him in the forehead. Then he remembered what a rake was, clutched his forehead and said: “And what a fool threw a rake here!”
man and horse
A man went to the city for oats for a horse. Having just left the village, the horse began to turn back towards the house. The man hit the horse with a whip. She went and thought about the peasant: “Where is he, the fool, driving me; it would be better to go home.” Before reaching the city, the peasant sees that the horse is hard on the mud, turned onto the pavement, and the horse turns away from the pavement. The man hit the whip and jerked the horse: she went to the pavement and thinks: “Why did he turn me onto the pavement, you’ll only break off your hooves. It's tough underfoot."
The man drove up to the shop, bought oats and drove home. When I came home, I gave the horse oats. The horse began to eat and thinks: “What stupid people! They just like to play smart with us, but they have less intelligence than ours. What was he busy about? He went somewhere and drove me. No matter how many times we traveled, we returned home. It would be better for us to stay at home with him from the very beginning; he would sit on the stove, and I would eat oats.”
Burden
Two people walked together along the road and each carried his own burden on his shoulders. One person carried, without taking off all the way, and the other kept stopping, took off the burden and sat down to rest. But every time he had to pick up the burden again and put it on his shoulders again. And the one who took off the burden was more tired than the one who carried it without taking it off.
Two merchants
One poor merchant was leaving on the road and gave all his iron goods for safekeeping to a rich merchant. When he returned, he went to a rich merchant and asked for his iron back.
A wealthy merchant sold all the iron goods and, in order to excuse himself with something, said: "Misfortune happened to your iron."
- Yes, I put it in a grain barn. And there's an abyss of mice. They have exhausted all the iron. I myself saw how they gnawed. If you don't believe me, go take a look.
The poor merchant did not argue. He said: “What to watch. I believe so. I know mice always gnaw on iron. Goodbye". And the poor merchant left.
On the street he saw a boy playing - the son of a rich merchant. The poor merchant caressed the boy, picked him up and took him to him.
The next day, a rich merchant meets a poor one and tells his grief that his son has disappeared, and asks: “Didn’t you see, didn’t you hear?”
The poor merchant says:
- Well, I saw it. As soon as I started leaving you yesterday, I see: a hawk flew right at your boy, grabbed it and carried it away.
The rich merchant got angry and said:
“You should be ashamed to laugh at me. Is it sufficient that the hawk could carry the boy away.
No, I'm not laughing. Well, it's not surprising that the boy's hawk carried away when the mice ate a hundred pounds of iron. Anything can happen.
Then the rich merchant understood and said: “The mice did not eat your iron, but I sold it and will pay you twice.”
- And if so, then the hawk of your son did not carry away, and I will give him to you.
Donkey in a lion's skin
The donkey put on a lion's skin, and everyone thought it was a lion. The people and cattle ran. The wind blew, the skin opened up, and the donkey became visible. The people fled: they beat the donkey.
Hen and swallow
The chicken found snake eggs and began to hatch them. The swallow saw and said:
"That's it, stupid! You will lead them out, and when they grow up, they will offend you first.
Deer and luncheon
Lanchuk (young deer) once said to the deer:
“Father, you are bigger and faster than dogs, and even your horns are huge for protection; Why are you so afraid of dogs?
The deer laughed and said:
“You speak the truth, child. There is only one problem: as soon as I hear a dog barking, I don’t have time to think, and I’m already running. ”
Fox and grapes
The fox saw - ripe bunches of grapes were hanging, and began to fit in, as if to eat them.
She fought for a long time, but could not get it. To drown out her annoyance, she says: "Still green."
Workers and cock
The hostess woke up the workers at night and, as the roosters crowed, put them to work. It seemed hard for the workers, and they decided to kill the rooster so as not to wake the mistress. They killed them, it got worse: the hostess was afraid to oversleep and even earlier began to raise the workers.
Fisherman and fish
The fisherman caught a fish. Rybka says:
“Fisherman, let me into the water; You see, I am shallow: you will not be of much use to me. And if you let me in, let me grow up, then you will catch it - you will benefit more.
Rybak says:
“He will be a fool who waits for a great benefit, but misses a small one.”
Fox and goat
The goat wanted to get drunk: he climbed down the slope to the well, got drunk and became heavy. He began to get back and could not. And he began to cry. The fox saw and said:
"That's it, stupid! If you had so many hairs in your beard, so much intelligence in your head, then before getting off, you would think how to get back.
The dog and its shadow
The dog walked along the plank across the river, and carried meat in its teeth. She saw herself in the water and thought that there was another dog carrying meat, - she threw her meat and rushed to take it from that dog: that meat was not there at all, but her own was carried away by the wave.
And the dog was left behind.
Crane and stork
A man set nets on the cranes because they knocked down his crops. Cranes were caught in the net, and one stork was with the cranes.
The stork says to the man:
“Let me go: I am not a crane, but a stork; we are the most honorable birds; I live at your father's house. And it is clear from the pen that I am not a crane.
The man says:
“I caught with cranes, I will slaughter them with them.”
gardener and sons
The gardener wanted to teach his sons to gardening. When he began to die, he called them and said:
“Behold, children, when I die, you look in the vineyard for what is hidden there.”
The children thought that there was a treasure there, and when their father died, they began to dig and dug up the whole earth. The treasure was not found, and the land in the vineyard was dug up so well that much more fruit began to be born. And they became rich.
Owl and hare
It got dark. Owls began to fly in the forest along the ravine, looking out for prey.
A big hare jumped out into the clearing, began to preen. The old owl looked at the hare and sat down on the bough, and the young owl said: “Why don’t you catch a hare?” The old one says: “Unbearable - the hare is great: you will cling to him, and he will drag you into the thicket.” And the young owl says: “And I will grab it with one paw, and I will quickly hold on to the tree with the other.”
And a young owl set off after a hare, clung to its back with its paw so that all the claws were gone, and prepared the other paw to cling to a tree. As a hare dragged an owl, she clung to a tree with her other paw and thought: “It won’t leave.” The hare rushed and tore the owl. One paw remained on the tree, the other on the hare's back. The next year, the hunter killed this hare and marveled at the fact that he had overgrown owl claws in his back.
wolf and crane
The wolf choked on a bone and could not vomit. He called the crane and said:
“Come on, you crane, you have a long neck, put your head down my throat and pull out the bone: I will reward you.”
The crane stuck its head in, pulled out the bone, and said:
"Give me a reward."
The wolf gritted his teeth and said:
“Or is the reward not enough for you that I didn’t bite off your head when I had it in my teeth?”
duck and moon
The duck swam along the river, looking for fish, and all day did not find one. When night came, she saw a moon in the water, thought it was a fish, and dived to catch the moon. Other ducks saw this and began to laugh at her.
Since then, the duck has become so ashamed and timid that when she saw a fish under water, she no longer caught it and died of hunger.
Bear on a cart
The guide with the bear went up to the tavern, tied the bear to the gate, and went into the tavern to drink. The coachman drove up to the tavern in a troika, twisted the root and also entered the tavern. And in the cart the coachman had rolls. The bear smelled kalachi in the wagon, got rid of it, went up to the wagon, climbed in and began to rummage in the hay. The horses looked back and shuffled away from the tavern along the road. The bear grabbed the beds with its paws and does not know what to do. And the horses, that further, the more flare up. The bear holds on to the beds with its front paws and only turns its head to one side, then to the other. And the horses look back, look back - they roll even faster along the road, downhill, uphill ... Passers-by do not have time to step aside. A trio rolls all covered in soap, a bear sits on a cart, holds on to the beds and looks around. The bear sees that things are bad - the horses will kill him; he began to roar. Even more horses rushed. They galloped, galloped, galloped home to the village. Everyone is watching what is jumping. The horses stumbled into their yard, into the gate. The hostess looks, what is it? The owner rode in the wrong way - apparently drunk. He goes out into the yard, but it’s not the owner from the cart - the bear climbs. The bear jumped off, and into the field, and into the forest.
Wolf in the dust
The wolf wanted to catch a sheep from the flock and went under the wind so that the dust from the flock would be carried on him.
The sheepdog saw him and said:
“In vain you, wolf, walk in the dust, your eyes will ache.”
And the wolf says: “That’s the grief, little dog, that my eyes have been hurting for a long time, but they say that dust from a flock of sheep cures my eyes well.”
Mouse under the barn
There lived one mouse under the barn. There was a hole in the floor of the barn, and bread fell into the hole. The mouse had a good life, but she wanted to show off her life. She gnawed a hole more and called other mice to visit her.
“Come,” he says, “to me for a walk. I will feed you. There will be food for everyone." When she brought the mice, she saw that there was no hole at all. The man noticed a large hole in the floor and patched it up.
Hares and frogs
Once the hares came together and began to cry for their lives: “We die from people, and from dogs, and from eagles, and from other animals. It is better to die once than to live in fear and suffer. Let's drown!"
And the hares jumped to the lake to drown themselves. The frogs heard the hares and splashed into the water. One hare and says:
"Stop guys! Let's wait for the heat; the life of a frog, apparently, is even worse than ours: they are afraid of us too.
Three rolls and one bagel
One man wanted to eat. He bought a kalach and ate; he was still hungry. He bought another roll and ate; he was still hungry. He bought a third roll and ate it, and he was still hungry. Then he bought a bagel, and when he ate one, he was full. Then the man hit himself on the head and said:
“What a fool I am! Why did I eat so many rolls in vain? I should eat one bagel first.”
Two horses
Two horses pulled two carts. The front horse drove well, but the back horse stopped. On the front horse began to shift the load from the rear wagon; when everything was shifted, the rear horse went light and said to the front:
“Suffer and sweat. The more you try, the more you will be tormented.
When they arrived at the inn, the owner said:
“What do I need to feed two horses, and carry on one, it’s better to give plenty of fodder to one, and I’ll slaughter that one: at least I’ll take the skin.”
And so he did.
Equal Inheritance
One merchant had two sons. The eldest was his father's favorite, and his father wanted to give him all his inheritance. The mother felt sorry for the younger son and asked her husband not to announce to the sons until the time they were divided: she wanted to somehow equalize the two sons. The merchant listened to her and did not announce his decision.
Once the mother sat by the window and wept; a stranger came up to the window and asked what she was crying about?
She said: “How can I not cry: both sons are equal to me, and the father wants to give everything to one son, and nothing to the other. I asked my husband not to announce my decision to my sons until I figured out how to help the smaller one. But I don’t have any money of my own, and I don’t know how to help the grief.”
The Stranger said: “It is easy to help your grief; go and announce to your sons that the elder will get all the wealth, and the younger nothing; and they will be equal.
The younger son, as he found out that he would have nothing, went to foreign countries and learned skills and sciences, and the older one lived with his father and did not study anything, because he knew that he would be rich.
When his father died, the elder did not know how to do anything, lived out all his estate, and the younger learned to make money on a foreign side and became rich.
Father and sons
The father ordered his sons to live in harmony; they didn't listen. So he ordered to bring a broom and says:
"Break!"
No matter how much they fought, they could not break. Then the father untied the broom and ordered to break one rod at a time.
They easily broke the bars one by one.
Father and says:
“So are you; if you live in harmony, no one will overcome you; but if you quarrel, and all apart, everyone will easily destroy you.
The best pears
One master sent a servant for pears and said to him: "Buy me the best ones." The servant came to the shop and asked for pears. The merchant gave it to him, but the servant said:
"No, give me the best."
The merchant said:
"Try one, you'll see they're good."
“How will I know,” said the servant, “that they are all good, if I taste only one?”
He bit off a little of each pear and brought them to the master. Then the master drove him away.
Calf on ice
The calf galloped around the corner and learned to make circles and turns. When winter came, the calf was released with other cattle on the ice to a watering place. All the cows carefully approached the trough, and the calf ran onto the ice, bent its tail, put its ears and began to spin. On the first lap, his leg rolled, and he hit his head on the trough.
He roared:
“Unfortunate me! He jumped knee-deep in straw - he didn’t fall, but then he slipped on a smooth one.
The old cow said:
"If you were not a calf, you would know that where it is easier to gallop, it is more difficult to hold on."
Falcon and rooster
The falcon got used to the owner and walked on the hand when he was called; the rooster ran away from the owner and screamed when they approached him. The falcon says to the rooster:
“There is no gratitude in you roosters; servile breed is visible. You, only when you are hungry, go to the owners. Whether we are a wild bird: we have a lot of strength, and we can fly faster than anyone; but we do not run away from people, but we ourselves still go to their hands when they call us. We remember that they feed us."
Rooster and says:
"You don't run away from people because you've never seen a roasted falcon, but we see roasted roosters every now and then."
Jackals and elephant
The jackals ate all the carrion in the forest, and they had nothing to eat. So the old jackal figured out how to feed them. He went to the elephant and said:
“We had a king, but he spoiled himself: he ordered us to do things that cannot be done; we want to choose another king - and our people sent me to ask you to be king. We have a good life: whatever you command, we will do everything and honor you in everything. Let's go to our kingdom." The elephant agreed and followed the jackal. The jackal led him into the swamp. When the elephant is stuck, the jackal says:
"Now give orders: whatever you say, we'll do it."
The elephant said:
"I order you to get me out of here."
The jackal laughed and said: "Grab my tail with your trunk - I'll pull it out now."
Elephant says:
"Can you pull me out with your tail?" And the jackal says: “So why do you order what cannot be done? We also drove the first king away because he ordered what should not be done.
When the elephant died in the swamp, the jackals came and ate it.
Heron, fish and cancer
The heron lived by the pond and grew old; she didn't have the strength to fish. She began to invent how she could live by cunning. She says to the fish: “And you, fish, don’t know that trouble is going to happen to you: I heard from people - they want to lower the pond and catch you all. I know, there is a good pond behind the mountain. I would help, but I became old: it’s hard to fly. The fish began to ask the heron to help.
Heron and says:
“Perhaps I’ll try for you, I’ll transfer you, but suddenly I can’t, but one by one.”
Here the fish are happy; everyone asks: “Take me, take me!”
And the heron began to carry them: he would take them, take them out into the field, and eat them. And she ate so many fish.
An old crayfish lived in a pond. As the heron began to take out the fish, he realized the matter and said:
"Well, now, heron, take me to the housewarming party."
The heron took the crayfish and carried it. As she flew out onto the field, she wanted to throw off cancer. But the crayfish saw fish bones in the field, squeezed the heron by the neck with tongs and strangled it, and crawled back to the pond and told the fish.
Hedgehog and hare
I met a hare hedgehog and says:
“You should be good to everyone, hedgehog, only your legs are crooked, they are braided.”
The hedgehog got angry and said:
“What are you laughing at? my crooked legs run faster than your straight ones. Let me just go home, and then let's run a race!
The hedgehog went home and said to his wife: “I argued with the hare: we want to run a race!”
Yezhov's wife and says: “You must have gone crazy! Where do you run with a hare? His legs are fast, and yours are crooked and blunt.”
And the hedgehog says: “He has fast legs, and I have a fast mind. Just do what I say. Let's go to the field."
So they came to a plowed field to a hare; hedgehog and says to his wife:
“Hide yourself at this end of the furrow, and the hare and I will run from the other end; when he runs away, I will come back; but when he comes running to your end, you come out and say: but I have been waiting for a long time. He won't recognize you from me - he'll think it's me."
Yezhov's wife hid in a furrow, and the hedgehog and the hare ran from the other end.
As the hare fled, the hedgehog came back and hid in the furrow. The hare galloped to the other end of the furrow: look! - and Yezhov's wife is already sitting there. She saw a hare and said to him: “And I have been waiting for a long time!”
The hare did not recognize Yezhov's wife from the hedgehog and thinks: “What a miracle! How did he overtake me?
“Well,” he says, “let's run again!”
The hare started back, ran to the other end: look! - and the hedgehog is already there, and he says: “Hey, brother, you are only now, and I have been here for a long time.”
“What a miracle! - thinks the hare, - how fast I galloped, and all he overtook me. Well, let’s run again, now you won’t overtake. ”
"Let's run!"
The hare galloped as fast as he could: look! - the hedgehog sits in front and waits.
So, the hare until then jumped from end to end, that he was exhausted.
The hare submitted and said that he would never argue ahead.
Water and pearl
One man was riding a boat and dropped a precious pearl into the sea. The man returned to the shore, took a bucket and began to draw water and pour it onto the ground. He scooped and poured for three days tirelessly.
On the fourth day, a merman came out of the sea and asked:
"Why are you scooping?"
Man says:
“I scoop then that I dropped the pearl.”
The waterman asked:
"Are you going to stop soon?"
Man says:
“When I dry up the sea, then I will stop.”
Then the merman returned to the sea, brought the same pearl and gave it to the man.
The king and the falcon
One king, on a hunt, let his beloved falcon go after a hare and galloped.
The falcon caught the hare. The king took away the hare and began to look for water, where to drink. In the mound the king found water. Only she dripped drop by drop. So the king took the bowl from the saddle and put it under the water. Water flowed drop by drop, and when the cup was full, the king raised it to his mouth and wanted to drink. Suddenly the falcon started on the king's hand, beat its wings and splashed out water. The king raised the cup again. He waited for a long time until it was level with the edges, and again, when he began to raise it to his mouth, the falcon fluttered and spilled water.
When for the third time the king took a full cup and began to raise it to his lips, the falcon poured it out again. The king got angry and, with all his might, hit the falcon on a stone, and killed him. Then the king's servants drove up, and one of them ran up to the spring to find more water and more likely to get a full cup. Only the servant did not bring water; he returned with an empty cup and said: “That water cannot be drunk: there is a snake in the spring, and she released her poison into the water. Good thing the falcon spilled the water. If you had drunk this water, you would have died."
The king said: "Badly I repaid the falcon: he saved my life, and I killed him."
Fox
The fox fell into a trap, tore off its tail and left. And she began to think of ways to cover up her shame. She called the foxes and began to persuade them to cut off their tails. “The tail,” he says, “is not at all useful, it’s just in vain that we carry an extra burden with us.” One fox says: “Oh, you wouldn’t say this if you weren’t short-haired!”
The bobcat fox was silent and left.
Wild and tame donkey
A wild donkey saw a tame donkey, went up to him and began to praise his life: like his body, he is smooth and what sweet food he has. Then, as they loaded a tame donkey, and as the driver began to drive him with a club from behind, the wild donkey said: “No, brother, I don’t envy now - I see that your life is getting you juice.”
Hare and hound dog
The hare once said to the hound, “Why are you barking when you are chasing us? You would rather catch us if you ran silently. And with barking, you only catch up with the hunter: he can hear where we are running, and he runs towards us with a gun, kills us and gives you nothing.
The dog said: “I don’t bark for this, but I bark only because when I hear your smell, I get angry and rejoice that I will catch you right now; and I don’t know why myself, but I can’t stop barking.”
Deer
The deer went to the river to get drunk, saw himself in the water and began to rejoice at his horns that they were large and forked, and looked at his legs and said: “Only my legs are bad and thin.” Suddenly a lion jumps out and throws himself at a deer. The deer started galloping across the open field. He was leaving, but as he came into the forest, his horns got entangled in the branches, and the lion grabbed him. When it came to the deer to die, he said: “So stupid I am! About whom he thought that they were bad and liquid, they saved him, and for whom he rejoiced, he disappeared from those.
dog and wolf
The dog fell asleep outside. A hungry wolf came running and wanted to eat her. The dog says: “Wolf! wait for me to eat - now I'm bony, thin. But, give me time, the hosts will play a wedding, then I will have plenty of food, I will get fat, - it’s better to eat me then. The wolf believed and left. Here he comes another time and sees - the dog is lying on the roof. The wolf says: “Well, was there a wedding?” And the dog says: "Here's the thing, wolf: if another time you find me sleepy in front of the yard, do not wait any longer for the wedding."
Blind man and milk
One blind man asked a sighted man: “What color is milk?”
The sighted one said: "The color of milk is the same as white paper."
The blind man asked: “Does this color rustle under your hands just like paper?”
The sighted man said: "No, he is white, like white flour."
The blind man asked: “What, is it as soft and free-flowing as flour?”
The sighted man said: "No, he's just as white as a white hare."
The blind man asked: “Well, is he fluffy and soft like a hare?”
The sighted one said: "No, the white color is exactly like snow."
The blind man asked: "Well, is it as cold as snow?"
And no matter how many examples the sighted person spoke, the blind could not understand what the white color of milk is.
wolf and bow
A hunter with a bow and arrow went hunting, killed a goat, put it on his shoulders and carried it. On the way he saw a boar. The hunter dropped the goat, shot at the boar and wounded him. The wild boar rushed at the hunter, spored him to death, and he himself immediately died. The wolf smelled blood and came to the place where the goat, the boar, the man and his bow lay. The wolf was delighted and thought: “Now I will be full for a long time; only I will not eat everything at once, but I will eat little by little so that nothing is lost: first I will eat what is tougher, and then I will eat what is softer and sweeter.
The wolf sniffed the goat, the boar and the man and said: “This is a soft dish, I will eat it later, but first let me eat these veins on the onion.” And he began to gnaw the veins on the bow. When he bit the string, the bow jumped and hit the wolf on the belly. The wolf died immediately, and the other wolves ate the man, the goat, the boar, and the wolf.
mosquito and lion
The mosquito flew to the lion and said: “Do you think you have more strength than mine? No matter how! What is your strength? That you scratch with your claws and gnaw with your teeth, this is how women fight with peasants. I am stronger than you; you want to go to war!" And the mosquito trumpeted and began to bite the lion's bare cheeks and nose. The lion began to beat his face with his paws and tear with his claws; tore his whole face into blood and exhausted himself.
The mosquito trumpeted with joy and flew away. Then he got tangled in the web to the spider, and the spider began to suck him. The mosquito says: “I defeated a strong beast, a lion, but I’m dying from a crappy spider.”
Horse and owners
The gardener had a horse. She had a lot of work, but little food. And she began to pray to God to move her to another owner. And so it happened. The gardener sold the horse to the potter. The horse was glad, but the potter had even more work than before. And again the horse began to complain about its fate and pray to go to a better owner. And that came true. The potter sold the horse to the tanner. That's how the horse saw horse skins in the tannery, and she howled: “Oh, woe to me, poor! It would be better to stay with the former owners: now, apparently, they sold me not for work, but for the skin.
old man and death
The old man chopped wood once and carried it. Carry was far away; he was exhausted, folded the bundle and said: “Oh, if only death would come!” Death came and said: “Here I am, what do you want?” The old man was frightened and said: “I need to pick up the bundle.”
Lion and fox
The lion, from old age, could no longer catch animals and decided to live by cunning: he went into the cave, lay down and pretended to be sick. Animals began to visit him, and he ate those who entered his cave. The fox realized the matter, stood at the entrance to the cave and said: “What, lion, how can you?”
The lion says: “Bad. Why don't you come in?" And the fox says: “That’s why I don’t go in, because I see in the footsteps - there are many entrances, but there are no exits.”
Deer and vineyard
The deer hid from the hunters in the vineyard. When the hunters passed him, the deer began to eat grape leaves.
The hunters have noticed that the leaves are moving, and they think: “Isn’t there an animal here under the leaves?” - They shot and wounded a deer.
The deer and says, dying: "It serves me right because I wanted to eat the leaves, the very ones that saved me."
Galchonok
The hermit once saw a falcon in the forest. The falcon brought a piece of meat to the nest, tore the meat into small pieces and began to feed the jackdaw.
The hermit was surprised how the falcon feeds the jackdaw like that, and thought: “The little jackdaw, and that one will not disappear from God, and God taught this falcon to feed someone else's orphan. It can be seen that God feeds all creatures, and we all think about ourselves. I will stop taking care of myself, I will not store food for myself. God does not leave all creatures, and he will not leave me.”
And so he did: he sat down in the forest and did not get up from his place, but only prayed to God. For three days and three nights he remained without food or drink. On the third day the hermit became so weak that he could no longer raise his arms. He fell asleep from weakness. And he dreamed of an old man. The elder seemed to come up to him and say: “Why don’t you save food for yourself? You think to please God, but you sin. God arranged the world in such a way that each creature would get what it needs. God told the falcon to feed the jackdaw, because the jackdaw would be lost without the falcon; and you can work on your own. You want to test God, and that's a sin. Wake up and keep working."
The hermit woke up and began to live as before.
Ax and saw
Two men went into the forest behind a tree. One had an ax and the other had a saw. So they chose a tree and began to argue. One says - we need to cut down the tree, and the other says - we need to cut it down.
The third man says: “I will now reconcile you: if the ax is sharp, then it is better to chop, and if you drank even sharper, then it is better to saw.” He took an ax and started cutting wood. But the ax was so blunt that it was impossible for them to cut.
He took a saw: the saw was bad and did not cut at all. Then he said: “You wait to argue - the ax does not cut, and the saw does not cut. You first sharpen the ax and straighten the saw, and then argue.” But those peasants became even more angry with each other because one had an unsharpened ax, while the other had a dull saw, and they began to fight.
cat and mice
There are many mice in one house. The cat climbed into this house and began to catch mice. The mice saw that things were bad, and they said: “Come on, mice, let’s not come down from the ceiling anymore, but the cat can’t get here!” As the mice stopped going down, the cat conceived how to outwit them. He clung to the ceiling with one paw, hung down and pretended to be dead. One mouse looked out at him, and said: “No, brother! even if you become a sack, I won’t come up.”
Quail and quail
The peasants mowed the meadows, and in the meadow, under a tussock, there was a quail's nest.
A quail with food flew to the nest and saw that everything around was cut down. She says to the quails: “Well, children, trouble has come! Now be silent and do not move, otherwise you will be lost; I will transfer you in the evening." And the quails rejoiced that it became brighter in the meadow, and said: “Mother is old, that’s why she doesn’t want us to have fun,” and they began to squeak and whistle.
The guys brought the peasants to the mowing for dinner; heard the quail and tore their heads.
Birds and nets
The hunter set up nets by the lake and covered many birds. The birds were big, they picked up the net and flew away with it. The hunter ran after the birds. The peasant saw that the hunter was running and said: “Where are you running to? Is it possible to catch up with a bird on foot? The hunter said: "If there was only one bird, I would not have caught up, but now I will catch up."
And so it happened. As evening came, the birds pulled for the night, each in its own direction: one to the forest, the other to the swamp, the third to the field; and all with the net fell to the ground, and the hunter took them.
Dogs and the cook
The cook was preparing dinner; the dogs lay at the kitchen door. The cook killed the calf and threw the intestines into the yard. The dogs picked it up, ate it and said: "The cook is good: he cooks well."
After a while the cook began to peel the peas, turnips and onions and threw away the cuttings. The dogs rushed, turned their noses away and said: "Our cook has gone bad - he used to cook well, but now he is no good."
But the cook did not listen to the dogs, but cooked dinner in his own way. Lunch was eaten and praised by the owners, not the dogs.
wolf and goat
The wolf sees - the goat is grazing on a stone mountain, and it is impossible for him to get close to her; he said to her: “You should go down: here the place is more even, and the grass for food is much sweeter for you.”
And the goat says: “That’s not why you, wolf, are calling me down - you are not about mine, but about your fodder.”
Reeds and olive
The olive and the reeds argued about who was stronger and stronger. The olive tree laughed at the reeds because it bends from every wind. Kamysh was silent. A storm came: the reeds staggered, dangled, bent to the ground - survived. The olive tree braced its branches against the wind and broke.
Two comrades
Two comrades were walking through the forest, and a bear jumped out at them. One rushed to run, climbed a tree and hid, while the other remained on the road. He had nothing to do - he fell to the ground and pretended to be dead.
The bear came up to him and began to sniff: he stopped breathing.
The bear sniffed his face, thought he was dead, and walked away.
When the bear left, he climbed down from the tree and laughs: “Well,” he says, “did the bear speak in your ear?”
“And he told me that those are bad people who run away from their comrades in danger.”
Oak and hazel
An old oak tree dropped an acorn under a hazel bush. The hazel tree said to the oak: “Is there not enough space under your branches? You would drop your acorns in a clean place. Here I myself feel cramped for my shoots, and I myself do not throw my nuts on the ground, but give them to people.
“I live two hundred years,” said the oak, “and the oak from this acorn will live the same.”
Then the hazel tree got angry and said: “So I will drown your oak tree, and it will not live even three days.” Oak did not answer, but ordered his son to grow from an acorn.
The acorn got wet, burst and clung to the ground with the hook of a sprout, and let another sprout go up.
Hazel jammed it and did not give the sun. But the oak stretched upward and became stronger in the shade of the hazel. A hundred years have passed. The hazel tree withered long ago, and the oak from the acorn rose to the sky and spread the tent on all sides.
wolf and lamb
The wolf saw the lamb drinking by the river.
The wolf wanted to eat the lamb, and he began to find fault with him. “You,” he says, “are muddying the water and won’t let me drink.”
The lamb says: “Oh, wolf, how can I muddy the water for you? After all, I stand lower in the water, and even then I drink with the tips of my lips. And the wolf says: “Well, why did you scold my father last summer?” The lamb says: “Yes, I am a wolf, and I was not born last summer.” The wolf got angry and said: “You can’t talk over. So I'm on an empty stomach, for that I'll eat you.
Lion, wolf and fox
An old sick lion lay in a cave. All the animals came to visit the king, only the fox did not come. Here the wolf was delighted with the opportunity and began to slander the fox before the lion.
“She,” she says, “doesn’t count you in anything, she never came to visit the king.”
On these words, and run the fox. She heard the wolf say, and she thinks: "Wait a minute, wolf, I'll take you out."
Here the lion roared at the fox, and she said: “They didn’t order to execute, they told me to say a word. I didn't go because I didn't have time. And I had no time because I ran all over the world, asking doctors for medicine for you. Only now I found it, so I came running.
Leo and says:
- What medicine?
- And here's the one: if you skin a live wolf and put on its warm skin ...
As the lion stretched the wolf, the fox laughed and said:
- That's right, brother; gentlemen, not for evil, but for good, it is necessary to direct.
Fox's tail
The man caught the fox and asked her, “Who taught foxes to deceive dogs with their tails?” The fox asked: “How to cheat? We do not deceive the dogs, but simply run from them with all our strength. The man said, “No, you are deceiving with your tail. When dogs catch up with you and want to grab you, you turn your tail to one side; the dog turns sharply behind the tail, and then you run in the opposite direction. The fox laughed and said, “We are not doing this to deceive the dogs; but we do this in order to turn: when the dog catches up with us and we see that we cannot go straight, we turn to the side; and in order to suddenly turn in one direction, we need to wave our tail in the other, just as you do with your hands when you want to turn on the run. This is not our invention: it was invented by God himself when he created us, so that the dogs could not catch all the foxes.”
king and elephants
One Indian king ordered all the blind to be gathered, and when they arrived, he ordered them to show their elephants. The blind men went to the stable and began to feel the elephants. One felt the leg, the other the tail, the third the spoke, the fourth the belly, the fifth the back, the sixth the ears, the seventh the fangs, the eighth the trunk. Then the king called the blind to him and asked: what are my elephants? One blind man said: "Your elephants are like pillars"; this blind man felt his legs. Another blind man said: "They look like brooms"; this one felt the tail. The third said: "They look like branches"; this one felt his tongue. The one who felt the belly said, "Elephants are like a heap of earth." The one who felt the sides said: "They are like a wall"; the one who felt the back said: "They look like a mountain"; the one who felt the ears said: "They look like handkerchiefs"; the one who felt the head said: "They look like a stupa"; the one who felt the fangs said: "They look like horns"; the one who felt the trunk said that "they are like a thick rope."
And all the blind men began to argue and quarrel.
Mother hen and chicks
The mother hen brought out the chickens and did not know how to save them. She said to them: “Climb back into the shell; when you are in the shell, I will sit on you, as I sat before, and save you. The chickens obeyed, climbed into the shell, but could not get into it in any way and only crushed their wings. Then one chicken said to his mother: "If we always stay in the shell, you would be better off not bringing us out."
Lion, donkey and fox
The lion, the donkey and the fox went out to prey. They caught many animals, and the lion ordered the ass. The donkey divided equally into three parts and says: “Well, now take it!” The lion got angry, ate the donkey and told the fox to redistribute it. The fox collected everything in one heap, and left a little for herself. The lion looked and said: “Well, smart girl! Who taught you to share so well?”
She says: “What happened to the donkey?”
Dergach and his female
Tergach built a nest in the meadow late, and during the mowing the female was still sitting on her eggs. Early in the morning the peasants came to the meadow, took off their caftans, sharpened their braids, and followed each other. cut the grass with another and lay it in rows. Twitch flew out to see what the mowers were doing. When he saw that one peasant waved his scythe and cut the snake in half, he was delighted, flew to the derga and said: “Do not be afraid of the peasants; they came to cut snakes; We haven't been living with them for a long time." And the turd woman said: “The men cut the grass, and with the grass they cut everything that comes across: a snake, and a turf nest, and a turf head. My heart does not feel good; but I can neither carry away the eggs, nor fly away from the nest, so as not to cool them.
When the scythes reached the turf nest, one peasant waved his scythe and cut off the scythe's head, and put the eggs in his bosom and gave the children to play.
Raven and crows
The raven built his nest on the island, and when the crows hatched, he began to carry them from the island to the ground. First, he took one crow in his claws and flew with him across the sea. When the old raven flew into the middle of the sea, he got tired, began to flap his wings less often, and thought: now I am strong, and he is weak, I will carry him across the sea; and when he becomes great and strong, and I become weak from old age, will he remember my labors and will he carry me from place to place? And the old raven asked the crow: “When I am weak and you are strong, will you carry me? Tell me the truth!" The crow was afraid that his father would throw him into the sea, and said: "I will." But the old raven did not believe his son and released the crow from its claws. The crow, like a lump, fell down and drowned in the sea. The old raven flew alone across the sea back to his island. Then the old raven took another crow and also carried him across the sea. Again he got tired in the middle of the sea and asked his son if he would carry him from place to place in his old age. The son was afraid that his father would not leave him, and said: "I will."
The father did not believe this son either and threw him into the sea. When the old raven flew back to his nest, he had one crow left. He took the last son and flew with him across the sea. When he flew out into the middle of the sea and became tired, he asked: “Will you, in my old age, feed me and carry me from place to place?” Little Crow said, "No, I won't." - "From what?" the father asked. “When you are old and I am big, I will have my own nest and my crows, and I will feed and carry my children.” Then the old raven thought: "He told the truth, for that I will work hard and carry him across the sea." And the old raven did not release the crow, but from last strength flapped his wings and carried him to the ground so that he would make a nest for himself and bring out the children.
Why is evil in the world
The hermit lived in the forest, and the animals were not afraid of him. He and the animals spoke to each other and understood each other.
Once a hermit lay down under a tree, and a raven, a dove, a deer and a snake gathered to spend the night at the same place. The animals began to argue why evil happens in the world.
The raven said: “Evil in the world is all from hunger. When you sing to your heart's content, you sit on your bough, you croak - everything is fun, good, you rejoice at everything; but just starve for a day or two, and everything will become so disgusting that you would not even look at the light of day. And everything pulls you somewhere, you fly from place to place, and you have no rest. And you envy the meat, it will become even more nauseating, and you will rush indiscriminately. Another time they throw sticks and stones at you, and wolves and dogs grab you, but you still do not lag behind. And how many times our brother disappears because of hunger. All evil comes from hunger.
The dove said: “But for me, evil is not from hunger, but all evil is from love. If we lived alone, we would have little grief. One head is not poor, but poor, so alone. And then we always live in pairs. And you will love your friend so much that you have no peace - you all think about her: is she full, is she warm? And as soon as your friend flies somewhere away from you, then you will completely disappear - you all think: no matter how the hawk is carried away or people are caught; and you yourself will fly to look for her, and you will fly into trouble - either under a hawk, or into a snare. And if a friend disappears, then nothing is nice to yourself. Do not eat, do not drink, and only look and cry. How many of us are missing out on this! All evil is not from hunger, but from love.
The snake said: “No, evil is not from hunger and not from love, but evil from anger. If we lived peacefully, if we didn’t get angry, everything would be fine for us. And when something happens that is not for you, you get angry - then nothing is nice. You only think about how to vent your evil on someone. Here you don’t remember yourself, you just hiss and crawl, looking for someone to bite. You no longer feel sorry for anyone - until you are angry until you destroy yourself. All evil in the world comes from anger."
The deer said: “No, not from anger, and not from love, and not from hunger, all evil in the world, but evil from fear. If you could not be afraid, everything would be fine. Our legs are frisky, we have a lot of strength. You will fight off a small beast with horns, you will leave a big one. Yes, you can't be afraid. Just crunch a branch in the forest, rustle the leaves, and you will shake all over with fear, your heart will beat, as if it wants to jump out, and you fly with all your heart. Another time a hare will run, a bird will tremble, or a dry branch will break off, and you think - an animal, and you will run into an animal. If you run away from a dog, you will run into a man. You often get frightened and run away, you yourself don’t know where, and you will break off with a swing down the steep slope and kill yourself. And you sleep with one eye, you listen and you are afraid. There is no rest. All evil comes from fear.
Then the hermit said:
- Not from hunger, not from love, not from anger, not from fear, all our torments, but from our body all the evil in the world. From him and hunger, and love, and anger, and fear.
Man and water
The peasant dropped the ax into the river; with grief sat on the shore and began to cry.
The waterman heard, took pity on the peasant, brought him a golden ax from the river and said: “Is this your ax?”
The man says: "No, not mine."
The merman brought out another, silver axe.
The man again says: "Not my axe."
Then the merman brought out a real axe.
The man says: "This is my axe."
The merman gave the peasant all three axes for his truth.
At home, the peasant showed the axes to his comrades and told what had happened to him.
Here is one peasant who decided to do the same: he went to the river, deliberately threw his ax into the water, sat down on the bank and began to cry.
The waterman took out a golden ax and asked: “Is this your ax?”
The man was delighted and shouted: “Mine, mine!”
The merman did not give him a golden ax and did not give his own back - for his untruth.
Raven and fox
The raven got a piece of meat and sat on a tree. The fox wanted meat, she came up and said:
- Oh, raven, how I look at you - according to your height and beauty, if only you were a king! And, of course, I would be king if you had a voice.
The raven opened its mouth and yelled at the top of its lungs. The meat has fallen. The fox picked it up and said:
- Ah, raven, if you still had a mind, you would be a king.
One man wanted to look at the animals: he grabbed a dog in the street and brought it to the menagerie. They let him watch, but they took the little dog and threw it into a cage to be eaten by a lion. Read...
One king was a hunter for good dresses. He thought of nothing else, only how he could dress better.
