I would have a good time and a good lady. After the punishment, the little woman died, and she married another, good one, like the first; ale dacha hell of the first wife for yayo haroshchaya. One day the lady of the court came to the chandelier and asked: “Lustro, chandelier! How good am I?” - “You’re good, ale your paserbitsa3 yashche bad!” - said 4 chandelier. That Kruleva showed the lackey the weight of the caretaker on the patsyr5, there I will forget and bring my heart to the plates. The footman immediately brought the king to the patsyr, told her everything that the king said, and the name of the king killed the dog, took out the hearts and the legs on the plate, gave it to the king; and I will tell you that I went wherever I wanted.

1 (The best.)

2 (To the mirror.)

3 (Stepdaughter.)

4 (Answered.)

5 (Walk.)

6 (Instead of.)

Kruleva's lord was glad that she had taken care of her paserbitsa, who was so cruel to herself; and the princess, parting from the footman, went to where her eyes were wandering. Idze yana dak idze - there’s a palace already near the forest, and there’s nothing wrong with everything. Yana hadzila and then the palaces, hadzila, there are already twelve men dancing; and these men were twelve brothers of the Karalevich, who lived in the summer palaces. Hadzili yanya in all sorts of ways, even in one of them we even knew the lady. Look at me, every time I look at her; If not the Muggles pagadzitsa2, then they recognized me as their sister and respected the nobles.

1 (Castle.)

2 (Agree.)

Taya Kruleva was so sad1 that she was not a paserbitsy; The next time, darling, the chandelier fell and asked: “Lustro, chandelier! How good am I?” - “You are good, and your paserbitsa is even worse - among the twelve brothers of Karelevich.” Kruleva showed her gratitude to her grandmother-enchantress and, having given her many pennies, said: “I hope you don’t let my guardian be gone for three days!” - "Of good!" - said the enchantress, moved to the edge3 and walked away. I went to the palace where the kingdom lived, and even there I didn’t find anyone else - only the hell of the kingdom, sitting face down. Kraleina, the fucking woman, immediately said that I was a success and began to inquire: is she atkul? “I go on a pilgrimage every day in order to make some money; I craft and wash and sell needles, hairpins, peppers and other goods.” - “Well, packages!” - said the queen. This woman began to show peppers, and the king fell, and began to cry in pain - as soon as the woman died, and she ruled. She fingered the edge of that pepper for a long time, and then put it on her finger. As soon as I was happy, I became unlivable.

1 (Sure.)

2 (Out of curiosity.)

3 (Dressed up as a merchant.)

4 (The princess liked one.)

The brothers yelped from the bathroom1 and immediately ran away from their sister. The entrance is very different - it’s almost as if it’s not chewing. The brothers cried and cried, and then they began to figure out how to settle another adzene3; As soon as they started to figure it out, they already knew the first scene; As soon as I knew the perscenak, the queen azhyla and, ustavshi, said: “I slept so deliciously!” “You weren’t sleeping, but you weren’t alive; you don’t need acharava,” the brothers said. "Geta, music4, woman, who I bought a persyonak enchanted me." The brothers, leaving the next day, shouted that the palace should never be allowed to pass.

1 (From the hunt.)

2 (To greet.)

3 (Wear a different dress.)

4 (It should probably be.)

Kruleva's friend walked and tortured the chandelier, and it just said that “you are good, and your lady friend is even worse.” The ruler immediately sent a message to this enchantress and told her to finally leave the world as a guardian. This woman moved behind the barn1 and went to the palace where the princess lived. The bastard fell akno kraleeny and became gavarits patsyary2. Kraleina, pachushy, said that she had taken out three pennies and sent the woman to justice. The footman who carried the pennies to the woman would be damned and fall into the hairpin that the woman gave. That lackey of the same day, crushed, never knew the hairpin, panes ya and kraleeny and adda. Kraleina thought that this hairpin was me, she knew - she was lying on the galava. As soon as I settled down, I became unlivable. Brothers, who arrived, walked and packed it, and there they found it dead; They started to sort things out, and the king didn’t move. They mined a mine for mine4, got stuck in some forest and hung there on another lake.

1 (A beggar woman.)

2 (The Lord's Prayer, and prayer in general.)

3 (Agreed.)

4 (Silver coffin.)

Kruleva, cleaning up, asked from the chandelier: what is good? And the chandelier said that “you are the most beautiful in the whole world.” Kruleva was glad that there was no one who would be good for me. One day in the forest where the throne of the kingdom hung, some kings were scorching in the distance. The king's dogs, as if they were chasing hares, even as far as the throne where the king hung. Kralevich palatseў horse-drawn for the dogs. The dogs threw the hare and began to eat2 on the village3 where the trumpet was hanging. Kralevich, who attacked the dogs for throwing a hare, beat them with their fingers; Ale yak fall "ehau, dah blask at the eye of the pit of the udary. He glanced at the fire and the fucking srebny trune; he infected people and said that trune to know, settle the cart and knitting dado, and there shepherd yago packs - so if no one The people of the king immediately took the trumpet, together with the king's house and the pastavili of the pack.

1 (On horseback.)

2 (Bark.)

3 (Up.)

4 (Embittered.)

5 (On the cart.)

The next day, the king himself arrived home, immediately after his packing, the hellish Truna and there the great noble lady, and she got so stuck that she didn’t go anywhere. The Radzitsy3 princes themselves did not know that they were slaves, that such sons were tedious4 and did not let anyone go to their pack. One day he sat down with his friends, and after he left, he learned the top of the line and began to choose the heels from the head and stick in his surdut5; And as soon as I took out one hairpin, the panna came out. She started to take her away and started to find out what happened to her? Yana told the prince about everything and also fell in love with him. We sat down for the rest of our day and wished they were blessed. Those who went there, they told everyone, and the nobles were glad that their son was happy, and they were praised. Nyadzel6 was growing up, and daddy and daddy were traveling with him. When my father arrived, the dacha told everyone: how my mother wanted to live in the world, how she was a twelve-royal princess, and after that, how I knew a royal princess and how I repented. Father hated to put his little wife on the iron harrows, but the dacha wouldn’t allow it. The next day there would be a ball, at which the royal twelve were also present; And I was there, there was honey, there was a lot of noise in Baradze, but there was no more.

1 (Opened it.)

2 (Fell in love.)

3 (Parents.)

4 (Boring, sad.)

5 (Frock coat, camisole.)

6 (Sunday.)

7 (Wedding.)

Fairy tale version

In a certain kingdom, in a certain state, there lived a widower merchant; he had a son, a daughter, and a brother... At one time, this merchant is going to go to foreign lands, buy various goods, takes his son with him, and leaves his daughter at home; He calls his brother and says to him: “I entrust to you, dear brother, my entire house and household, and I earnestly ask: look after my daughter more closely, teach her to read and write, and do not allow her to be spoiled!” After that, the merchant said goodbye to his brother and daughter and set off on his journey. And the merchant’s daughter was already old and of such indescribable beauty that even if you walked around the world, you wouldn’t find another like her! An unclean thought came into his uncle’s head, it gave him no rest day or night, and he began to pester the red maiden. “Either,” he says, “commit a sin to me, or you will not live in the world; I myself will perish and kill you!”

Once a girl went to the bathhouse, her uncle followed her - just through the door, she grabbed a basin full of boiling water and doused him from head to toe. He lay there for three weeks and barely recovered; terrible hatred gnawed at his heart, and he began to think: how to laugh off this ridicule? I thought and thought, and finally wrote a letter to my brother: your daughter is doing bad things, wandering around other people’s yards, doesn’t spend the night at home and doesn’t listen to me. The merchant received this letter, read it and became very angry; says to his son: “Your sister has disgraced the whole house! I don’t want to have mercy on her: go this minute ago, chop the scoundrel into small pieces and bring her heart on this knife. Let good people not laugh at our kind-tribe!”

The son took a sharp knife and went home; I arrived in my hometown on the sly, without telling anyone, and began to scout around: how does such and such a merchant’s daughter live? Everyone praises her with one voice - they cannot boast enough: she is quiet, and modest, and knows God, and good people obeys. Having found out everything, he went to his sister; she was delighted, rushed to meet him, hugs him, kisses him: “Dear brother! How did the Lord bring you? What about our dear father?” - “Oh, dear sister, don’t rush to rejoice. My arrival is not good: my father sent me, ordered your white body to be chopped into small pieces, your heart to be taken out and delivered to him on this knife.”

My sister started crying. “My God,” he says, “why such disfavor?” - “But for what!” - the brother answered and told her about his uncle’s letter. “Oh, brother, I’m not guilty of anything!” The merchant’s son listened to how and what happened and said: “Don’t cry, sister! I myself know that you are not guilty, and even though the priest did not order you to accept any excuses, I still don’t want to execute you. It’s better for you to get ready and go.” from your father's house, wherever you look; God will not leave you!" The merchant's daughter did not think long, got ready for the journey, said goodbye to her brother and went where - she herself does not know. And her brother killed a yard dog, took out the heart, put it on a sharp knife and took it to his father. Gives it to him dog's heart: “So and so,” he says, “on your parental orders, I executed my sister.” - “Come on! The dog is dead!” - answered the father.

How long or how short did the red maiden wander around white light, finally entered a dense, dense forest: from behind the tall trees the sky was barely visible. She began to walk through this forest and accidentally came out into a wide clearing; in this clearing there is a white stone palace, around the palace there is an iron lattice. “Dayka,” the girl thinks, “I’ll go into this palace, not after all.” evil people, maybe it won’t be a bad thing!” She entered the chambers - there was not a human soul in the chambers; she was about to turn back - suddenly two powerful heroes galloped into the courtyard, entered the palace, saw the girl and said: “Hello, beauty!” - “Hello , honest knights!" - “Here, brother,” said one hero to another, “you and I were grieving that there was no one to manage us; and God sent us a sister." The heroes left the merchant's daughter to live with them, called her their own sister, gave her the keys and made her the mistress of the whole house; then they took out sharp sabers, pointed them at each other's chests and made the following agreement: "If any of us dares encroach on his sister, then chop him up without mercy with this very saber.”

Here is a red maiden living with two heroes; and her father bought overseas goods, returned home and a little later married another wife. This merchant's wife was of indescribable beauty and had a magic mirror; look in the mirror - you will immediately find out where everything is being done. One day the heroes gathered to go hunting and told their sister: “Be careful, don’t let anyone in until we arrive!” They said goodbye to her and left. At this very time, the merchant's wife looked into the mirror, admired her beauty and said: “There is no one more beautiful than me in the world!” And the mirror answered: “You are beautiful - no doubt about it! And you have a stepdaughter, she lives with two heroes in a dense forest - she is even more beautiful!”

The stepmother did not like these speeches and immediately called the evil old woman to her. “Here,” he says, “a ring for you; go into the dense forest, in that forest there is a white-stone palace, my stepdaughter lives in the palace; bow to her and give this ring - say: my brother sent it as a souvenir!” The old woman took the ring and went where she was told; comes to the white-stone palace, the red maiden saw her, ran out to meet her - she wanted, therefore, to try for news from her native side. “Hello, grandma! How did God bring you? Is everyone alive and well?” - “They live, chew bread! My brother asked me to check on your health and sent me a ring as a gift; show off!” The girl is so happy, so glad that it’s impossible to tell; She brought the old woman into the room, treated her to all sorts of snacks and drinks, and ordered her brother to bow deeply. After an hour, the old woman trudged back, and the girl began to admire the ring and decided to put it on her finger; put it on - and at that very moment she fell dead.

Two heroes arrive, enter the chambers, but the sister does not greet them: what is it? We looked into her bedroom; and she lies dead, doesn’t say a word. The heroes were inflamed: what was most beautiful was that death suddenly took hold! “We must,” they say, “put her in new clothes and put her in a coffin.” They began to clean up, and one noticed a ring on the red girl’s hand: “Is it really possible to bury her with this ring? Let me take it off and leave it as a souvenir.” As soon as he took off the ring, the red maiden immediately opened her eyes, sighed and came to life. “What happened to you, sister? Did anyone come to see you?” - the heroes ask. “An old lady I knew from home came in and brought a ring.” - “Oh, how naughty you are! It’s not for nothing that we punished you not to let anyone into the house without us. Be careful, don’t do that next time!”

After some time, the merchant's wife looked into her mirror and found out that her stepdaughter was still alive and beautiful; she called the old woman, gave her a ribbon and said: “Go to the white-stone palace where my stepdaughter lives, and give her this gift; say: brother sent it!” Again the old woman came to the red maiden, told her about three boxes of different things and gave her the ribbon. The girl was delighted, tied a ribbon around her neck - and at that very moment fell onto the bed, dead. The heroes came from the hunt, looked - my sister was lying dead, they began to put her in new outfits and as soon as they took off the ribbon, she immediately opened her eyes, sighed and came to life. “What’s wrong with you, sister? Was Ali an old woman again?” “Yes,” he says, “an old woman from home came and brought me a ribbon.” - “Oh, what you are! After all, we asked you: don’t accept anyone without us!” - “Sorry, dear brothers! I couldn’t stand it, I wanted to hear news from home.”

A few more days passed - the merchant's wife looked in the mirror: her stepdaughter was alive again. She called the old woman. “Only,” he says, “just a hair’s breadth! Go to your stepdaughter, be sure to kill her!” The old woman took advantage of the time when the heroes went hunting, and came to the white stone palace; The red maiden saw her through the window, could not stand it, ran out to meet her: “Hello, grandmother! How has God been merciful to you?” - “As long as she’s alive, my dear! I’ve been wandering around the world and came here to visit you.” The red maiden brought her into the room, treated her to all sorts of snacks and drinks, asked about her relatives and ordered her to bow to her brother. “Okay,” says the old woman, “I’ll bow. But you, my dear, have no one to look for tea in your head? Let me look.” - “Look, grandma!” She began to look in the head of the red maiden and wove a magic hair into her braid; As soon as she wove this hair, the girl at that very moment became dead. The old woman grinned evilly and left quickly so that no one would catch her or see her.

The heroes arrive, enter the rooms - the sister lies dead; For a long time they peered and looked closely to see if there was anything superfluous on it? No, you can't see anything! So they made a crystal coffin - so wonderful that you couldn’t even think of it, couldn’t imagine it, only say it in a fairy tale; they dressed the merchant's daughter in a shiny dress, like a bride to the crown, and placed her in a crystal coffin; That coffin was placed in the middle of the large chamber, and above it they placed a canopy of red velvet with diamond tassels and gold fringes, and twelve lamps were hung on twelve crystal pillars. After that, the heroes burst into burning tears; They were overcome with great melancholy. “What,” they say, “are we supposed to live in this world? Let’s go and decide for ourselves!” They hugged, said goodbye to each other, went out onto the high balcony, held hands and rushed down; hit sharp stones and ended their lives.

Many, many years have passed. It happened that one prince was out hunting; He drove into a dense forest, sent his dogs loose in different directions, separated from the hunters and rode alone along a dead path. He drove and drove, and there was a clearing in front of him, in the clearing there was a white stone palace. The prince dismounted from his horse, climbed the stairs, and began to inspect the chambers; Everywhere the decorations are rich, luxurious, but the owner’s hand is not visible on anything: everything was abandoned a long time ago, everything was neglected! In one chamber there is a crystal coffin, and in the coffin lies a dead girl of indescribable beauty: there is a blush on her cheeks, a smile on her lips, as if she were alive, she is sleeping.

The prince approached, looked at the girl, and remained in place, as if an invisible force was holding him. He stands there from morning until late evening, unable to take his eyes off, anxiety in his heart: he was riveted by a girl’s beauty - wonderful, unprecedented, which cannot be found anywhere else in the whole world! And hunters have been looking for him for a long time; They were already scouring the forest, blowing trumpets, and raising voices - the prince was standing at the crystal coffin, hearing nothing. The sun set, the darkness deepened, and only then did he come to his senses - he kissed the dead girl and drove back. "Ah, your highness, where have you been?" - the hunters ask. “I was chasing an animal, but I got a little lost.” The next day, just before it’s light, the prince is getting ready to go hunting; galloped into the forest, separated from the hunters and along the same path arrived at the white-stone palace. Again I stood at the crystal coffin all day, not taking my eyes off the dead beauty; I only returned home late at night. On the third day, on the fourth everything was the same, and so a whole week passed. “What happened to our prince?” say the hunters. “Let us, brothers, keep an eye on him, make sure that no harm happens.”

So the prince went hunting, released his dogs through the forest, separated from his retinue and headed his way to the white-stone palace; The hunters immediately follow him, come to the clearing, enter the palace - there is a crystal coffin in the chamber, a dead girl lies in the coffin, the prince stands in front of the girl. “Well, Your Highness, it’s not for nothing that you’ve been lost in the forest for a whole week! Now we won’t be able to leave here until the evening.” They surrounded the crystal coffin, looked at the girl, admired her beauty, and stood in one place from morning until late evening. When it got completely dark, the prince turned to the hunters: “Do me, brothers, a great service: take the coffin with the dead girl, bring it and place it in my bedroom; do it quietly, secretly, so that no one finds out about it, does not find out. I will reward you in every possible way.” , I’ll give you a golden treasury, like no one has ever given you.” - “Your will is to favor; and we, Tsarevich, are happy to serve you anyway!” - said the hunters, picked up the crystal coffin, took it out into the courtyard, set it up on horseback and took it to the royal palace; They brought it and placed it in the prince’s bedroom.

From that very day the prince stopped even thinking about hunting; he sits at home, doesn’t leave his room anywhere - he keeps admiring the girl. “What happened to our son?” the queen thinks. “It’s been a long time, but he’s still sitting at home, doesn’t come out of his room and doesn’t let anyone in. Did sadness or melancholy set in, or was he feigning some kind of illness? Let me go look at him." The queen enters his bedroom and sees a crystal coffin. How and what? She asked and found out and immediately gave the order to bury that girl, as was customary, in the damp earth.

The prince began to cry, went into the garden, picked wonderful flowers, brought them back and began to comb the dead beauty’s brown hair and cover her head with flowers. Suddenly a magic hair fell out of her braid - the beauty opened her eyes, sighed, rose from the crystal coffin and said: “Oh, how long I slept!” The prince was incredibly happy, took her hand, led her to her father, to her mother. “God gave her to me,” he says! I can’t live without her for a single minute. Allow me, dear father, and you, dear mother, allow me to get married.” - “Get married, son! We won’t go against God, and we can’t look for such beauty in the whole world!” Kings never stop for anything; on the same day with an honest feast and for the wedding.

The prince married a merchant's daughter and lives with her - he couldn't be happier. Some time passed - she decided to go in her direction, to visit her father and brother; The prince, not averse to it, began to ask his father. “Okay,” says the king, “go, my dear children! You, prince, go on a detour by land, inspect all our lands and find out the order, and let your wife sail on the ship in a direct way.” So they prepared the ship for the voyage, dressed the sailors, appointed the initial general; The princess boarded the ship and went out to the open sea, and the prince went by land.

The leading general, seeing the beautiful princess, envied her beauty and began to flatter her; Why be afraid, he thinks, - after all, she is now in my hands, I do whatever I want! “Love me,” he says to the princess, “if you don’t love me, I’ll throw you into the sea!” The princess turned away, did not give him an answer, only burst into tears. One sailor overheard the general’s speeches, came to the princess in the evening and began to say: “Don’t cry, princess! Dress in my dress, and I’ll put on yours; you go on deck, and I’ll stay in the cabin. Even if the general throws me into the sea, I will I’m not afraid of that; maybe I can handle it, I’ll swim to the pier: fortunately the land is close now!” They exchanged dresses; the princess went on deck, and the sailor lay down on her bed. At night, the leading general appeared in the cabin, grabbed the sailor and threw him into the sea. The sailor set off swimming and reached the shore by morning. The ship arrived at the pier, the sailors began to go ashore; The princess also went down, rushed to the market, bought herself a cook's clothes, dressed up as a cook and hired herself to serve in the kitchen for her own father.

A little later, the prince comes to the merchant. “Hello,” he says, “father! Come see your son-in-law, because I’m married to your daughter. But where is she? Have you been there yet?” And then the leading general appears with a report: “So and so, Your Highness! A misfortune happened: the princess was standing on the deck, a storm arose, the rocking began, her head began to spin - and before she could blink, the princess fell into the sea and drowned!” The prince strained and cried, but you can’t turn him back from the bottom of the sea; Apparently, this is her destiny! The prince stayed with his father-in-law for some time and ordered his retinue to prepare for departure; the merchant gave a big feast at parting; Merchants, boyars, and all his relatives gathered to see him: his brother, the evil old woman, and the chief general were there.

They drank, ate, cooled off; one of the guests says: “Listen, honest gentlemen! If you keep drinking and drinking, it won’t do any good; let’s better tell fairy tales.” - “Okay, okay!” they shouted from all sides. “Who will start?” One doesn’t know how, the other is not good at it, and the third has lost his memory of wine. What should I do? The merchant clerk responded: “We have a new cook in the kitchen, he has traveled a lot in foreign lands, he has seen many different wonders and is such a master at telling fairy tales - so what!” The merchant called that cook. “Sweat,” he says, “my guests!” The cook-princess answers him: “What should I tell you: a fairy tale or an incident?” - “Tell something that happened!” - “Perhaps, it’s possible to do some violence, only with this agreement: whoever interrupts me will get a plague in the forehead.”

Everyone agreed to this. And the princess began to tell everything that happened to her. “So and so,” he says, “the merchant had a daughter; the merchant went overseas and entrusted his brother with looking after the girl; the uncle coveted her beauty and did not give her a moment of peace...” And the uncle hears that it’s about He walks towards him and says: “This, gentlemen, is not true!” - “Oh, don’t you think it’s true? That’s a plague in your forehead!” After that, it came to the stepmother, how she interrogated the magic mirror, and to the evil old woman, how she came to the heroes in the white stone palace - and the old woman and stepmother shouted in one voice: “What nonsense! This cannot be.” The princess hit them on the forehead with a chumichka and began to tell how she lay in a crystal coffin, how the prince found her, revived her and married her, and how she went to visit her father.

The general realized that something was wrong and asked the prince: “Let me go home; I have a headache!” - “Nothing, sit a little!” The princess began to talk about the general; Well, he couldn’t bear it either. “All this,” he says, “is not true!” With a blow to his forehead, the princess threw off her chef’s dress and revealed herself to the prince: “I’m not a cook, I’m your lawful wife!” The prince was delighted, and so was the merchant; they rushed to hug and kiss her; and then they began to judge the court; the evil old woman and her uncle were shot at the gate, the stepmother-sorceress was tied to a stallion by the tail, the stallion flew into an open field and scattered her bones through the bushes, along the yarugs; The prince sent the general to hard labor, and in his place he gave a sailor, who saved the princess from trouble. From that time on, the prince, his wife and the merchant lived together - happily ever after.



In a certain kingdom, in a certain state, there lived a widower merchant; he had a son, a daughter, and a brother... At one time, this merchant is going to go to foreign lands, buy various goods, takes his son with him, and leaves his daughter at home; He calls his brother and says to him: “I entrust to you, dear brother, my entire house and household, and I earnestly ask: look after my daughter more closely, teach her to read and write, and do not allow her to be spoiled!” After that, the merchant said goodbye to his brother and daughter and set off on his journey. And the merchant’s daughter was already old and of such indescribable beauty that even if you walked around the world, you wouldn’t find another like her! An unclean thought came into his uncle’s head, it gave him no rest day or night, and he began to pester the red maiden. “Either,” he says, “commit a sin to me, or you won’t live in the world; and I myself will disappear and kill you!..”

Once a girl went to the bathhouse, her uncle followed her - just through the door, she grabbed a basin full of boiling water and doused him from head to toe. He lay there for three weeks and barely recovered; terrible hatred gnawed at his heart, and he began to think: how to laugh off this ridicule? I thought and thought, and finally wrote a letter to my brother: your daughter is doing bad things, wandering around other people’s yards, doesn’t spend the night at home and doesn’t listen to me. The merchant received this letter, read it and became very angry; says to his son: “Your sister has disgraced the whole house! I don’t want to have mercy on her: go this very minute, chop the scoundrel into small pieces and bring her heart with this knife. Let good people not laugh at our kind-tribe!”

The son took a sharp knife and went home; I arrived in my hometown on the sly, without telling anyone, and began to scout around: how does such and such a merchant’s daughter live? Everyone praises her with one voice - they cannot boast enough: she is quiet, and modest, and knows God, and listens to good people. Having found out everything, he went to his sister; she was delighted, rushed to meet him, hugs him, kisses him: “Dear brother! How did the Lord bring you? What about our dear father? - “Oh, dear sister, don’t rush to rejoice. My arrival is not good: my father sent me and ordered your white body to be chopped into small pieces, your heart to be taken out and delivered to him on this knife.”

My sister started crying. “My God,” he says, “why such disfavor?” - “But for what!” - the brother answered and told her about his uncle’s letter. “Oh, brother, I’m not guilty of anything!” The merchant’s son listened to how and what happened and said: “Don’t cry, sister! I myself know that you are not guilty, and even though the priest did not order you to accept any excuses, I still don’t want to execute you. You’d better get ready and leave your father’s house wherever you look; God will not leave you!” The merchant's daughter did not think long, got ready for the journey, said goodbye to her brother and went where - she herself does not know. And her brother killed a yard dog, took out the heart, put it on a sharp knife and took it to his father. He gives him the dog’s heart: “So and so,” he says, “on your parental orders, I executed my sister.” - “Come on! Death for a dog!” - answered the father.

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How long or how short did the red maiden wander around the white world, and finally entered a dense, dense forest: from behind the tall trees the sky was barely visible. She began to walk through this forest and accidentally came out into a wide clearing; in this clearing there is a white stone palace, around the palace there is an iron lattice. “Let me go,” the girl thinks, “I’ll go into this palace, not everyone is evil, maybe the worst will happen!” She enters the chambers - there is not a human soul in the chambers; I was about to turn back - suddenly two powerful heroes galloped into the courtyard, entered the palace, saw the girl and said: “Hello, beauty!” - “Hello, honest knights!” “Here, brother,” said one hero to another, “you and I were grieving that there was no one to manage our house; and God sent us a sister.” The heroes left the merchant's daughter to live with them, called her their own sister, gave her the keys and made her the mistress of the whole house; then they took out sharp sabers, pressed them into each other’s chests and made the following agreement: “If one of us dares to encroach on his sister, then we will chop him up without mercy with this very saber.”

Here is a red maiden living with two heroes; and her father bought overseas goods, returned home and a little later married another wife. This merchant's wife was of indescribable beauty and had a magic mirror; look in the mirror - you will immediately find out where everything is being done. Once the heroes gathered for a hunt and told their sister: “Be careful, don’t let anyone in until we arrive!” They said goodbye to her and left. At this very time, the merchant’s wife looked into the mirror, admired her beauty and said: “There is no one more beautiful than me in the world!” And the mirror answered: “You are good - no doubt about it! And you have a stepdaughter, she lives with two heroes in a dense forest - she’s even more beautiful!”

The stepmother did not like these speeches and immediately called the evil old woman to her. “Here,” he says, “here’s a ring for you; go into the dense forest, in that forest there is a white-stone palace, my stepdaughter lives in the palace; bow to her and give her this ring - say: brother sent it as a souvenir!” The old woman took the ring and went where she was told; comes to the white-stone palace, the red maiden saw her, ran out to meet her - she wanted, therefore, to try for news from her native side. “Hello, grandma! How did God bring you? Is everyone alive and well? - “They live, chew bread! My brother asked me to check on your health and sent me a ring as a gift; come on, show off!” The girl is so happy, so glad that it’s impossible to tell; She brought the old woman into the room, treated her to all sorts of snacks and drinks, and ordered her brother to bow deeply. After an hour, the old woman trudged back, and the girl began to admire the ring and decided to put it on her finger; put it on - and at that very moment she fell dead.

Two heroes arrive, enter the chambers, but the sister does not greet them: what is it? We looked into her bedroom; and she lies dead, doesn’t say a word. The heroes were inflamed: what was most beautiful was that death suddenly took hold! “We must,” they say, “put her in new clothes and put her in a coffin.” They began to clean up, and one noticed a ring on the red girl’s hand: “Is it really possible to bury her with this ring? Let me take it off, I’ll leave it as a souvenir.” Just took off the ring - and the red maiden

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She immediately opened her eyes, sighed and came to life. “What happened to you, sister? Didn’t anyone come to see you?” - the heroes ask. “An old lady I know came from home and brought me a ring.” - “Oh, how naughty you are! After all, it was not for nothing that we punished you so that you wouldn’t let anyone into the house without us. Make sure you don’t do this next time!”

After some time, the merchant's wife looked into her mirror and found out that her stepdaughter was still alive and beautiful; she called the old woman, gave her a ribbon and said: “Go to the white-stone palace where my stepdaughter lives, and give her this gift; say: brother sent! Again the old woman came to the red maiden, told her about three boxes of different things and gave her the ribbon. The girl was delighted, tied a ribbon around her neck - and at that very moment fell onto the bed, dead. The heroes came from the hunt, looked - my sister was lying dead, they began to put her in new outfits and as soon as they took off the ribbon, she immediately opened her eyes, sighed and came to life. “What's wrong with you, sister? Was there an old woman again? “Yes,” he says, “an old woman came from home and brought me a ribbon.” - “Oh, what you are! After all, we asked you: don’t accept anyone without us!” - “Sorry, dear brothers! I couldn’t stand it, I wanted to hear news from home.”

A few more days passed - the merchant's wife looked in the mirror: her stepdaughter was alive again. She called the old woman. “Only,” he says, “a hair’s breadth!” Go to your stepdaughter, be sure to kill her!” The old woman took advantage of the time when the heroes went hunting, and came to the white stone palace; The red maiden saw her through the window, could not stand it, ran out to meet her: “Hello, grandma! How does God have mercy on you? - “As long as you’re alive, my dear!” I was wandering around the world and came here to visit you.” The red maiden brought her into the room, treated her to all sorts of snacks and drinks, asked about her relatives and ordered her to bow to her brother. “Okay,” says the old woman, “I will bow.” But you, my dear, have no one to look for tea in your head? Let me look.” - “Look, grandma!” She began to look in the head of the red maiden and wove a magic hair into her braid; As soon as she wove this hair, the girl at that very moment became dead. The old woman grinned evilly and left quickly so that no one would catch her or see her.

The heroes arrive, enter the rooms - the sister lies dead; For a long time they peered and looked closely to see if there was anything superfluous on it? No, you can't see anything! So they made a crystal coffin - so wonderful that you couldn’t even think of it, couldn’t imagine it, only say it in a fairy tale; they dressed the merchant's daughter in a shiny dress, like a bride to the crown, and placed her in a crystal coffin; That coffin was placed in the middle of the large chamber, and above it they placed a canopy of red velvet with diamond tassels with gold fringes, and twelve lamps were hung on twelve crystal pillars. After that, the heroes burst into burning tears; They were overcome with great melancholy. “What,” they say, “are we supposed to live on in this world? Let’s go and decide for ourselves!” They hugged, said goodbye to each other, went out onto the high balcony, held hands and rushed down; hit sharp stones and ended their lives.

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Many, many years have passed. It happened that one prince was out hunting; He drove into a dense forest, sent his dogs loose in different directions, separated from the hunters and rode alone along a dead path. He drove and drove, and there was a clearing in front of him, in the clearing there was a white stone palace. The prince dismounted from his horse, climbed the stairs, and began to inspect the chambers; Everywhere the decorations are rich, luxurious, but the owner’s hand is not visible on anything: everything was abandoned a long time ago, everything was neglected! In one chamber there is a crystal coffin, and in the coffin lies a dead girl of indescribable beauty: there is a blush on her cheeks, a smile on her lips, as if she were alive, she is sleeping.

The prince approached, looked at the girl, and remained in place, as if an invisible force was holding him. He stands there from morning until late evening, unable to take his eyes off, anxiety in his heart: he was riveted by a girl’s beauty - wonderful, unprecedented, which cannot be found anywhere else in the whole world! And hunters have been looking for him for a long time; They were already scouring the forest, blowing trumpets, and raising voices - the prince was standing at the crystal coffin, hearing nothing. The sun set, the darkness deepened, and only then did he come to his senses - he kissed the dead girl and drove back. “Ah, your highness, where have you been?” - the hunters ask. “I was chasing an animal, but I got a little lost.” The next day, just before it’s light, the prince is getting ready to go hunting; galloped into the forest, separated from the hunters and along the same path arrived at the white-stone palace. Again I stood at the crystal coffin all day, not taking my eyes off the dead beauty; I only returned home late at night. On the third day, on the fourth everything was the same, and so a whole week passed. “What happened to our prince? - say the hunters. “Let us, brothers, keep an eye on him, make sure that no harm happens.”

So the prince went hunting, let his dogs loose in the forest, separated from his retinue and headed his way to the white-stone palace; The hunters immediately follow him, come to the clearing, enter the palace - there is a crystal coffin in the chamber, a dead girl lies in the coffin, the prince stands in front of the girl. “Well, Your Highness, it’s not for nothing that you’ve been lost in the forest for a whole week! Now we won’t be able to leave here until the evening.” They surrounded the crystal coffin, looked at the girl, admired her beauty, and stood in one place from morning until late evening. When it got completely dark, the prince turned to the hunters: “Do me, brothers, a great service: take the coffin with the dead girl, bring it and place it in my bedroom; Yes, quietly, secretly, so that no one finds out about it, does not find out. I will reward you in every possible way, I will reward you with a golden treasury, like no one has rewarded you.” - “Your will is to favor; and we, Tsarevich, are happy to serve you anyway!” - said the hunters, picked up the crystal coffin, took it out into the courtyard, set it up on horseback and took it to the royal palace; They brought it and placed it in the prince’s bedroom.

From that very day the prince stopped even thinking about hunting; he sits at home, doesn’t leave his room anywhere - he keeps admiring the girl. “What happened to our son? - the queen thinks. “It’s been a long time, but he’s still sitting at home, doesn’t leave his room and doesn’t let anyone in.” Did sadness or melancholy set in, or did you feign some kind of illness? Let me go look at him.” The queen enters him

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bedroom and sees a crystal coffin. How and what? She asked and found out and immediately gave the order to bury that girl, as was customary, in the damp earth.

The prince began to cry, went into the garden, picked wonderful flowers, brought them back and began to comb the dead beauty’s brown hair and cover her head with flowers. Suddenly a magic hair fell out of her braid - the beauty opened her eyes, sighed, rose from the crystal coffin and said: “Oh, how long I slept!” The prince was incredibly happy, took her hand, led her to her father, to her mother. “God gave it to me,” he says! I can't live without her for a single minute. Allow me, dear father, and you, dear mother, allow me to get married.” - “Get married, son! We won’t go against God, and we can’t look for such beauty in the whole world!” Tsars never stop for anything: an honest feast on the same day and even for a wedding.

The prince married a merchant's daughter and lives with her - he couldn't be happier. Some time passed - she decided to go in her direction, to visit her father and brother; The prince, not averse to it, began to ask his father. “Okay,” says the king, “go, my dear children! You, prince, go on a detour by land, inspect all our lands and find out the order, and let your wife sail on the ship in a direct way.” So they prepared the ship for the voyage, dressed the sailors, appointed the initial general; The princess boarded the ship and went out to the open sea, and the prince went by land.

The leading general, seeing the beautiful princess, envied her beauty and began to flatter her; Why be afraid, he thinks, - after all, she is now in my hands, I do whatever I want! “Love me,” he says to the princess, “if you don’t love me, I’ll throw you into the sea!” The princess turned away, did not give him an answer, only burst into tears. One sailor overheard the general’s speeches, came to the princess in the evening and began to say: “Don’t cry, princess! Dress yourself in my dress, and I will put on yours; You go on deck, and I’ll stay in the cabin. Let the general throw me into the sea - I’m not afraid of that; Maybe I can handle it, I’ll swim to the pier: fortunately the land is close now!” They exchanged dresses; the princess went on deck, and the sailor lay down on her bed. At night, the leading general appeared in the cabin, grabbed the sailor and threw him into the sea. The sailor set off swimming and reached the shore by morning. The ship arrived at the pier, the sailors began to go ashore; The princess also went down, rushed to the market, bought herself a cook's clothes, dressed up as a cook and hired herself to serve in the kitchen for her own father.

A little later, the prince comes to the merchant. “Hello,” he says, “father! Accept your son-in-law, because I am married to your daughter. Where is she? Al hasn’t been there yet?” And then the initial general appears with a report: “So and so, Your Highness! A misfortune happened: the princess was standing on the deck, a storm arose, rocking began, her head began to spin - and before she could blink, the princess fell into the sea and drowned!” The prince strained and cried, but you can’t turn him back from the bottom of the sea; Apparently, this is her destiny! The prince stayed with his father-in-law for some time and ordered his retinue to prepare for departure; the merchant asked a big farewell

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feast; Merchants, boyars, and all his relatives gathered to see him: his brother, the evil old woman, and the chief general were there.

They drank, ate, cooled off; one of the guests says: “Listen, honest gentlemen! If you keep drinking and drinking, it won’t do any good; Let’s tell better stories.” - "OK OK! - they shouted from all sides. - Who will start? One doesn’t know how, the other is not good at it, and the third has lost his memory of wine. What should I do? The merchant clerk responded: “We have a new cook in the kitchen, he has traveled a lot in foreign lands, he has seen many different wonders, and he is such a master at telling fairy tales—what the hell!” The merchant called that cook. “Sweat,” he says, “my guests!” The cook-princess answers him: “What should I tell you: a fairy tale or an incident?” - “Tell something that happened!” - “Perhaps, it’s possible to have a blast, only with this agreement: whoever interrupts me will get a plague in the forehead.”

Everyone agreed to this. And the princess began to tell everything that happened to her. “So and so,” he says, “the merchant had a daughter; the merchant went overseas and instructed his brother to look after the girl; Uncle coveted her beauty and doesn’t give her a moment of peace...” And Uncle hears that they are talking about him and says: “This, gentlemen, is not true!” - “Oh, don’t you think it’s true? Here's a plague to your forehead! " After that, it came to the stepmother, how she interrogated the magic mirror, and to the evil old woman, how she came to the heroes in the white stone palace - and the old woman and stepmother shouted in one voice: “What nonsense! This cannot be." The princess hit them on the forehead with a chumichka and began to tell how she lay in a crystal coffin, how the prince found her, revived her and married her, and how she went to visit her father.

The general realized that things were not going well, and asked the prince: “Let me go home; I have a headache!” - “Nothing, sit for a while!” The princess began to talk about the general; Well, he couldn’t bear it either. “All this,” he says, “is not true!” With a blow to his forehead, the princess threw off her chef’s dress and revealed herself to the prince: “I’m not a cook, I’m your lawful wife!” The prince was delighted, and so was the merchant; they rushed to hug and kiss her; and then they began to judge the court; the evil old woman and her uncle were shot at the gate, the stepmother-sorceress was tied to a stallion by the tail, the stallion flew into an open field and scattered her bones through the bushes, along the yarugs; The prince sent the general to hard labor, and in his place he gave a sailor, who saved the princess from trouble. From that time on, the prince, his wife and the merchant lived together - happily ever after.

About the fairy tale

Russian folk tale "The Magic Mirror"

Russian folk tales are one of the most beautiful creations of oral folk art. Among the many plots of fairy tales, there is always a place fairy tale story with miracles and transformations, good witches and evil witches.

One of these fairy tales is the "Magic Mirror" main character whose daughter is a merchant. She lived in her father's house with her widower father, brother and uncle. And everything would be fine in her life until her father decided to go to foreign lands for new goods.

Then the young and beautiful girl serious tests. At first, her uncle began to harass her. And when he received a rebuff from his niece, he slandered her. The father decided to punish his daughter. So the girl had to leave her home and go wherever she looked.

A shelter was found for the merchant's daughter in a forest palace with three brothers, who accepted her as their own sister. But unfortunately for the merchant’s daughter, her father decided to marry her. The stepmother, although she was a beautiful woman, turned out to be an angry and envious person.

To strengthen this negative image, the storyteller presented the merchant's new wife in the role of an evil sorceress. Three times the stepmother wanted to take her stepdaughter away from the world. The third time she succeeded. The girl fell asleep in a magical sleep.

And, if not for the kiss of the young prince, the merchant’s daughter would never have woken up from the evil spell. The young people got married and they would have been happy if evil people with unclean thoughts had not interfered in their fate again.

Fate tested the merchant's daughter many times, presenting her with more and more new trials. But she managed to remain honest and infallible before her father, brother and husband.

Thus, through a fairy-tale image in Russian folk tales, the image of a Russian woman was created - pure and virtuous, honest and fair. The merchant's daughter in the fairy tale “The Magic Mirror” is a collective image of a mother, sister, bride, and wife.

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In a certain kingdom, in a certain state, there lived a widower merchant; he had a son, a daughter, and a brother... At one time, this merchant is going to go to foreign lands, buy various goods, takes his son with him, and leaves his daughter at home; He calls his brother and says to him: “I entrust to you, dear brother, my entire house and household, and I earnestly ask: look after my daughter more closely, teach her to read and write, and do not allow her to be spoiled!” After that, the merchant said goodbye to his brother and daughter and set off on his journey. And the merchant’s daughter was already old and of such indescribable beauty that even if you walked around the world, you wouldn’t find another like her! An unclean thought came into his uncle’s head, it gave him no rest day or night, and he began to pester the red maiden. “Either,” he says, “commit a sin to me, or you won’t live in the world; and I myself will disappear and kill you!..”

Once a girl went to the bathhouse, her uncle followed her - just through the door, she grabbed a basin full of boiling water and doused him from head to toe. He lay there for three weeks and barely recovered; terrible hatred gnawed at his heart, and he began to think: how to laugh off this ridicule? I thought and thought, and finally wrote a letter to my brother: your daughter is doing bad things, wandering around other people’s yards, doesn’t spend the night at home and doesn’t listen to me. The merchant received this letter, read it and became very angry; says to his son: “Your sister has disgraced the whole house! I don’t want to have mercy on her: go this very minute, chop the scoundrel into small pieces and bring her heart with this knife. Let good people not laugh at our kind-tribe!”

The son took a sharp knife and went home; I arrived in my hometown on the sly, without telling anyone, and began to scout around: how does such and such a merchant’s daughter live? Everyone praises her with one voice - they cannot boast enough: she is quiet, and modest, and knows God, and listens to good people. Having found out everything, he went to his sister; she was delighted, rushed to meet him, hugs him, kisses him: “Dear brother! How did the Lord bring you? What about our dear father? - “Oh, dear sister, don’t rush to rejoice. My arrival is not good: my father sent me and ordered your white body to be chopped into small pieces, your heart to be taken out and delivered to him on this knife.”

My sister started crying. “My God,” he says, “why such disfavor?” - “But for what!” - the brother answered and told her about his uncle’s letter. “Oh, brother, I’m not guilty of anything!” The merchant’s son listened to how and what happened and said: “Don’t cry, sister! I myself know that you are not guilty, and even though the priest did not order you to accept any excuses, I still don’t want to execute you. You’d better get ready and leave your father’s house wherever you look; God will not leave you!” The merchant's daughter did not think long, got ready for the journey, said goodbye to her brother and went where - she herself does not know. And her brother killed a yard dog, took out the heart, put it on a sharp knife and took it to his father. He gives him the dog’s heart: “So and so,” he says, “on your parental orders, I executed my sister.” - “Come on! Death for a dog!” - answered the father.

How long or how short did the red maiden wander around the white world, and finally entered a dense, dense forest: from behind the tall trees the sky was barely visible. She began to walk through this forest and accidentally came out into a wide clearing; in this clearing there is a white stone palace, around the palace there is an iron lattice. “Let me go,” the girl thinks, “I’ll go into this palace, not everyone is evil, maybe the worst will happen!” She enters the chambers - there is not a human soul in the chambers; I was about to turn back - suddenly two powerful heroes galloped into the courtyard, entered the palace, saw the girl and said: “Hello, beauty!” - “Hello, honest knights!” “Here, brother,” said one hero to another, “you and I were grieving that there was no one to manage our house; and God sent us a sister.” The heroes left the merchant's daughter to live with them, called her their own sister, gave her the keys and made her the mistress of the whole house; then they took out sharp sabers, pressed them into each other’s chests and made the following agreement: “If one of us dares to encroach on his sister, then we will chop him up without mercy with this very saber.”

Here is a red maiden living with two heroes; and her father bought overseas goods, returned home and a little later married another wife. This merchant's wife was of indescribable beauty and had a magic mirror; look in the mirror - you will immediately find out where everything is being done. Once the heroes gathered for a hunt and told their sister: “Be careful, don’t let anyone in until we arrive!” They said goodbye to her and left. At this very time, the merchant’s wife looked into the mirror, admired her beauty and said: “There is no one more beautiful than me in the world!” And the mirror answered: “You are good - no doubt about it! And you have a stepdaughter, she lives with two heroes in a dense forest - she’s even more beautiful!”

The stepmother did not like these speeches and immediately called the evil old woman to her. “Here,” he says, “here’s a ring for you; go into the dense forest, in that forest there is a white-stone palace, my stepdaughter lives in the palace; bow to her and give her this ring - say: brother sent it as a souvenir!” The old woman took the ring and went where she was told; comes to the white-stone palace, the red maiden saw her, ran out to meet her - she wanted, therefore, to try for news from her native side. “Hello, grandma! How did God bring you? Is everyone alive and well? - “They live, chew bread! My brother asked me to check on your health and sent me a ring as a gift; come on, show off!” The girl is so happy, so glad that it’s impossible to tell; She brought the old woman into the room, treated her to all sorts of snacks and drinks, and ordered her brother to bow deeply. After an hour, the old woman trudged back, and the girl began to admire the ring and decided to put it on her finger; put it on - and at that very moment she fell dead.

Two heroes arrive, enter the chambers, but the sister does not greet them: what is it? We looked into her bedroom; and she lies dead, doesn’t say a word. The heroes were inflamed: what was most beautiful was that death suddenly took hold! “We must,” they say, “put her in new clothes and put her in a coffin.” They began to clean up, and one noticed a ring on the red girl’s hand: “Is it really possible to bury her with this ring? Let me take it off, I’ll leave it as a souvenir.” As soon as he took off the ring, the red maiden immediately opened her eyes, sighed and came to life. “What happened to you, sister? Didn’t anyone come to see you?” - the heroes ask. “An old lady I know came from home and brought me a ring.” - “Oh, how naughty you are! After all, it was not for nothing that we punished you so that you wouldn’t let anyone into the house without us. Make sure you don’t do this next time!”

After some time, the merchant's wife looked into her mirror and found out that her stepdaughter was still alive and beautiful; she called the old woman, gave her a ribbon and said: “Go to the white-stone palace where my stepdaughter lives, and give her this gift; say: brother sent! Again the old woman came to the red maiden, told her about three boxes of different things and gave her the ribbon. The girl was delighted, tied a ribbon around her neck - and at that very moment fell onto the bed, dead. The heroes came from the hunt, looked - my sister was lying dead, they began to put her in new outfits and as soon as they took off the ribbon, she immediately opened her eyes, sighed and came to life. “What's wrong with you, sister? Was there an old woman again? “Yes,” he says, “an old woman came from home and brought me a ribbon.” - “Oh, what you are! After all, we asked you: don’t accept anyone without us!” - “Sorry, dear brothers! I couldn’t stand it, I wanted to hear news from home.”

A few more days passed - the merchant's wife looked in the mirror: her stepdaughter was alive again. She called the old woman. “Only,” he says, “a hair’s breadth!” Go to your stepdaughter, be sure to kill her!” The old woman took advantage of the time when the heroes went hunting, and came to the white stone palace; The red maiden saw her through the window, could not stand it, ran out to meet her: “Hello, grandma! How does God have mercy on you? - “As long as you’re alive, my dear!” I was wandering around the world and came here to visit you.” The red maiden brought her into the room, treated her to all sorts of snacks and drinks, asked about her relatives and ordered her to bow to her brother. “Okay,” says the old woman, “I will bow.” But you, my dear, have no one to look for tea in your head? Let me look.” - “Look, grandma!” She began to look in the head of the red maiden and wove a magic hair into her braid; As soon as she wove this hair, the girl at that very moment became dead. The old woman grinned evilly and left quickly so that no one would catch her or see her.

The heroes arrive, enter the rooms - the sister lies dead; For a long time they peered and looked closely to see if there was anything superfluous on it? No, you can't see anything! So they made a crystal coffin - so wonderful that you couldn’t even think of it, couldn’t imagine it, only say it in a fairy tale; they dressed the merchant's daughter in a shiny dress, like a bride to the crown, and placed her in a crystal coffin; That coffin was placed in the middle of the large chamber, and above it they placed a canopy of red velvet with diamond tassels with gold fringes, and twelve lamps were hung on twelve crystal pillars. After that, the heroes burst into burning tears; They were overcome with great melancholy. “What,” they say, “are we supposed to live on in this world? Let’s go and decide for ourselves!” They hugged, said goodbye to each other, went out onto the high balcony, held hands and rushed down; hit sharp stones and ended their lives.

Many, many years have passed. It happened that one prince was out hunting; He drove into a dense forest, sent his dogs loose in different directions, separated from the hunters and rode alone along a dead path. He drove and drove, and there was a clearing in front of him, in the clearing there was a white stone palace. The prince dismounted from his horse, climbed the stairs, and began to inspect the chambers; Everywhere the decorations are rich, luxurious, but the owner’s hand is not visible on anything: everything was abandoned a long time ago, everything was neglected! In one chamber there is a crystal coffin, and in the coffin lies a dead girl of indescribable beauty: there is a blush on her cheeks, a smile on her lips, as if she were alive, she is sleeping.

The prince approached, looked at the girl, and remained in place, as if an invisible force was holding him. He stands there from morning until late evening, unable to take his eyes off, anxiety in his heart: he was riveted by a girl’s beauty - wonderful, unprecedented, which cannot be found anywhere else in the whole world! And hunters have been looking for him for a long time; They were already scouring the forest, blowing trumpets, and raising voices - the prince was standing at the crystal coffin, hearing nothing. The sun set, the darkness deepened, and only then did he come to his senses - he kissed the dead girl and drove back. “Ah, your highness, where have you been?” - the hunters ask. “I was chasing an animal, but I got a little lost.” The next day, just before it’s light, the prince is getting ready to go hunting; galloped into the forest, separated from the hunters and along the same path arrived at the white-stone palace. Again I stood at the crystal coffin all day, not taking my eyes off the dead beauty; I only returned home late at night. On the third day, on the fourth everything was the same, and so a whole week passed. “What happened to our prince? - say the hunters. “Let us, brothers, keep an eye on him, make sure that no harm happens.”

So the prince went hunting, released his dogs through the forest, separated from his retinue and headed his way to the white-stone palace; The hunters immediately follow him, come to the clearing, enter the palace - there is a crystal coffin in the chamber, a dead girl lies in the coffin, the prince stands in front of the girl. “Well, Your Highness, it’s not for nothing that you’ve been lost in the forest for a whole week! Now we won’t be able to leave here until the evening.” They surrounded the crystal coffin, looked at the girl, admired her beauty, and stood in one place from morning until late evening. When it got completely dark, the prince turned to the hunters: “Do me, brothers, a great service: take the coffin with the dead girl, bring it and place it in my bedroom; Yes, quietly, secretly, so that no one finds out about it, does not find out. I will reward you in every possible way, I will reward you with a golden treasury, like no one has rewarded you.” - “Your will is to favor; and we, Tsarevich, are happy to serve you anyway!” - said the hunters, picked up the crystal coffin, took it out into the courtyard, set it up on horseback and took it to the royal palace; They brought it and placed it in the prince’s bedroom.

From that very day the prince stopped even thinking about hunting; he sits at home, doesn’t leave his room anywhere - he keeps admiring the girl. “What happened to our son? - the queen thinks. “It’s been a long time, but he’s still sitting at home, doesn’t leave his room and doesn’t let anyone in.” Did sadness or melancholy set in, or did you feign some kind of illness? Let me go look at him.” The queen enters his bedroom and sees a crystal coffin. How and what? She asked and found out and immediately gave the order to bury that girl, as was customary, in the damp earth.

The prince began to cry, went into the garden, picked wonderful flowers, brought them back and began to comb the dead beauty’s brown hair and cover her head with flowers. Suddenly a magic hair fell out of her braid - the beauty opened her eyes, sighed, rose from the crystal coffin and said: “Oh, how long I slept!” The prince was incredibly happy, took her hand, led her to her father, to her mother. “God gave it to me,” he says! I can't live without her for a single minute. Allow me, dear father, and you, dear mother, allow me to get married.” - “Get married, son! We won’t go against God, and we can’t look for such beauty in the whole world!” Tsars never stop for anything: an honest feast on the same day and even for a wedding.

The prince married a merchant's daughter and lives with her - he couldn't be happier. Some time passed - she decided to go in her direction, to visit her father and brother; The prince, not averse to it, began to ask his father. “Okay,” says the king, “go, my dear children! You, prince, go on a detour by land, inspect all our lands and find out the order, and let your wife sail on the ship in a direct way.” So they prepared the ship for the voyage, dressed the sailors, appointed the initial general; The princess boarded the ship and went out to the open sea, and the prince went by land.

The leading general, seeing the beautiful princess, envied her beauty and began to flatter her; Why be afraid, he thinks, - after all, she is now in my hands, I do whatever I want! “Love me,” he says to the princess, “if you don’t love me, I’ll throw you into the sea!” The princess turned away, did not give him an answer, only burst into tears. One sailor overheard the general’s speeches, came to the princess in the evening and began to say: “Don’t cry, princess! Dress yourself in my dress, and I will put on yours; You go on deck, and I’ll stay in the cabin. Let the general throw me into the sea - I’m not afraid of that; Maybe I can handle it, I’ll swim to the pier: fortunately the land is close now!” They exchanged dresses; the princess went on deck, and the sailor lay down on her bed. At night, the leading general appeared in the cabin, grabbed the sailor and threw him into the sea. The sailor set off swimming and reached the shore by morning. The ship arrived at the pier, the sailors began to go ashore; The princess also went down, rushed to the market, bought herself a cook's clothes, dressed up as a cook and hired herself to serve in the kitchen for her own father.

A little later, the prince comes to the merchant. “Hello,” he says, “father! Accept your son-in-law, because I am married to your daughter. Where is she? Al hasn’t been there yet?” And then the initial general appears with a report: “So and so, Your Highness! A misfortune happened: the princess was standing on the deck, a storm arose, rocking began, her head began to spin - and before she could blink, the princess fell into the sea and drowned!” The prince strained and cried, but you can’t turn him back from the bottom of the sea; Apparently, this is her destiny! The prince stayed with his father-in-law for some time and ordered his retinue to prepare for departure; the merchant gave a big feast at parting; Merchants, boyars, and all his relatives gathered to see him: his brother, the evil old woman, and the chief general were there.

They drank, ate, cooled off; one of the guests says: “Listen, honest gentlemen! If you keep drinking and drinking, it won’t do any good; Let’s tell better stories.” - "OK OK! - they shouted from all sides. - Who will start? One doesn’t know how, the other is not good at it, and the third has lost his memory of wine. What should I do? The merchant clerk responded: “We have a new cook in the kitchen, he has traveled a lot in foreign lands, he has seen many different wonders and is such a master at telling fairy tales - guess what!” The merchant called that cook. “Sweat,” he says, “my guests!” The cook-princess answers him: “What should I tell you: a fairy tale or an incident?” - “Tell something that happened!” - “Perhaps, it’s possible to have a blast, only with this agreement: whoever interrupts me will get a plague in the forehead.”

Everyone agreed to this. And the princess began to tell everything that happened to her. “So and so,” he says, “the merchant had a daughter; the merchant went overseas and instructed his brother to look after the girl; uncle covets her beauty and does not give her a moment of peace...” And uncle hears that they are talking about him and says: “This, gentlemen, is not true!” - “Oh, don’t you think it’s true? Here's a plague to your forehead! " After that, it came to the stepmother, how she interrogated the magic mirror, and to the evil old woman, how she came to the heroes in the white stone palace - and the old woman and stepmother shouted in one voice: “What nonsense! This cannot be." The princess hit them on the forehead with a chumichka and began to tell how she lay in a crystal coffin, how the prince found her, revived her and married her, and how she went to visit her father.

The general realized that things were not going well, and asked the prince: “Let me go home; I have a headache!” - “Nothing, sit for a while!” The princess began to talk about the general; Well, he couldn’t bear it either. “All this,” he says, “is not true!” With a blow to his forehead, the princess threw off her chef’s dress and revealed herself to the prince: “I’m not a cook, I’m your lawful wife!” The prince was delighted, and so was the merchant; they rushed to hug and kiss her; and then they began to judge the court; the evil old woman and her uncle were shot at the gate, the stepmother-sorceress was tied to a stallion by the tail, the stallion flew into an open field and scattered her bones through the bushes, along the yarugs; The prince sent the general to hard labor, and in his place he gave a sailor, who saved the princess from trouble. From that time on, the prince, his wife and the merchant lived together - happily ever after.

Reading time: 4 minutes.

Once upon a time there lived a girl named Olya. She was no different from her friends. She, just like them, loved to eat ice cream, go to the cinema and collect photographs of beautiful actresses.

Olya studied well at school, she acquired knowledge easily, without stress.

Her parents loved her very much and did not refuse her anything. Everything was fine, but Olechka was unhappy.

She thought so. Olya dreamed that the girls from the neighboring house would be friends with her.

These girls did not attend school, but a gymnasium, wore beautiful uniforms to classes and spoke in a special way.

They had a funny lisp and slightly dragged out their vowels. So Olya decided to become like this.

It seemed to her that it was precisely these girls who enjoyed special honor and attention from most people. First of all, she told her parents that she was not interested in going to her old school, so her parents had to transfer her to a gymnasium.

Then Olya quarreled with all her old friends, changed her hairstyle, and began to talk differently. Now she too had a slight lisp and drawled her words.

It seemed that her dream had come true, but she noticed that such a change did not make her any happier.

On the contrary, now, instead of having fun playing ball with her friends or going to see a new play at the local theater, she sat for hours with new friends and looked at stupid magazines or listened to her new friends say nasty things about those girls who were not with her. near them.

Among other things, it was necessary to give up your favorite ice cream, because it contains a lot of calories and can put you on weight. If earlier she could easily communicate with boys, now she had to curl her lips, roll her eyes and, raising her head, walk away.

This continued until Olya somehow, completely by accident, took out her old mirror and decided to look into it.
Strange as it may sound, she did not see her image in it.

A tear-stained girl with sad eyes looked at her.
- Who are you? – Olya asked her.

I am the mirror fairy. You completely forgot about me. That's why I cry and feel sad.

Here's another thing, all this is fiction!
- No, just look at who you have turned into.

You are constantly rude to your parents, you quarreled with your best friends, and what did you get in return?
- I have a great life and I don't complain.

That’s how it is, but can eternal pretense be called life? You lost the love of your friends, but gained a soap bubble.

Think about it.
For several days Olya didn’t walk around like herself. She answered the teachers at school inappropriately, and was silent when her new friends asked her about something.

It was as if a curtain had fallen from her eyes, blocking the whole real world from her.

“We need to do something,” Olya decided.
First of all, she apologized to her parents for Lately behaved badly, was rude to them.

Then she asked her mother to help her bake a delicious pie, and then she called all her old friends and invited them to visit.

When everyone arrived, she, just like before her parents, asked them for forgiveness and promised to behave prudently in the future. Her friends were kind and easy-going girls, they quickly forgave Olya for her ridiculous behavior and soon everyone was having fun and sharing news, like in the good old days.

And then Olya invited everyone to the cafe for ice cream, and the girls happily agreed.
From that day on, Olya’s life returned to its old course.

However, she did not leave the gymnasium, because in principle, it doesn’t matter at all where you study, the main thing is to gain knowledge and develop your mind.

Several weeks flew by, and Olya again picked up the magic mirror.

She really wanted to know how the mirror fairy was doing. She saw cheerful girl who was sitting in a clearing surrounded by animals.

How are you, fairy?
- Everything is fine with me now, because you are now cheerful and have made peace with your parents and friends.

You know, I advise you to be on good terms with everyone.

This way you will be calmer, and even if someone offends you, do not be angry with him, but forgive him the way your friends have forgiven you.
- Yes, I understand, and I will gladly take your advice.

Olya waved goodbye to the fairy and a moment later saw her reflection in the mirror.

Goodbye, good fairy, with your advice you helped me become truly happy.

Magic mirror

Magic mirror

Russian folktale

In a certain kingdom, in a certain state, there lived a widower merchant; he had a son, a daughter, and a brother... At one time, this merchant is going to go to foreign lands, buy various goods, takes his son with him, and leaves his daughter at home; he calls his brother and says to him:

I entrust you, dear brother, with my entire house and household and earnestly ask: look after my daughter more closely, teach her to read and write, and do not allow her to be spoiled!

After that, the merchant said goodbye to his brother and daughter and set off on his journey. And the merchant’s daughter was already old and of such indescribable beauty that even if you walked around the world, you wouldn’t find another like her! An unclean thought came into his uncle’s head, it gave him no rest day or night, and he began to pester the red maiden.

“Or,” he says, “commit a sin to me, or you won’t live in the world; and I myself will disappear and kill you!..

Once a girl went to the bathhouse, her uncle followed her - just through the door, she grabbed a basin full of boiling water and doused him from head to toe. He lay there for three weeks and barely recovered; terrible hatred gnawed at his heart, and he began to think: how to laugh off this ridicule? I thought and thought, and finally wrote a letter to my brother: your daughter is doing bad things, wandering around other people’s yards, doesn’t spend the night at home and doesn’t listen to me. The merchant received this letter, read it and became very angry; says to his son:

Your sister has disgraced the whole house! I don’t want to have mercy on her: go this very minute, chop the scoundrel into small pieces and bring her heart with this knife. Let good people not laugh at our kind-tribe!

The son took a sharp knife and went home; I arrived in my hometown on the sly, without telling anyone, and began to scout around: how does such and such a merchant’s daughter live? Everyone praises her with one voice - they cannot boast enough: she is quiet, and modest, and knows God, and listens to good people. Having found out everything, he went to his sister; she was delighted, rushed to meet him, hugs him, kisses him:

Dear brother! How did the Lord bring you? What is our dear father?

Oh, dear sister, don’t rush to rejoice. My arrival is not good: my father sent me and ordered your white body to be chopped into small pieces, your heart to be taken out and delivered to him on this knife.

My sister started crying.

“My God,” he says, “why such disfavor?

But for what! - the brother answered and told her about his uncle’s letter.

Ah, brother, I am not guilty of anything!

The merchant's son listened to how and what happened and said:

Don't cry, sister! I myself know that you are not guilty, and even though the priest did not order you to accept any excuses, I still don’t want to execute you. You’d better get ready and leave your father’s house wherever you look; God will not leave you!

The merchant's daughter did not think long, got ready for the journey, said goodbye to her brother and went, where she herself does not know. And her brother killed a yard dog, took out the heart, put it on a sharp knife and took it to his father. Gives him a dog's heart:

“So and so,” he says, “on your parental orders, I executed my sister.”

Come on! Dog's death! - answered the father.

How long or how short did the red maiden wander around the white world, and finally entered a dense, dense forest: from behind the tall trees the sky was barely visible. She began to walk through this forest and accidentally came out into a wide clearing; in this clearing there is a white stone palace, around the palace there is an iron lattice.

Let me, the girl thinks, I’ll go into this palace, not everyone is evil, maybe the worst will happen!

She enters the chambers - there is not a human soul in the chambers; I was about to turn back - suddenly two powerful heroes galloped into the courtyard, entered the palace, saw the girl and said:

Hello beauty!

Hello, honest knights!

“Here, brother,” said one hero to another, “you and I were grieving that there was no one to manage our house; and God sent us a sister.

The heroes left the merchant's daughter to live with them, called her their own sister, gave her the keys and made her the mistress of the whole house; then they took out sharp sabers, pressed them against each other’s chests and made the following agreement:

If one of us dares to encroach on his sister, then we will cut him down without mercy with this very saber.

Here is a red maiden living with two heroes; and her father bought overseas goods, returned home and a little later married another wife. This merchant's wife was of indescribable beauty and had a magic mirror; look in the mirror - you will immediately find out where everything is being done. Once the heroes gathered to hunt and punished their sister:

Look, don’t let anyone in until we arrive!

They said goodbye to her and left. At this very time, the merchant’s wife looked into the mirror, admired her beauty and said:

There is no more beautiful me in the world!

And the mirror in response:

You are good - no doubt about it! And you have a stepdaughter, she lives with two heroes in a dense forest - she’s even more beautiful!

The stepmother did not like these speeches and immediately called the evil old woman to her.

Here,” he says, “here’s a ring for you; go into the dense forest, in that forest there is a white-stone palace, my stepdaughter lives in the palace; bow to her and give her this ring - say: brother sent it as a souvenir!

The old woman took the ring and went where she was told; comes to the white-stone palace, the red maiden saw her, ran out to meet her - she wanted, therefore, to try for news from her native side.

Hello, grandma! How did God bring you? Is everyone alive and well?

They live and chew bread! My brother asked me to check on your health and sent me a ring as a gift; come on, show off!

The girl is so happy, so glad that it’s impossible to tell; She brought the old woman into the room, treated her to all sorts of snacks and drinks, and ordered her brother to bow deeply. After an hour, the old woman trudged back, and the girl began to admire the ring and decided to put it on her finger; put it on - and at that very moment she fell dead.

Two heroes arrive, enter the chambers, but the sister does not greet them: what is it? We looked into her bedroom; and she lies dead, doesn’t say a word. The heroes were inflamed: what was most beautiful was that death suddenly took hold!

It is necessary, they say, to put her in new clothes and put her in a coffin.

They began to clean up, and noticed one ring on the red girl’s hand:

Is it really possible to bury her with this ring? Let me take a picture and leave it as a souvenir.

As soon as he took off the ring, the red maiden immediately opened her eyes, sighed and came to life.

What happened to you, sister? Didn't anyone come to see you? - the heroes ask.

An old lady I knew from home came in and brought me a ring.

Oh, how naughty you are! After all, it was not for nothing that we punished you so that you wouldn’t let anyone into the house without us. Make sure you don't do this next time!

After some time, the merchant's wife looked into her mirror and found out that her stepdaughter was still alive and beautiful; she called the old woman, gave her a ribbon and said:

Go to the white stone palace where my stepdaughter lives and give her this gift; say: brother sent!

Again the old woman came to the red maiden, told her about three boxes of different things and gave her the ribbon. The girl was delighted, tied a ribbon around her neck - and at that very moment fell onto the bed, dead. The heroes came from the hunt, looked - my sister was lying dead, they began to put her in new outfits and as soon as they took off the ribbon, she immediately opened her eyes, sighed and came to life.

What's wrong with you, sister? Was there an old woman again?

“Yes,” he says, “an old woman from my native land came and brought me a ribbon.”

Oh, what are you! After all, we asked you: don’t accept anyone without us!

Sorry, dear brothers! I couldn’t stand it, I wanted to hear news from home.

A few more days passed - the merchant's wife looked in the mirror: her stepdaughter was alive again. She called the old woman.

Just a hair's breadth, he says! Go to your stepdaughter, be sure to kill her!

The old woman took advantage of the time when the heroes went hunting, and came to the white stone palace; The red maiden saw her through the window, could not stand it, ran out to meet her:

Hello, grandma! How does God have mercy on you?

As long as you're alive, my dear! I was wandering around the world and came here to visit you.

The red maiden brought her into the room, treated her to all sorts of snacks and drinks, asked about her relatives and ordered her to bow to her brother.

“Okay,” says the old woman, “I will bow.” But you, my dear, have no one to look for tea in your head? Let me look.

Look, grandma!

She began to look in the head of the red maiden and wove a magic hair into her braid; As soon as she wove this hair, the girl at that very moment became dead. The old woman grinned evilly and left quickly so that no one would catch her or see her.

The heroes arrive, enter the rooms - the sister lies dead; For a long time they peered and looked closely to see if there was anything superfluous on it? No, you can't see anything! So they made a crystal coffin - so wonderful that you couldn’t even think of it, couldn’t imagine it, only say it in a fairy tale; they dressed the merchant's daughter in a shiny dress, like a bride to the crown, and placed her in a crystal coffin; That coffin was placed in the middle of the large chamber, and above it they placed a canopy of red velvet with diamond tassels with gold fringes, and twelve lamps were hung on twelve crystal pillars. After that, the heroes burst into burning tears; They were overcome with great melancholy.

What, they say, do we need to live on in this world? Let's go decide for ourselves!

They hugged, said goodbye to each other, went out onto the high balcony, held hands and rushed down; hit sharp stones and ended their lives.

Many, many years have passed. It happened that one prince was out hunting; He drove into a dense forest, sent his dogs loose in different directions, separated from the hunters and rode alone along a dead path. He drove and drove, and there was a clearing in front of him, in the clearing there was a white stone palace. The prince dismounted from his horse, climbed the stairs, and began to inspect the chambers; Everywhere the decorations are rich, luxurious, but the owner’s hand is not visible on anything: everything was abandoned a long time ago, everything was neglected! In one chamber there is a crystal coffin, and in the coffin lies a dead girl of indescribable beauty: there is a blush on her cheeks, a smile on her lips, as if she were alive, she is sleeping.

The prince approached, looked at the girl, and remained in place, as if an invisible force was holding him. He stands there from morning until late evening, unable to take his eyes off, anxiety in his heart: he was riveted by a girl’s beauty - wonderful, unprecedented, which cannot be found anywhere else in the whole world! And hunters have been looking for him for a long time; They were already scouring the forest, blowing trumpets, and raising voices - the prince was standing at the crystal coffin, hearing nothing. The sun set, the darkness deepened, and only then did he come to his senses - he kissed the dead girl and drove back.

Oh, your highness, where have you been? - the hunters ask.

I was chasing the beast, but got a little lost.

The next day, just before it’s light, the prince is getting ready to go hunting; galloped into the forest, separated from the hunters and along the same path arrived at the white-stone palace. Again I stood at the crystal coffin all day, not taking my eyes off the dead beauty; I only returned home late at night. On the third day, on the fourth everything was the same, and so a whole week passed.

What happened to our prince? - say the hunters. “Let us, brothers, keep an eye on him, make sure that nothing bad happens.”

So the prince went hunting, released his dogs through the forest, separated from his retinue and headed his way to the white-stone palace; The hunters immediately follow him, come to the clearing, enter the palace - there is a crystal coffin in the chamber, a dead girl lies in the coffin, the prince stands in front of the girl.

Well, your Highness, it’s not for nothing that you spent a whole week lost in the forest! Now we won’t be able to leave here until the evening.

They surrounded the crystal coffin, looked at the girl, admired her beauty, and stood in one place from morning until late evening. When it got completely dark, the prince turned to the hunters:

Do me, brothers, a great service: take the coffin with the dead girl, bring it and place it in my bedroom; Yes, quietly, secretly, so that no one finds out about it, does not find out. I will reward you in every possible way, I will reward you with a golden treasury, like no one has rewarded you.

Your will is to favor; and we, prince, are happy to serve you anyway! - said the hunters, picked up the crystal coffin, took it out into the courtyard, set it up on horseback and took it to the royal palace; They brought it and placed it in the prince’s bedroom.

From that very day the prince stopped even thinking about hunting; he sits at home, doesn’t leave his room anywhere - he keeps admiring the girl.

What happened to our son? - the queen thinks. “It’s been a long time, but he’s still sitting at home, doesn’t leave his room and doesn’t let anyone in.” Did sadness or melancholy set in, or did you feign some kind of illness? Let me go look at him.

The queen enters his bedroom and sees a crystal coffin. How and what? She asked and found out and immediately gave the order to bury that girl, as was customary, in the damp earth.

The prince began to cry, went into the garden, picked wonderful flowers, brought them back and began to comb the dead beauty’s brown hair and cover her head with flowers. Suddenly a magic hair fell out of her braid - the beauty opened her eyes, sighed, rose from the crystal coffin and said:

Oh, how I slept for a long time!

The prince was incredibly happy, took her hand, led her to her father, to her mother.

“God gave it to me,” he says! I can't live without her for a single minute. Allow me, dear father, and you, dear mother, allow me to get married.

Get married, son! Let’s not go against God, and we can’t look for such beauty in the whole world!

Tsars never stop for anything: an honest feast on the same day and even for a wedding.

The prince married a merchant's daughter and lives with her - he couldn't be happier. Some time passed - she decided to go in her direction, to visit her father and brother; The prince, not averse to it, began to ask his father.

“Okay,” says the king, “go, my dear children!” You, prince, go on a detour by land, inspect all our lands and find out the order, and let your wife sail on the ship in a direct way.

So they prepared the ship for the voyage, dressed the sailors, appointed the initial general; The princess boarded the ship and went out to the open sea, and the prince went by land.

The leading general, seeing the beautiful princess, envied her beauty and began to flatter her; Why be afraid, he thinks, - after all, she is now in my hands, I do whatever I want!

Love me,” he says to the princess, “if you don’t love me, I’ll throw you into the sea!”

The princess turned away, did not give him an answer, only burst into tears. One sailor overheard the general’s speeches, came to the princess in the evening and began to say:

Don't cry, princess! Dress yourself in my dress, and I will put on yours; You go on deck, and I’ll stay in the cabin. Let the general throw me into the sea - I’m not afraid of that; Maybe I can handle it and swim to the pier: fortunately the land is close now!

They exchanged dresses; the princess went on deck, and the sailor lay down on her bed. At night, the leading general appeared in the cabin, grabbed the sailor and threw him into the sea. The sailor set off swimming and reached the shore by morning. The ship arrived at the pier, the sailors began to go ashore; The princess also went down, rushed to the market, bought herself a cook's clothes, dressed up as a cook and hired herself to serve in the kitchen for her own father.

A little later, the prince comes to the merchant.

“Hello,” he says, “father!” Accept your son-in-law, because I am married to your daughter. Where is she? Have you been to Al yet?

And here the initial general with a report appears:

So and so, your highness! A misfortune happened: the princess was standing on the deck, a storm arose, rocking began, her head began to spin - and before she could blink, the princess fell into the sea and drowned!

The prince strained and cried, but you can’t turn him back from the bottom of the sea; Apparently, this is her destiny! The prince stayed with his father-in-law for some time and ordered his retinue to prepare for departure; the merchant gave a big feast at parting; Merchants, boyars, and all his relatives gathered to see him: his brother, the evil old woman, and the chief general were there.

They drank, ate, cooled off; one of the guests says:

Listen, honest gentlemen! If you keep drinking and drinking, it won’t do any good; Let's better tell fairy tales.

OK OK! - they shouted from all sides. - Who will start?

One doesn’t know how, the other is not good at it, and the third has lost his memory of wine. What should I do? The merchant clerk responded:

We have a new cook in our kitchen, he has traveled a lot in foreign lands, seen many all sorts of marvels and is such a master at telling fairy tales - guess what!

The merchant called that cook.

Amuse my guests, he says!

The cook-princess answers him:

What should I tell you: a fairy tale or a true story?

Say something that happened!

Perhaps, it’s possible to have a blast, only with this agreement: whoever interrupts me will get a plague in the forehead.

Everyone agreed to this. And the princess began to tell everything that happened to her.

So and so,” he says, “the merchant had a daughter; the merchant went overseas and instructed his brother to look after the girl; Uncle covets her beauty and does not give her a moment of peace...

And my uncle hears that they are talking about him and says:

This, gentlemen, is not true!

Oh, don't you think it's true? Here's a plague to your forehead!

After that, it came to the stepmother, how she interrogated the magic mirror, and to the evil old woman, how she came to the heroes in the white stone palace - and the old woman and stepmother shouted in one voice:

What nonsense! This can't be true.

The princess hit them on the forehead with a chumichka and began to tell how she lay in a crystal coffin, how the prince found her, revived her and married her, and how she went to visit her father.

The general realized that things were not going well, and asked the prince:

Let me go home; I have a headache!

No problem, sit down for a while!

The princess began to talk about the general; Well, he couldn’t bear it either.

All this, he says, is not true!

With a blow to his forehead, the princess threw off her chef's dress and revealed herself to the prince:

I'm not a cook, I'm your legal wife!

The prince was delighted, and so was the merchant; they rushed to hug and kiss her; and then they began to judge the court; the evil old woman and her uncle were shot at the gate, the stepmother-sorceress was tied to a stallion by the tail, the stallion flew into an open field and scattered her bones through the bushes, along the yarugs; The prince sent the general to hard labor, and in his place he gave a sailor, who saved the princess from trouble. From that time on, the prince, his wife and the merchant lived together - happily ever after.

Elena Tsymbal
Fairy tale “Mirror” for a performance with older preschoolers

Fairy tale« Mirror»

Characters:

Storyteller, Girl, hare Proshka, Crow, Mole, Hedgehog, Goose, Squirrel1, Squirrel2, Teddy Bear

The girl went for a walk in the forest. Fashionably dressed (blue dress, blue knee socks, red sandals, she has a red handbag in her hands, and her: mirror, lipstick and candy. And the hare Proshka was sleeping. A girl walked along the path and sang:

“Who will praise me best,

he will receive sweet candy!”

Proshka: What? I ran towards the sound

Crow - I wonder where Proshka ran to? I flew to have a look.

A girl walks through the forest and sings:

“What a boring forest, it’s just a laugh.

There is nothing good about it.

Who will praise me best?

he will receive sweet candy!”

Crow: Hello, beauty! And who is this little one? You are my golden one! Well, where is your candy?

Girl - Right here. She took lipstick out of her purse and painted her lips - Am I small? And, offended, she moved on.

Crow: As you know, we crows live for 300 years.

Girl: No, we don’t know, we haven’t passed the crows yet. Wonderful weather isn't it?

Proshka - Shoo. Shoo, shoo. This is my girl, this is my candy!

Crow - Interesting! Squirrels: profitable business! What we get is in half. Whispers in everyone's ear (bear, hedgehog, goose, mole)

Mole: But how can I see her, I’m blind.

Crow: It's okay, you'll hear her. Stand here!

The girl sings

“What a boring forest, it’s just a laugh

There is nothing good about it.

Who will praise me best?

he will receive sweet candy!”

Proshka: You are the kindest, the fattest!

(The girl snorted)

Proshka: Oh no, no, that’s not it...

Squirrels: What a wonderful dress!

Bear: What a beauty!

Goose: What sandals she has, what bows she has!

Mole Proshke: Listen child, you are as beautiful as the light of dawn, you have the biggest eyes in the world. You are a very beautiful girl!

Proshka: Who!

Mole: I'm sorry, he's leaving.

And Proshka stops him: Wait, wait, what are you doing? said about the eyes?

Mole: I said that they are the largest in the world.

Proshka: That's right, you're a genius. If a girl gives me candy, you get half!

Crow: Fi, what a dream!

Proshka: I came up with an idea, give me some candy. You have the biggest eyes in the world!

Girl: And what else?

Proshka: You have the biggest eyelashes in the world!

Girl: This is very good. And what else? Girl opens her purse

Belka1: Oh, what a pretentious one! Girl takes out candy

Belka2: Oh, now she’ll give him the candy!

Girl: And what else?

Proshka: You, you...

Crow: Ears!

Proshka: You have the biggest ears! No no no no ears. Girl puts candy in her purse

Crow: Nose, nose!

Proshka: You have the biggest nose in the world The girl slammed her purse

Crow laughs: ha ha ha

The hare Proshka follows girl: I have never eaten sweets in my life, I really want to.

A hedgehog is approaching.

The girl is a hedgehog: Whoever praises me best will receive a big candy! I touched the hedgehog and pricked myself.

Girl: Oh, nasty oh, mom! Crying

Hedgehog: oh you capricious girl, give me your hand here. Like this. And you are really beautiful!

Proshka: Yes, yes, now you are really beautiful for some reason.

Girl: It's because I'm crying, right?

Hedgehog: No, it's because you don't make faces!

All: What a good, pretty girl!

Crow: Eh, traitors!

Hare: I love candy so much, I love it so much, but I’ve never eaten it in my life.

Hedgehog: Actually, give Proshka the candy and give us mirror.

The hare Proshka divides on a stump candy: So far it’s for me, and this is for the mole, huh?

The crow distracts Proshka and takes away the candy.

Hedgehog: Proshka, Proshka! Go look in mirror!

Girl: Proshka, isn’t it delicious? Didn't you like the candy?

Proshka: I really liked it. It is very useful for the body! Looks in mirror: Who is that there?

Hedgehog: It's you!

Proshka: I think I look a lot like this hippopotamus. They laugh.

Crow: Who will praise me best

He will receive a big sweet candy

Will you really not praise me at all? Well, at least a little!

Are you a boy or are you a girl! After all, you love candy, I know!

And besides, sweets are so good for the body, huh?

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The Tale of Magic Mirrors

In one kingdom, a little girl was born into a fisherman's family. On the eve of her birth, an unknown old woman wandered into a fishing village in an old, patched dress, with a large gnarled staff in her hands and a skinny sack over her shoulders. At night, only in the fisherman's hut, where they were waiting for the child, was there a light on, and it was on this hut that the old woman knocked and asked to spend the night.

- What! - said the fisherman. “It’s cramped here and it smells like fish.” Besides, the baby is about to be born. But an old woman can’t sleep on the street. Come on in, we'll find a place for you.

“Thank you, fisherman,” said the old woman. – Human kindness never seeks gratitude and always finds it. Your daughter will be happy in life.

With these words, the old woman entered the hut, and the fisherman made a bed for her by the fireplace. By morning, a little girl was born, and her parents named her Kari. The old woman looked tenderly at the child, took her skinny bag, took out three small mirrors and said to the fisherman:

– I want to give your daughter a gift. These mirrors are magical. But she will find out what their magic is when she grows up.

The fisherman thanked the old woman and with some apprehension took the mirrors she offered. When the old woman left, he looked into each of them, but everywhere he saw only his bearded face with skin roughened by the sea wind. The fisherman shrugged and thought: “The old lady said they were magical, but, in my opinion, these are just ordinary mirrors.” And he put them far away on the shelf.

Sixteen years have passed. The fisherman and his wife forgot about the gift that was given by an unknown old woman to their daughter Kari on the day of her birth, and little Kari turned into a lovely and lively girl who loved to have fun, put on beautiful clothes and admire her reflection in the old cracked mirror.

One day, a huge and very beautiful ship dropped anchor near the shore opposite a fishing village. The boat left the ship and moored to the shore. People in rich clothes, hats with bright feathers and swords on their sides descended onto the sand. It was immediately clear that these were noble nobles. Among them stood out a tall and handsome young man with intelligent and slightly sad eyes. Fishermen went ashore to meet unusual guests. Kari stood a little further away in the crowd of fishermen's daughters and looked at the newcomers with all her eyes. When she looked at the beautiful young man, her heart sank.

Her father, as the leader among the fishermen, respectfully approached the standing sailors.

– Greetings, brave and hardworking fishermen! - said the tall young man. “I am Prince Agora and I sailed here with my companions at the behest of my mother, the great queen and sorceress. She ordered me to find a bride among your daughters.

- Welcome! - answered the old fisherman. – Among our daughters there are many beautiful girls. Choose any of them. Each will consider it an honor to become the bride of a prince from a distant country.

The prince and his entourage settled in a fishing village. Every day Prince Agor went from house to house, met the fishermen’s daughters, gave them gifts, was very polite and kind, but his eyes still remained sad.

All the girls of the village tried their best to please the prince, dressed in their best clothes, treated him to the dishes they had prepared, and smiled at him. Needless to say, poor Kari fell in love with the prince from the first moment and often quietly watched him as he wandered along the coastal rocks or sat thoughtfully on a stone by the sea. She, too, like the others, wanted to please the prince, but he had not yet entered their hut.

One day Kari was left at home alone. Having placed an old mirror with a crack on the table, she admired herself in it and combed her long golden hair. Suddenly, a small kitten, playing, caught the hem of her dress and tore it slightly. Kari got terribly angry and, grabbing her wooden shoe, swung at the kitten. He got scared and jumped onto the table, and Kari, trying to spank him with her shoe, missed, and the blow landed right on the mirror! It's ding! - it split.

Kari decided to look to see if there were any more mirrors in the house, and on the top shelf in the closet she found three small mirrors: one with reverse side one was green, another was red, and the third was blue.

Kari looked in the green mirror and saw her pretty face with huge gray eyes and plump lips. “How beautiful I am! – Kari thought and thought again: “I wonder what the prince thinks of me?” Do I seem beautiful to him? She brought the red mirror to her face and almost dropped it in surprise. The reflection was completely different! Fuzzy, as if in a fog, blurry. “How strange,” Kari thought. – These are some extraordinary mirrors. What will I see in the third mirror? She looked into the blue mirror and was even more surprised. From there, the face of some other girl looked at her (at first it seemed so to her): contemptuously narrowed eyes, capriciously swollen lips, an unpleasant grin. Kari looked closer and saw familiar features. It was her face, but very changed.

-What kind of miracles? – she exclaimed out loud. – Who will explain this to me?

Kari looked down and saw a kitten on the floor. He washed himself with his paw and calmly said in a human voice:

– These are magic mirrors given to you by the good witch on your birthday. In the green mirror you see yourself as you imagine yourself. Red reflects how other people see you. It’s worth making a guess through whose eyes you want to look at yourself - and you’re welcome! And in the blue mirror is a reflection of who you really are.

After washing himself, the kitten jumped onto the windowsill.

– But why do I have such a different appearance in the mirrors? – Kari asked confused.

“Magic mirrors do not reflect appearance,” the kitten said, purring and clarified: “Not only appearance.”

He yawned and jumped out of the open window...

“Wait, dad,” Julia interrupted the story. – It’s not clear to me. Why was Kari’s reflection in the red mirror fuzzy and foggy?

– And in whose eyes was Kari reflected at that moment?

- Well... in the eyes of the prince. She thought about him when she looked in this mirror.

- Right. Does the prince know her intimately? Does she know whether she is good or bad, kind or evil?

- Of course not! He may have only seen her once - on the shore when he arrived.

– Well, that’s why the reflection is still unclear.

Julia was silent for a while, thinking about something. Then she said:

- A! Now I understand why she is so... unpleasant in the blue mirror.

- Well, why not, Julia?

- Because, although her face is beautiful, in reality she is still not very kind: she almost beat a kitten with a wooden shoe and generally... imagines.

- Fine. We figured it out a little. Shall we continue?

The next day, Prince Agor came to visit Kari's parents' hut. Her mother baked a delicious cake and treated it to the prince and his companions. Kari sat at the table opposite the prince and was very worried. Her face became even more beautiful with a bright blush. The prince talked about his travels and, looking at Kari, sometimes smiled a little. Kari couldn't say a word. Towards the end of the conversation, the old fisherman - Kari's father asked Agora:

– How did you like the girls in our village, prince? For example, my neighbor's daughter - Penta? Really, beauty? And her sister Tora is the kindest soul!

Her father's words made Kari very angry and frightened: what if the prince really liked these girls? But she – Kari – is better! And although Penta and Tora were her friends, Kari hated them at that moment, and suddenly a loud exclamation escaped her:

- They are both complete fools!

After these harsh words, everyone fell silent. Prince Agor looked with surprise and sadness at Kari, who was already embarrassed and regretted what she had said. The guests quickly said goodbye and left, and Kari grabbed her magic mirrors, ran out of the house and hid in the rocks, where no one could see her. She looked in each mirror and burst into tears. The red mirror showed how Prince Agor now imagines her: an evil, selfish, proud woman - much worse than even her real portrait in the blue mirror was. Kari blamed herself for her stupid and thoughtless words, for her wayward character, and in the green mirror the face of the carefree beauty gradually melted away. And the more Kari scolded herself, the more bad she found in herself, the uglier her reflection in the green mirror became. After all, it showed the image that a person has of himself. Several days passed. Prince Agor has already visited all the houses in the fishing village, met all the girls, but apparently has not yet made his choice. None of the fishermen's daughters could boast special attention prince. Every evening the youth of the village organized festive festivities, songs and dances. But even though the prince sang and danced with everyone, talked freely and easily with old people, girls, and their parents, an incomprehensible sadness shone in the very depths of his eyes. Kari also talked to him several times and even danced, but every evening, looking into the treasured red mirror, she saw there a proud and slightly stupid girl, that is, the way Prince Agor saw her. True, now this reflection has not become so sharp and some pleasant features have even appeared in it, but it was not at all the same. After all, Kari dreamed that the prince would love her as much as she loved him. Sometimes she mentally asked the red mirror to show how her parents saw her, and immediately the reflection became cute, cheerful and carefree - much better than what seemed to the prince. But if she tried to please him and seem better than she really was, then in the evening, with the help of a red mirror, she learned with bitterness that her image in the prince’s eyes had faded and even turned ugly. She stopped trying to please Agora and only looked at him from afar, and her heart overflowed with tenderness. More days passed. Her parents noticed that Kari had changed. She was no longer lazy to do homework, became more attentive to her parents and friendly with her friends, although she could sit for hours in thought. Often she affectionately stroked the kitten's fluffy fur and talked to him, but in response he only purred, as if he had never been able to speak humanly. Somehow she was surprised to discover that her reflections in the green mirror, that is, the image that she herself imagined, and in the blue one, that is, her real image, became very similar. One day the day came when, at the end of the usual celebration, Prince Agor announced to the residents of the village that he was saying goodbye to them. The music stopped, the fun, dancing and laughter stopped. Everyone was upset because they had fallen in love with the kind and noble prince. In the silence that followed, Agor said:

– I’m very sorry to part with you. But my time expired, and I was unable to fulfill the instructions of my mother the queen.

– Don’t we have worthy brides? – one of the fishermen asked with surprise and disappointment.

– Yes, but I was looking for only one, whose image my mother showed me and to whom I immediately gave my heart. “She should have been here, but I didn’t find her,” the prince answered sadly. That night Kari could not sleep from tears and, quietly leaving the house, went to wander to the seashore. Suddenly she saw in the darkness a group of people and among them a prince, who were walking towards a huge rock, whose ledges went deep into the sea. Kari followed them silently. What she saw amazed and frightened her. At the lowest ledge of the rock, against which the sea waves were beating, the people stopped, and one of them drove a large iron ring into a crack in the stone wall. Prince Agora was chained to this ring, entangling his arms and legs with heavy chains. One of the people accompanying the prince leaned towards him and said sadly:

- Farewell, prince. It really hurts us to do this. But we can't help you.

“Farewell, friends,” answered Agor, his voice was strong, but full of deep sadness. – You did everything you could. Tell my mother that I ask her forgiveness for failing to fulfill her order. The people - and these were the prince's companions from the ship - silently left the gloomy rock. Agor was left alone sitting on the ledge. He leaned his back against the stone wall and froze, as if expecting something. Kari came out from behind the bushes, where she had been hiding before, and rushed to the prince. - I will free you! – she exclaimed hotly.

- Who are you? – Agor turned sharply. - Ah, Kari! No, you can't set me free. Get out of here quickly, midnight is approaching...

- I won’t leave, I’ll help!

- No! - Agor said sternly. “If you don’t leave, you will die with me.” And the Dragon only needs me.

- To the dragon? Which Dragon? I do not understand anything!

“Okay, I’ll explain everything to you, after that you’ll leave.” Since childhood, a terrible spell has been cast on me. On this day - the day of my twentieth birthday - I must be sacrificed to the evil Dragon. Only Love can break this spell, my love for one girl, whose image my mother showed me in her magic mirror. My mother - the queen and the sorceress - told me that I would find this girl in your fishing village, and when I recognize her, at that very moment the evil spell will fall, and a terrible spell will be lifted from me. I looked for her for a long time, but did not find her. And now I will become a victim of the Dragon, and you must leave as soon as possible.

- Let's run away from here together!

- No. The spell cannot be broken, otherwise great troubles will befall the entire kingdom.

- Is there another way to save you?

– Yes... But it’s impossible!

- Tell me!

- No. I will not say. Go away, Kari, I beg you!

Kari knelt next to the prince and cried from her powerlessness. At that moment, something soft and fluffy rubbed against her leg. It was a kitten.

“The prince won’t tell you, Kari,” he purred. – Because he doesn’t want salvation at such a price. To remove evil spells you need to...

His last words drowned out the roar and splash of boiling water. Lightning struck from the black thunderclouds. Thunder roared. From the depths of the sea rose the huge black body of the Dragon, covered with dimly shimmering bronze scales. A terrible, ugly head turned in their direction and looked at them with red, evil eyes. Kari was very scared. She curled up into a ball and froze.

- Run, Kari! – Prince Agor shouted, trying to get to his feet. The chains got in his way.

The girl woke up from fear and looked at him... She loved him. She knew a way to save him.

Kari jumped up and rushed to the very edge of the ledge, onto which salty spray flew from the furious sea waves.

- Here I am! – she shouted loudly. - Take me, Dragon! I sacrifice myself in place of Prince Agora!

- Don't you dare, Kari! - the prince shouted and rushed towards her, breaking the chains that bound him.

She turned around, and in the uneven light of the sparkling lightning he saw her beautiful face.

- You! It's you! I recognized you! The same girl from my mother's magic mirror! - Prince Agor exclaimed.

At the same moment, a terrible roar was heard. It was the Dragon who shouted in helpless rage, who suddenly began to crumble, as if made of sand, and soon all disappeared, dissolved under the surface of the sea. After a few seconds, the waves calmed down, the lightning stopped flashing, the wind died down, and there was silence. The evil spell has dissipated. And on the ledge of the rock, holding hands, stood Kari and Prince Agor, with pieces of broken chains hanging from his arms and legs. A small kitten sat at their feet and, as if nothing had happened, licked its fur.

- How could I not recognize you right away? – the prince asked quietly.

“I couldn’t recognize myself in these mirrors,” Kari answered smiling and took out three of her precious mirrors from her pocket. - Certainly! - said the prince. “My sorceress mother, who turned into a beggar, gave these wonderful objects to the very girl I was looking for. Kari held all three magic mirrors in front of her - green, red and blue. And all three reflected the same face - beautiful, kind and happy.

Julia was silent in fascination. A dreamy smile wandered across her face.

- Dad, why did Kari have the same face at the end of the fairy tale in all three mirrors? – she finally asked.

– Try to answer this question yourself.

– Probably because she understood herself correctly. Yes? - Come on, come on, continue.

“She used to consider herself very good and beautiful, but in reality this was not entirely true. And then she changed, and...

“... and the image of herself that she had after her noble deed was very similar to her real image,” dad helped her finish the sentence.

- Yes. And Prince Agor now saw her the same way - kind and brave. Right?

- That's right, Yulenka.

– It’s a pity that I don’t have such mirrors. “I would always know who thinks what about me and what I really am,” Yulia said with a sigh.

– Such mirrors only exist in fairy tales. And we have to study ourselves, our actions, evaluate what we do and think. People who know how to give themselves a correct assessment have a correct self-image. They deserve respect because they respect themselves. We must strive for this, learn to understand ourselves, to be a true ruler of our Inner World.

Julia fell asleep and dreamed of the noble prince Agor and the beautiful girl Kari. She could not even imagine that the next day would mark the beginning of her amazing adventures, which would help her learn to understand herself and learn a lot about the extraordinary science of psychology.

16.02.2012

Anna

It doesn't hurt us all to see ourselves in such mirrors!
02.04.2012

Nadia

Well, yes, for some reason it’s true that a girl becomes “beautiful” if, out of self-hatred, she stops valuing her own life and dies for the sake of some prince, who is not at all clear what kind of person he is (in any case, not a word is said about his values), except that he is looking for such a sacrifice for the sake of his salvation. Super! The author of the parable urgently needs self-analysis!
02.04.2012

psychoanalysis, more precisely.
29.08.2012

Julia

A wonderful tale about self-sacrifice, true love, and well-deserved happiness.
Wonderful.
30.01.2014

Irina

Something inside Nadya became confused and darkened. We urgently look into the blue mirror. They say that with much knowledge comes many sorrows. I don’t remember if the word “self-sacrifice” is in the list of values...
08.06.2016

Olya

The idea of ​​self-sacrifice for the sake of the prince is imposed on the girls. Women are already constantly responsible for children, the budget, but men do not take and are not responsible for the family, and often for themselves!
22.11.2017

Maria

22.11.2017

Maria

The most interesting fairy tale, I and my whole family like it.

The Tale of Masha and the Magic Mirror

INTRODUCTION

I know, dear guys, that many of you would like to find yourself in a magical world. But in this world there are also dark, gloomy places where you find yourself - God forbid! This is the Bukhteevo Filthy Kingdom - unsightly, stinking, inhabited by evil spirits. This kingdom is ruled by Bukhtei, a swamp monster. And he takes the disobedient children, and only then turns them into his subjects. The monster cannot take obedient children; he does not have such power. And as soon as the child becomes rude and capricious, then Bukhtei notices him, with dark magic kindles the harmfulness in him, and as soon as a lot of malice accumulates in the child, he quickly pulls him towards himself.

So the girl Mashenka once became capricious and ended up in the Filthy Kingdom, and there, whether you like it or not, you have to do evil. Bukhtey assigned his favorite Malyavka to Masha, so that she could teach the girl harmful things. It was hard for Mashenka: from morning until night, she had to raise the little thorns, not seeing the white light. But it’s even harder to do real evil: to lure other children into the kingdom of Bukhteevo, to make evil out of good ones, and bad out of good ones. It’s one thing to be capricious, and another thing to become more evil than the real one. Mashenka didn’t want to, she began to think both day and night how to escape from the Filthy Kingdom and return home. The little mouse, who was snooping around everywhere, told the girl the way to salvation - she knew a lot. That path was to a white-trunked birch tree, enchanted, that there was one there, in the Filthy Kingdom there were swamps all around, and instead of trees there were dry snags. And that birch tree was not an easy one, the beautiful Forest Fairy turned into it to save the foolish children who foolishly ended up with Bukhtei.

Mashenka outwitted the terrible Bukhtey, outwitted the nasty Little One, got to the Forest Fairy, who saved the girl. Mashenka returned home as if there had never been a terrible incident in her life, and it turned out that while she had been tormented and suffered in the dark magical kingdom for many days and nights, only a minute had passed at home. So the mother didn’t notice anything, she was only surprised that her daughter suddenly stopped being mischievous and became obedient and compliant.

And Mashenka, of course, decided never to be capricious again in her life. Yes, it was so while she remembered about Bukhteev’s kingdom. And then the girl forgot about everything that happened to her. Fairy did her best. The good sorceress decided not to leave dark, terrible memories in the child’s soul. Maybe she made the right decision, or maybe not, but Mashenka, having forgotten everything, began to be capricious again.

Guys, I described this adventure in detail in a book called “The Tale of Masha and the Harm of Malyavka.” And what happened to Masha next, I’ll tell you now.

Mashenka’s birthday passed and she turned six years old! The birthday has passed, but the gifts remain, a whole mountain. Here is the long-awaited tablet! My beloved parents gave it as a gift, but they said “expensive, expensive.” They couldn't stand it! And Uncle Kolya, godfather, brought in such a huge bear! And even though she’s quite big, six years old, the bear is so soft! Let it be.

Mashenka is sitting on the crib, sorting through the gifts. I really want to sleep, my eyes are drooping, but I still can’t tear myself away from everything new. Suddenly she sees: among the other boxes there is a small box, made of birch bark, something strange, special. She looked more closely and gasped: that’s what’s special about the box - it shines. And the girl won’t remember whose gift it was?

She extended her hand to the strange thing and carefully touched it. To the touch - ordinary birch bark. She opened the box and saw that this mirror was shining. It’s small, it looks like a birch leaf. Masha looked at him, and immediately made a face, just like that, out of a good mood. But the face was not reflected in the mirror, but a girl of unprecedented beauty with braids appeared there, and the braids were green. This beauty looks at Masha and says:

- It’s not nice to make faces! And stupid!

She said and disappeared. And Masha appeared in the mirror, her mouth open in surprise. The girl immediately closed her mouth and let’s turn the mirror this way and that - look for the buttons. I couldn’t find any buttons and I thought: “I imagined this because I was tired, I watched too many cartoons today, I need to go to bed quickly.”

A girl is sleeping and has a strange dream. It’s as if the old beauty from the mirror is telling her:

- I, Masha, know you well, I know that you are a kind girl, but why haven’t you been listening to your grandmother lately, why are you offending?

- Why does she grumble all the time? - Masha is indignant. - And that’s not true for her, and that’s not true! She herself called me her happiness. Is it possible to scold happiness?

- Don’t invent nonsense! - the green-haired girl says sternly. - You need to listen to your grandmother, she is wise, but you are still small and don’t understand much. So you're arguing with me. And I, by the way, am also wise, I am a Fairy. And I didn’t come to you to argue. Know, girl: I already saved you from terrible trouble, even though you don’t remember it, and now I want to save you. And to prevent trouble from happening, listen to the mirror that I gave you for your birthday! - she said so and disappeared.

Masha woke up and was surprised by the strange dream. But then I remembered that I needed to go to kindergarten, immediately forgot about the dream and ran to persuade my grandmother not to go to kindergarten.

“Come on, I won’t go to kindergarten today,” he says. - It’s my birthday!

“It was my birthday yesterday,” the grandmother is surprised. - And today is a weekday.

- I don’t want a weekday, I want a holiday! I don’t want to go to kindergarten, I want to sit at home and play with new toys!

“Don’t be harmful, granddaughter,” the grandmother persuades. - I need to go to work.

- And you ask for time off! Yesterday I asked for time off - why can’t you do it today?

- Don’t talk nonsense yourself!!! You don't love me at all! You say “I love you”, but you lie! I’m not going to get ready for kindergarten! - the girl screams.

She ran to her room, puffing with anger. Suddenly he hears a thin, thin ringing somewhere nearby. Masha looks, and this mirror shines so much that it already rings. She took the mirror, and there, of course, was the Fairy from the dream. Shakes his head and says:

- Go, Masha, apologize to your grandmother, otherwise it will be bad for you.

“Real fairies don’t intimidate children,” Masha was indignant. - On the contrary, they do good miracles!

- I can do good miracles too. Just not before that now, I want to save you from big trouble. If you continue to be mischievous, you will end up in a terrible place.

“I’m not three years old for you to scare me with nonsense,” Masha gets angry. - And I’m not harmful at all!

“Look here,” says the Fairy in a malicious voice.

And Mashenka didn’t want to look, but she couldn’t resist looking in the mirror. And there seems to be a “video” about her. How she screams at her grandmother: she’s all red, her cheeks are shaking with anger, her mouth is twisted. Horror, and that's all!

Mashenka got angry, the mirror hit the floor - it sucked! Yes, he stamps his foot on it! The mirror rang and hummed, and Masha suddenly felt dizzy. The girl closed her eyes and squeezed her eyes shut. And when she opened it, she couldn’t understand anything. Where is her room with gifts? Where is dear grandma? She sits on a hummock in the swamp, and all around the place is swampy and smelly. The frightened girl was just about to cry and scream, but she didn’t have time. Nearby, a toad emerged from the green mud - a huge, enormous one, with fangs sticking out of the bulldog's mouth. The toad rolls its eyes, looking for the girl. And she lost her voice from horror, she can’t cry or scream, she just stares in fear at an unprecedented beast. And although Masha is not a coward, anyone in her place would be scared. And the bulldog toad looked for the girl, jumped onto a hummock, grabbed poor Masha and dragged her to God knows where.

She brought the poor thing to the swamp monster and threw it at his feet. He sits on a hummock, looking unkindly. The monster’s eyes are small, its snout is huge, its mouth is terrible, and it’s like a haystack. Suddenly he opens his mouth and mutters: “Bay-bay! Bay-bay! The smell from him is terrible! This spirit made the poor girl's eyes water and her head become foggy. And as the fog passed, then Masha remembered in an instant that she found herself again in the kingdom of Bukhteev. “How could I forget about the Filthy Kingdom, why didn’t I listen to the Wise Fairy, and what will happen to me now?” - she thinks with horror. Meanwhile, Bukhtey stood up to his full height , and his hand is a huge, yellow bone. He hit the ground with the bone: then the earth began to tremble, his subjects reached out to Bukhteev from all sides, and soon Mashenka found herself in the crowd of terrible inhabitants of Bukhteev’s kingdom. A lot of monsters came running: big, and small, and shaggy and hairless, and ugly, and not so much. And among the monsters, the harms crowded together, who used to be children, but became wild under Bukhtey’s subordination. The harm is thin, dirty, standing grinning - they are having fun.

Fairy tale.

Vsevolod Zinovievich Nestaiko

Vsevolod Zinovievich Nestaiko

The Magic Mirror, or the Stranger from the Land of Sunny Bunnies

Vsevolod Zinovievich Nestaiko

The Magic Mirror, or the Stranger from the Land of Sunny Bunnies

fairy tale story

Chapter one, in which you meet her, Valera and their friends and relatives. And also with teacher Ekaterina Stepanovna. Valera comes up with revenge

Vasya Kuvshin dreamed of becoming a hero. But not a single living soul knew about this. Not just in their fourth “B”, but in the world in general.

Because if anyone found out, the whole school would laugh.

Just look at Vasya. Frail, small. The neck is thin, the ears are large, and there are also glasses on his nose from Stovburcheniye. No, Vasya does not look like a hero. NO WAY.

Valera Kostenko, with whom Kuvshin sat at the same desk, did not dream of becoming a hero. Simply because Valera was a hero. Tall, slender, dark-haired, and there are quick little eyes darting in his eyes, indicating that desperate, bold ideas are constantly being born in Valerina’s head - to spray the girls with water, break a light bulb in the toilet, throw fat man Boris Borodyansky’s briefcase into a tree. Even the bully and hooligan Igor Gorenko, who beat everyone in the fourth “B”, never got on with Valera. And the sneaky Lyuska Babenchuk never “dropped” on Valera. Because Valera was, as they say, a hammer!

Vasya looked at Valera with delight and sincere envy.

And Valera looked at Vasya condescendingly and a little patronizingly.

The way all the heroes at school look at all the non-heroes.

True, some of Valerina’s exploits made Vasya shudder a little. For example, when Valera threw a flowerpot from the second floor or when he threw Boris Borodyansky’s brand new cap into a puddle.

But Negeri, as you know, always forgive heroes for their shortcomings. Well, what disadvantages can we talk about when a person is going to fly into space to other planets! For life.

Where Valera read that traveling to some other planet takes a lot of time. And the grandchildren and even great-grandchildren of the astronauts will be able to land there. Therefore, there is supposedly a secret instruction to take children into space.

Valera firmly decided to become one of the first cosmonauts school age. Vasya was shocked by his friend’s decision. And, of course, I also began to dream about space flights.

It was a gift that he was weak and sickly. Training is known to work wonders. For a whole week, secretly from everyone, Vasya picked up an electric iron and, chattering his teeth, wiped himself with a cold wet towel. The only obstacle on the way to other planets was, as the adults say, a family problem.

Vasya simply could not imagine what to do, how he would fly into space, his mother, aunt and sister.

Vasya loved his dearest mother, the gentlest Aunt Zina in the world, and the kindest sister Talochka in the world. And they loved him very much and were very worried when he stayed somewhere for even an hour. And what can I say, he will stay in space for the rest of his life!

Aunt Zina was always especially worried.

Vasilochka! “Every time she rushed to him with such a scream, as if he was coming not after school, but after traveling around the world.

Aunt Zina, my mother’s younger sister, was not yet married, did not have children of her own and, perhaps, that’s why she treated her nephew with infinite tenderness. She considered herself Vasya’s second mother and had certain reasons for this. Such a significant episode has been preserved in family history. When Vasya was just born and his father came to pick them up from the hospital, the fiery Aunt Zina, then seventeen years old, grabbed the baby in her arms and carried him to the car. A young doctor-trainee, who had just arrived, confused her with her mother (they were very similar) and politely asked: “Well, how are you feeling, mother?” - "Amazing!" - Aunt Zina burst into tears... And from then on she rightfully began to consider the jug her son.

No, Vasya simply could not imagine what would happen, how he would fly into space, with his mother, aunt and little sister Talochka.

But he didn't tell Valerie that.

Valera always laughed when Kuvshin remembered his mother, aunt and sister. Valera himself never mentioned his relatives, although they were also worried when Valera was detained somewhere. And mom, and dad, and grandparents, and Andrey’s brother. Vasya saw this with his own eyes more than once. For she and Valera lived in the same house, also on the same site.

They had been talking about space travel every day lately. And on the way to school, and during breaks, as well as in class.

Valera already knew that Vasya also dreams of flying into space, and did not object to this. It was even more interesting to dream together. Although Vasya in those dreams was assigned a secondary, auxiliary role. The main character, as always, was, of course, Valera. So today in math class...

It’s just a pity that it probably won’t be possible to play hockey in a rocket,” Valera muttered.

Yeah,” Vasya agreed.

Otherwise I would have definitely taken my hockey stick.

She is so biting to me! The best stick of all the clubs in the area, or even the region.

Pitcher and Kostenko! Stop talking! You are preventing class members from listening to new material.

But I’ll still take the soccer ball. You can play football on any planet. - And it won’t take up much space. If you lower...

Pitcher and Kostenko! Leave the class! Glechik at least teaches his lessons and doesn’t fail. And you, Kos Tenko, can’t get out of grades. And you talk in class! I don't know what you think. Tell grandpa to come to school. I have to have a serious talk with him.

Eh, Katerina Stepanovna, Katerina Stepanovna! What are you doing?

Again, poor Valera will walk around with a swollen red ear for two days. And hold on to your pants...

Grandfather Pavel Kharitonovich was involved in raising Valera. Dad was very busy, mom too. And the grandfather, who had just retired and spent his days “slaughtering a goat” in the yard on the playground with pensioners like him, took upon himself the upbringing of his grandson.

Pavel Kharitonovich did not have a pedagogical education and in the delicate matter of education he used old pre-revolutionary methods, which his grandfather Gavrila, a participant in the First World War, raised when he himself was raised.

Eh, Katerina Stepanovna, Katerina Stepanovna!

Well, what do deuces have to do with it, as they say about space interplanetary travel! For life!

She doesn’t understand anything about interplanetary travel, and Ekaterina Stepanovna! Of course, she doesn’t care about those trips. Because she is already old - twenty-seven years old. Nobody will take her into space anymore. It only ruins others' lives.

Well, I'll do it for her! I'll arrange it for her! - Valera muttered, gritting his teeth as they went out into the corridor. And suddenly the already mentioned quick eyes began to twinkle in Valera’s eyes, indicating that a bold, desperate plan was being born in his head.

Listen! And you know what?! - Valera put his lower lip forward. - Let's give her... a hedgehog!

Which one? - I didn’t understand Jug.

Where can I get it?

Catch! In the forest! .. I saw it in the summer. How we went mushroom hunting with dad.

Ty... And when are you going to catch him?

Today! Right after school. Why put it off?

Today? - Vasya shrugged his shoulders uncertainly.

What - are you afraid?

No, but...

Mom, sister, aunt!

No, but...

Oh you! Dumpling! And you are also planning to fly into space!

What you! Would I say I don't want to? You just need to think first, weigh...

What is there to think? What to weigh? Go and catch! Here's another!

When Valera was possessed by a certain idea, it was impossible to convince him and refuse.