They know. The long-promised fairy tale about Noodles Pedunya (Udmurtia). fairy tale number ONE primary school teacher

Once upon a time there was an old shaman in Udmurtia. And this shaman had three sons - Adami, Shamash and Lopsho Pedun. Adami was the eldest and smartest, Shamash was average but the strongest, and Lopsho Pedun was the most stupid. And people also said that Lopsho Pedun was once much wiser than his older brothers, but only then he went crazy after one unpleasant story. This is the story that will be discussed next.

The village where the brothers lived stood in a swamp, not far from the Big River. The swamp was huge, and huge animals and reptiles were found in that swamp. And the villagers loved to catch and eat them (especially when they had nothing else to eat) ...
And then one winter the brothers went hunting. Adami took with him a bow and arrows, Shamash - a spear and a club, and Lopsho Pedun - a small rope. Whom he wanted to catch with this rope, no one knows and now will never know, because its owner himself did not catch anyone that day, but only lost his mind and now he will definitely not tell anything ...

So, the brothers went hunting to the nearest swamp. They go, they go, and suddenly they see - in the middle of the swamp there is a huge green moldy boulder stone, blocking the straight path, and the swamp divides into three parts. Adami and Shamash stopped near this stone and began to decide which way to go in order to catch more animals and feed the whole family. They decided, they decided, they thought, they thought, but they didn’t come up with anything. And Lopsho, meanwhile, examined the boulder from all sides and saw such words on its very top: “Whoever goes to the right, he will come back, whoever goes to the left, will not find anything, and whoever moves the stone and goes straight, will catch a big beast and lose his mind ". After reading this inscription, he told his brothers about it, and then the sons of the shaman decided that Adami would go to the right, Shamash to the left, and Lopsho Pedun to go straight.

And the brothers went on their way, each along his own path. Adami walked around the whole swamp, on the way he shot three frogs for fun and returned back, Shamash got into a swampy place, barely got out of there, did not find anything and came with nothing, and Lopsho Pedun at that time was trying to move a stone, and so I couldn't - I didn't have enough strength. And then he began to pray to Inmaru. Inmar heard his prayers and broke the stone, and then drowned it in the quagmire. Then Lopsho Pedun was delighted and went forward. How long, how short did Lopsho Pedun walk, but only the path did not end, and no one came across him along the way.

And then the evening came. A whole month went out into the sky, blocked the sun and lit up the whole swamp. And then I saw Lopsho Pedun, starving by that time, right on the path of a huge beast. And I decided to catch him and drag him with him. I unrolled my rope, made a loop and tried to throw it on the beast, but I just couldn’t catch it - the beast turned out to be too big. And the youngest son of the shaman Inmaru began to pray again. He prayed and prayed, but he did not achieve anything - Inmar did not hear him. Then Lopsho Pedun took a closer look at the beast, and realized that a mistake had come out - he mistook his shadow for the beast out of hunger.

Then he looked around and suddenly noticed that someone's tail was flickering in the distance, picked up a rope from the path and caught a huge hare with it, stuffed it into a bag and went home. And when he reached the village in the morning, he told his brothers about everything, and they blabbed to everyone else how Lopsho Pedun caught his shadow, and then the people decided that Lopsho Pedun had gone crazy, but only forgot about the huge hare and therefore did not understand that it was not Lopsho Pedun who became stupid, but his brothers ...

There once lived a wealthy merchant. He hired workers and from the very early morning until late in the evening he starved them at work, he did not give them a minute of rest.
The sun will set, the workers will disperse for the night, and the merchant, out of vexation, cannot find a place for himself.
Once this merchant decided to build himself a new house. He hired workers and says:
- I'll pay you by the day!
And he himself thinks: “I will make them build a house in one day! But how to do it? How to lengthen the day?
The merchant went to look for a man who would teach how to lengthen the day.
Whomever he asks - it's all to no avail. Some say: "We don't know!" Others laugh, others are surprised.
A merchant walked and walked and went into one village. And in this village lived Lopsho Pedun, a master of all sorts of cunning inventions.
Lopsho Pedun saw the merchant and asked:
- What are you looking for here? Is there anything I can help you with?
- Yes, - the merchant answers, - I am looking for a person who would teach how to lengthen the day. Otherwise, it’s a real problem with the workers: they don’t have time to get up, they immediately go to bed. And I know pay them and feed them.
– Ah-ah-ah! - says Lopsho Pedun. “And how did you get right to me?” I will help your grief! I'll teach you how to lengthen the day! It's very simple!
And he thinks to himself: “Wait, fat-bellied! Wait, greedy! I will ridicule you all over the district!”
Lopsho Pedun brought the merchant to his hut, seated him at the table and said:
- I will teach you how to lengthen the day, I will teach you! That's all you have to pay me for!
- All right, - says the merchant, - so be it, I will pay you, I will not be stingy.
- Well, listen. Dress up warmly: put on a shirt, a vest on a shirt, a jacket on a vest, a sheepskin coat on a jacket, a fur hat on your head, felt boots on your feet, mittens on your hands. After you get dressed, take a sharp pitchfork, climb the highest tree, sit on a bough - sit and support the sun with a pitchfork. So it won't move! The day won't end until you wish! Got it?
The merchant rejoiced.
“Understood,” he says, “understood!” How not to understand! Well, now my employees will know that the money is not given in vain! Thank you for science!
The merchant returned home and said to the workers:
You will work tomorrow until the sun goes down.
And he himself thinks: “I won’t let him sit down! I won't let him sit! I’ll keep him until the house is put up!”
In the morning, the merchant put on a warm shirt, a vest on the shirt, a jacket on the vest, a sheepskin coat on the jacket, a fur hat on his head, felt boots on his feet, mittens on his hands, picked up a pitchfork and climbed the highest tree. People look at the merchant, wonder, they cannot understand what he started.
And the merchant sat down on a thick bough, raised his pitchfork and shouted:
Well, carpenters! Until I get off the tree, don't quit your job!
Workers carry logs, saw, cut, plan, and the merchant sits, holds a pitchfork in his hands, looks at the sun himself.
And the sun bakes him stronger and stronger, stronger and stronger. The merchant became hot, sweat runs from him in streams.
I looked down: how are my employees? And they know they saw, cut, plan.
Noon came, and the merchant was so frazzled, so exhausted that he could hardly hold his pitchfork. He himself thinks:
“And when does the day end? That and look, I'll fry here. I have never seen such a long day in my life!”
He could not stand it. He threw the pitchfork on the ground, somehow climbed down from the tree and said:
- Well, there is nothing to hold back the sun! Let him go his way!
And he trudged home, he was barely dragging his legs.
They found out about this in all the neighboring villages, and began to laugh at the stupid merchant. He was gone!

During the First World War, Lopsho Pedun was taken into the army. Grandmother prepared new trousers for him, grandfather wove new bast shoes. He put Lopsho Pedun in a patch of crackers, a dried lad, a few heads of onions, and set off on his journey.
- Do not grieve, - he punished his grandfather and grandmother. - Do not expect letters from me, I myself will appear before the mail,
They delivered Lopsho Pedun right to the border. Then his stocks ran out: crackers with a boy ran out
Another would be confused, being without food, twirled, and Pedun does not even blow in his mustache, he looks like an eagle,
The commander seemed to Lopsho Pedun unreliable. The commander tells him:
- You, Pedun, go to the convoy. And by appearance and habits I see - you are a cowardly person. In battle, you will completely become limp, you will not stand it.
Lopsho Pedun got angry, well, he thinks, I'll show you.
The next day, in the morning, the commander ordered him to harness them. Lopsho Pedun fussed and began to harness the stallion in front of him. He tied the shafts to the collar, and the cart rolled ahead of the horse.
- Is it really so tight? the soldiers laugh at him.
- You're really laughing! - Lopsho Pedun shouted at them. - People always have a wheelbarrow in front of them
pput. What's worse than a horse? If you want to know, this stallion is probably smarter than you.
Lopsho Pedun was kicked out of the convoy.
“Send me to reconnaissance - you won’t repent,” he says.
Let him go, - the commander decided, here he is still of no use.





Three days passed, and they forgot about Lopsho Pedun: either he was in the world, or he was not born at all. The man disappeared and left no trace. He died - he does not give news. However, on the fourth day in the morning, Lopsho Pedun appeared in the company. He sat down at the barracks and was silent, as if he had taken water in his mouth - he did not say a word.
Just that night it was necessary to send reconnaissance to the enemy trenches. The commander selected twenty of the most combative soldiers.
- If the hunt, go and you, - he said to Lopsho Pedun.
The scouts returned early in the morning, they say that they never saw the enemy.
- And where did Pedun go? - asked the commander.
- He went further, - the soldiers answered.
Three days passed, and they forgot about Lopsho Pedun: either he was in the world, or he was not born at all. The man disappeared and left no trace. He died - he does not give news. However, on the fourth day in the morning, Lopsho Pedun appeared in the company. He sat down at the barracks and was silent, as if he had taken water in his mouth - he did not say a word.
- Pedun, where have you been, what have you seen? the commander asks.
“I won’t say anything here, I’ll only report to the colonel himself,” he replies.
They escorted Lopsho Pedun to the colonel. Pedun stretched himself out in front of him, sent an enemy banner from his pocket.
- Well done! the colonel rejoiced. And then he put the St. George Cross on Lopsho Pedun's chest.
- Listen ... your ... nobility! barked Pedun.
“Now tell me how you got this banner,” said the colonel.
But Lopsho Pedun refused: he says that only he can tell the general about this.
They gave Lopsho Pedun new pants and a tunic. St. George's cross more than ever on the chest sparkled. They brought him to the general. The general awarded him with another St. George's row - the second degree.
But Lopsho Pedun and the general did not tell anything. I, he says, will only tell the king about what I learned.

They delivered Lopsho Pedun directly to the Winter Palace. Here, first of all, they washed him from golden dishes and sent him to rest on a bed of swan's down. Of course, they fed and drunk to satiety, and even sprinkled fragrant water. The next day they sang to the king's office.
- Corporal Lopsho Pedun arrived at your command, your highness! barked Pedun.
The king laughed, pleased - a brave soldier! - and personally pinned the St. George Cross of the first degree on Lopsho Pedun's chest. Lopsho Pedun became a full Knight of St. George.
- Well, now tell me how you managed to get the German regimental banner, - said the king.
Managed, your majesty! I, how to go on reconnaissance, took with me the royal banner of the company, - says Lopsho Pedun. - Anyway, I think it will not be needed soon. I gave it to a German soldier, and he gave it to me - that's it.
Dog! Away! - shouted the king.
- That's right, your majesty is a dog! - Lopsho Pedun did not remain in debt, turned and walked straight to the trenches.

A summer day seemed short to one merchant: the sun rises late and sets early. And when the time came to hire laborers, the merchant was completely upset: the day for him became like the twinkling of an eye. The merchant laments that the laborers will not have time to go out into the field, when it is time to return back. So they will never do all the work.

He came to Lopsho Pedun.

What need has brought you to me, buskel? asked the merchant Lopsho.

Yes, the day is very short. The workers do not have time to reach the field - look, the evening is coming, but you have to pay them in full, and feed them, as agreed. It occurred to me to lengthen the day, but I could not find anyone who would help me in this. I came to ask you if you know someone who knows how to make the day longer.

Uh, yeah, and how did you happen to run into just such a person? - Lopsho Pedun said not without pleasure, thinking to himself that it was the turn to teach the greedy man a lesson. - Give five pounds of flour - I will help you.

And ten pounds is not a pity, just teach as soon as possible.

Listen, urom, how to help your trouble and make the day longer, ”Lopsho Pedun began to explain. - Put on a warmer derem 1, a jacket, over everything - a sheepskin coat, on your feet - felt boots, and on your head - sheepskin malachai. Take a pitchfork in your hands, climb a higher birch and hold the sun with a pitchfork so that it stands still. Did you understand?

Got it, got it, got it. Thanks a lot for the kind advice. Come visit, I'll treat you myself.

The merchant returned home and boasted to his wife of his resourcefulness. What, they say, did he learn how to hold the sun so that it does not quickly run across the sky ..

Summer that year was hot. The merchant hired carpenters to put up the house in one day. And he began to gather in the evening. He put on a warm derem, a jacket, a sheepskin coat, put on felt boots, and so that his head was warmer, he put on a fur hat. For hands, I also thought of grabbing sheepskin mittens. The merchant took the longest hay pitchfork in his hands and, without waiting for the sunrise, climbed the highest birch. He ordered the carpenters to work as contracted - the whole day. The merchant is sitting almost on the top of a birch, not a single twig of shade gives him - and holds the sun with a pitchfork. From the heat, sweat runs down his back in streams, his hands are completely stiff, they begin to tremble.

And the laborers work without respite, tapping with axes, tinkling with saws. From time to time they glance at the merchant, smiling. The merchant strictly ordered not to stop until he descended from the birch. He assigned his wife to them to keep an eye on the workers.

The merchant is fried on a birch tree under the sun, from his fatigue and looking at the ground he will blur. And it seems to him a very long day. Perhaps he does not remember such a long day in his lifetime.

By noon, the merchant, as in a steam bath, was steamed, tired, as if he had been plowed arable land all day and whipped with a whip. He climbed down from the birch.

Well, thank you, workers, they did a good job today, that's enough, - he says.

And the laborers are happy, happy: they were not tired at all, they only worked for the merchant for half a day. They went home happy.

This is how the greedy merchant lengthened the day. For this, he gave Lopsho Pedun ten pounds of flour and even treated him to glory.

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1 Durem - women's shirt among the Udmurts.

Once upon a time, a poor peasant lived in a kingdom. In all his life he had not seen happiness and joy. And he had three sons. The eldest was called Ivan, the middle one was Pavel, the youngest was Petyr. The brothers were different in height: Ivan is tall, Pavel is of medium height, and Petyr is quite a short man.

When the father was dying, he said to his sons:

“You are all my sons, you are all dear to me. I have lived my life in poverty, leaving you nothing behind. Look for your own happiness and a good life.

After the death of their father, all three brothers left their father's house. They went along the road, not knowing where. They walked and walked and reached a big mountain. We stopped to rest under the mountain and heard the sound of an ax at the top.

- Let's go to the mountain, let's see who's chopping there, - Petyr says to the brothers.

The brothers didn't go. Then Petyr alone climbed the mountain and was surprised: the ax alone cuts and cuts down trees.

- Hey, axe, can I see you? Petyr asks.

“Look,” says the ax and walks towards him.

Petyr took the ax, put it in a bag and went to the brothers.

- Who cuts there? they ask him.

“Someone is chopping, I didn’t recognize it,” says Petyr.

“Let’s go and see who is mining the stone,” Petyr again suggests to the brothers.

“If you are not tired, go and go,” Ivan sends him, “but we are tired.”

Petyr climbed the mountain and sees: the kylo itself, without a person, extracts a stone.

- Can I see you, Kylo? Petyr asks. Kylo walked over to him. Peter took it and put it in a bag.

- Well, what did you see there? You run in vain, where you don’t need to, - Ivan scolds him.

“Someone is mining the stone there, I don’t know who,” says Petyr.

“Let's go up the river, see where it flows from,” says Petyr.

When will you reach the source? If you are a fool, go seek, says Paul.

Peter went. Soon he reached the source of the river. He sees: a river comes out of the nut shell.

- Hey, shell, can I see you? Petyr asks. The shell replied that it was possible. Petyr took the shell, put it in a bag and returned to the brothers.

- Well, what did you see? they ask him.

“I haven’t reached the end,” says Petyr.

They walked and walked and reached the city. The city learned that the king was offering a big reward and his daughter as a wife to anyone who could cut down an oak tree in the royal court.

Can we do it, brothers? Petyr asks.

“Let’s go and see if we can get lucky,” the brothers say. And they went to the king.

The king has already gathered a lot of people. It is difficult to understand what is happening here: one has no nose, the other has no ear, the third has no eyes.

“Why are they all crippled?” Ivan asks.

We promised to cut down this oak, but we failed. That's what the king is for

and punished us.

“We won’t be able to do it either, let’s better get out of here before they cripple us,” Ivan says.

- No, we can. We won’t leave here,” Petyr replies.

"What are you talking about, brat?" Look how healthy the people here are, not like you, but they couldn’t cut down the oak. You cut down one branch, and a hundred new branches grow in its place. Where are you going, - one noseless one says with a sneer.

The oak grew so large that it closed all the royal buildings.

Petyr went to the king and said that they would cut down the oak.

“Don’t cut it down, I’ll do the same with you as with everyone here,” said the king.

Ivan took his ax and struck once. In that place, new hundred branches grew, another hit - new hundred branches grew again. And Paul didn't even get down to business. The king wanted to cut off the brothers' ears.

Peter asked:

- Wait, king! If I can't, then do whatever you want. Until then, don't punish my brothers.

Petyr took out a self-tapping ax from his bag, planted it in an oak tree and said to him:

- Ruby, my axe!

The ax began to chop! He stabs and stacks firewood in woodpile. All the people were surprised, did not know what to say. The tsar also came out to see, because it immediately became light in the palace. It was the ax that felled the oak, and it became clear all around.

- Here, king, I freed you from the oak, it will no longer grow. Come on, promise.

The king felt sorry for giving a reward, and even more so, he did not want to give his daughter to the poor.

“Here you are, Petyr,” says the tsar. “If you manage to dig a well in the middle of my palace so that the water never ends there, then I will give you half of my kingdom and give you a daughter.

“You'd better get paid for this work, and let's get out of here,” Ivan says. – How do you get to the water on such a mountain?

“No, we won’t leave, we’ll dig and we’ll get to the water,” answers

him Petyr.

He took out a kailo from the bag, dug the ground and said:

- Dig, my pick!

And work began. Kylo is digging, only stones are flying up. Digging, digging, but no water. Petyr stopped the kailo, took out the shell from the bag and put it in the well, saying:

- Give me your silver water, my shell!

And water flowed from the shell, clean as a tear. Soon she filled the well and flowed like a stream through the yard. The people gasped in surprise.

The king was surprised by this more than the people. He hoped that Petyr would not get water and would not have to pay him off. And then it turned out the other way around.

“I will give you one more job,” the tsar says to Petyru. If you fulfill it, then you will receive what you promised. There is a forest not far from here. A giant is in charge of this forest, he does not let anyone into the forest. If you manage to defeat the giant, you will live.

Peter left, and the tsar thought with joy: “Now you won’t return alive from the giant!”

Petyr came to the forest, made the ax cut down the trees. The trees are falling down like they've been cut down.

Who dared to enter my domain? I'll crush a cockroach, - the giant shouts and tries to step on Petyr with his boot.

And the ax knocks everything down and knocks down trees. Then the giant pleaded. - Stop, Petyr, cut down the forest, ruin my estate. You defeated me, be my master.

Peter returned to the king and said:

I have defeated the giant. Keep your word now. If you don't, I'll kill you myself.

The king sent to the forest to see if the giant was really no longer in charge. The king's workers arrived in the forest.

- Who sent you here? the giant asks.

“Petyr and the Tsar sent us,” they answer.

- Get some wood. Peter defeated me, and I'm not going against him, - says the giant.

The workers returned with firewood.

So Peter won? the king asks them.

- Won. The giant said that he is no longer an opponent of Petyr, the workers say.

The king was afraid of Petyr, kept his word, and Petyr became the son-in-law of the king.

Udmurt folk tales. - 3rd ed., with changes / Compilation, translation and processing by N.P. Kralina. - Izhevsk: Udmurtia, 2003. - 144 p.: ill.

in Udmurt

stupid kitten

Once upon a time there was a cat with a kitten. The kitten was small, stupid. One day he saw a ray of sun on the roof.

There must be some tasty food, - the kitten thought and climbed onto the roof.

He had almost reached the roof, when suddenly a sparrow fluttered out from somewhere.

No, I’d better eat it first, and then I’ll climb further, ”the silly kitten said to himself and rushed after the sparrow.

The sparrow flew away, and the kitten fell to the ground and hurt himself badly. Then the cat, comforting him, said to him:

Your job is to catch mice.

The kitten listened to his mother's instructions and promised never to forget him.

It's been a long time. Once a kitten caught a mouse in the forest and in his mouth he carries home to show his prey to his mother. He had to cross the stream on a perch. And when he was crossing, he noticed his shadow in the water and again thought:

I'd rather take the mouse away from that kitten!

Releasing the mouse from his mouth, he rushed into the water. Of course, he did not catch the shadow, and he himself barely escaped: wet, dirty, he returned to his mother. But now the cat did not console him, but beat him and said again that he should only do his job - to catch mice, and not chase after everything that gets in his eyes.

Since then, the kitten has not forgotten the mother's instructions.

in Udmurt

Bogatyr Kondrat

On the steep bank of the Izh River, in a dark dense forest, Kondrat built a dwelling for himself: he dug a deep hole and put a log house there. It was necessary to enter there as in a dugout. The door was covered with a heavy cast-iron plate, which no one could even move. Only Kondrat himself opened the entrance to his dugout.

Kondrat hoped for his heroic strength and decided to live alone. But to live like this, not going anywhere, not visiting the neighbors, he soon got bored. He began to walk through the forest. Sitting on the steep bank of the river, I watched for a long time how the water flows in the river. And then he began to go to neighboring villages.

Having learned about the heroic strength of Kondrat, the people decided to choose him as their king. Then the Udmurts were at enmity with the Tatars. The Tatars staged frequent raids, burned entire villages, took away property and took them away.

Kondrat, you are strong, we want to make you our king, the Udmurts said.

Strength also needs intelligence, and among you there are those, choose those, ”Kondrat answered.

All the people bowed to Kondrat.

We need you, they said.

Okay, Kondrat agreed.

Once, when Kondrat was in the village, the Tatars of the Golden Horde raided there. A commotion arose all around: fluff and feathers fly there, smoke appeared in another place.

Follow me! thundered Kondrat's appeal to his people.

He walked ahead of everyone. He shot the first arrow at the leader of the Tatar army. The arrow went right through the body of the Tatar leader.

A fierce battle began. The entire Tatar army was destroyed in battle. Only one Tatar escaped - he galloped off on a horse and told the news to the khan:

Khan, the Udmurt king is very strong. He destroyed all of us.

Where does he live? I will measure my strength with him, - said the Tatar Khan.

I know the way to it, - the Tatar says.

Kondrat, tired in battle, was resting at that time in his dugout.

He should have been here, - Kondrat heard the Tatar's voice. Then he hears that someone is trying to open the door, but the stove does not give in to efforts.

Kondrat then hit the stove. The plate, together with the khan, flew into the river. He, having fallen under the stove, drowned.

Don't touch me, Kondrat, I'll be useful to you, - the Tatar asks.

Go, pull my door out of the river, Kondrat tells him.

The Tatar entered the water behind the stove, but could not pull it out and drowned himself.

The Tatars, in order to avenge their khan, again gathered in a war against the Udmurts. The new Khan was afraid of the strong Kondrat.

First of all, you need to kill Kondrat, - he ordered.

They chose the five most powerful, brave Tatars and sent them on horseback to the dark forest where the hero Kondrat lived.

Returning one day to his dugout. Kondrat saw riders riding through the forest towards his dwelling.

He hid behind a thick pine tree and watched. The Tatars, having tied their horses, approached the dugout to the trees.

Kondrat pulled the slab out of the water and left it at the entrance to the dugout. Without thinking twice, the Tatars descended into it. Kondrat immediately ran up and covered the entrance with a slab. And he himself untied all the horses, sat on one of them and rode to the village.

Prepare for battle,” he boomed again in his thunderous voice.

Why fight in vain? After all, the Tatars do not touch us now, - said one strong Udmurt.

This man himself wanted to be king. The hero hit him with his fist and crushed all his bones.

The rest said:

With you, we are ready to throw ourselves into fire and into water. We believe you.

Five or six villages were very close to each other. All of them, on the orders of their king Kondrat, began to prepare for battle. And the kondrat at this time, in order to take possession of the wife of the Tatar khan, galloped off on a fast horse to the palace in a whirlwind.

Khan's wife was guarded by twenty Tatars. Nineteen Tatars he then destroyed. The twentieth knelt before Kondrat and began to beg him:

I'll tell you everything, just don't kill me," he said. - The Tatars are now choosing a new khan. Get ready to go to you a new war.

Kondrat quickly grabbed the Khan's wife, carried her out of the palace and began to look around. Thousands of Tatars gathered outside the palace. They were already choosing their third khan. Konrat grabbed the Tatar and threw him over a high fence into the crowd. Only then did the Tatars learn that Kondrat was here, and they began to hastily surround the palace from all sides. And Kondrat, taking with him the wife of the khan, was already rushing like an arrow on his fast horse to his people. The Tatars realized it too late - behind Kondratra only dust rises in the distance.

Kondrat came to his place, put one person to guard his future wife. And the people led into the forest, to their home.

The Tatars did not have to wait long. Having chosen a new khan for themselves, they moved like a black cloud against the Udmurts.

A strong fight began. Kondrat fought like heroes: some with kicks, some with fist blows he threw into the black waters of a deep river. On the very shore he met a new khan of the Tatars. He unexpectedly for Kondrat took out his dagger and stabbed him in the heart.

At the same time, Kondrat grabbed the khan by the throat. And they both fell dead into the river.

After the battle, the Tatars together moved the slab of the dugout and freed their imprisoned khan.

in Udmurt

lazybones

One rich man had three daughters: two loved work, and the third was a lazy person. The two older ones got married, no one takes the third. A poor man lived in the same village. He had a dilapidated hut, there was neither a cow nor a horse. He went to a rich man to woo a lazy man for himself. The rich man says to him:

What will you do with her? She's very lazy, you'll cry with her.

The poor man says to the rich:

I will teach her how to work.

If so, take her and teach her how to work, and I will make you rich.

As a dowry, the father built a house, gave a cow, a horse, pigs, sheep, clothes. The poor man married a lazy man and took her to him. The poor man's mother puts on a samovar in the morning, wakes up her son and daughter-in-law to drink tea. The son gets up, drinks tea and goes to work, but the daughter-in-law does not even raise her head, pretending to be asleep. The son punishes the mother:

You, mother, don’t wake her up and don’t feed her, let her sleep all day.

The daughter-in-law gets up before dinner and asks for food. Mother-in-law tells her:

Did you work today or not? Who does not work, we, after all, do not feed. Go work first, eat later.

She does not want to work: she sits for a day, two, three, but she wants to eat. He goes home to his father and says:

My husband does not feed me, but he makes me work, I have not eaten anything for three days.

Father says:

I will not feed you, daughter, either. There is no bread prepared for you today.

The lazy person was offended, went back to her husband and said to him:

Give me some work, I'm very hungry.

Husband says:

Let's go to the flax field to pull.

Let's go pick it up. The wife fiddled a little, and went to bed.

Not far from them grew maple, and under it was an anthill. The husband put his wife on an anthill and tied her to a tree. As soon as the ants began to bite her, the lazybones begged:

Untie, please, now I will not be lazy, what you make me do - I will do everything.

The husband untied her and gave her oatmeal with bread. Then the whole day they pulled the flax together. Since then, the poor man's wife began to love work. If suddenly the wife starts to be lazy again, then the husband reminds her:

Hey, wife, remember the maple at the strip! - And she immediately appears industriousness.

One day the father came to visit his daughter. I sat on the bench for a long time. I was waiting for an invitation to the table, but my daughter does not think to treat.

Father says:

Daughter, at least put a samovar, I came to visit.

And the daughter replies:

Go and work in the yard, we don't feed those who don't work.

So the poor man taught his lazy wife to work.

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Wolf and goat

One goat strayed from the herd. I wandered for a long time - I could not find my way back home. Decided to cut some grass. And here comes the gray wolf right at him.

Well, friend goat, I'll eat you now, - says the wolf.

Do not eat yet, I will still work up fat, - he asks.

The wolf agreed and left the kid. A little time passed, he again appears.

Walked fat? Now I'll eat you.

Wait, - said the kid, - I will help you. Stand under that hillock, open your mouth, and I will run into it with a run.

The wolf agreed. He stood under a hillock, opened his mouth and waits. As the goatling scatters, and as soon as its horns hit the forehead of the gray fool, the wolf rolled head over heels. I came to my senses. Got up and still thinks:

Did I eat it or didn't I?

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Creation Legend

It was so long ago that no one can remember.

All around the world there was only water, there was no land at all. And only one Inmar and one Shaitan lived in the world. Inmar ordered the shaitan to dive under the water and get the earth from the bottom. Shaitan obeyed Inmar, dived to the bottom and took out a handful of earth with each hand. He gave the Inmar almost all the land he got, only hiding a little in his mouth.

Inmar took earth from the hands of the devil, put it in his palm and blew it into the water. The earth began to grow, became more and more. She was smooth, smooth as a frying pan.

The earth, which the shaitan hid in his mouth, also began to grow. There were so many of her that she no longer fit in there. Satan spat it out. The crumbs scattered in different directions, and mountains, swamps, and bumps formed on the ground. If the shaitan had not deceived the Inmar, then the earth would have remained even and smooth.

The first people were very, very big, real giants. They lived carefree, doing nothing, because they knew nothing: neither build, nor sow, nor hunt. The dense forest was like nettles for them. Where the foot of such a giant stepped - a log appeared, where he shook sand out of his bast shoes - hills formed.

Before the giants disappeared, small ordinary people appeared. Inmar lived with them and taught them to work. The little man began to plow the land, cut down the forest, build huts. He saw one giant boy, took it in his hand and put it in his pocket along with the ax. He returned home and shows his mother:

Look, mother, what kind of woodpecker I caught, he hollowed the spruce.

And his mother says to him:

Son, this is not a woodpecker, this is a person. It means that we will soon be gone, only such people will live in the world. They are small, but hardworking: they know how to drive bees and catch animals. It's time for us to leave here. Let's run quickly! And the mother cried. Where her tears fell, rivers formed there. There are many left on earth. The giants moved north.

The giants had a very small mind. One day they were sitting and warming themselves around the fire. The fire flared up, began to burn his legs. They should have moved away from the fire, but they didn’t have the mind to figure it out, and they began to smear their feet with clay. When the fire went out, they froze and turned into large boulders.

They say that there is a deep pit in the middle of Mount Karyil. Poles were thrown at her, but the poles fell through like into a bottomless well. Only the distant ringing was heard from the fall. It is said that the rest of the giants descended into this well. And no one saw them again. The giants were called asaba, which means this word - no one knows already.

When there were many people on earth, they learned to do everything themselves and stopped obeying the Inmar. Inmar got angry and left people for the next world. Since then, there has been no more Inmar in this world, and people live well without it.

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Greedy merchant

A summer day seemed short to one merchant: the sun rises late and sets early. And when the time came to hire laborers, the merchant was completely upset: the day for him became like the twinkling of an eye. The merchant laments that the laborers will not have time to go out into the field, when it is time to return back. So they will never do all the work.

He came to Lopsho Pedun.

What need has brought you to me, buskel? asked the merchant Lopsho.

Yes, the day is very short. The workers do not have time to reach the field - look, the evening is coming, but you have to pay them in full, and feed them, as agreed. It occurred to me to lengthen the day, but I could not find anyone who would help me in this. I came to ask you if you know someone who knows how to make the day longer.

Uh, yeah, and how did you happen to run into just such a person? - Lopsho Pedun said not without pleasure, thinking to himself that the time has come to teach the greedy man a lesson. - If you give five pounds of flour, I will help you.

And ten pounds is not a pity, just teach as soon as possible.

Listen, urom, how to help your trouble and make the day longer, - Lopsho Pedun began to explain. - Put on a warmer derem, jacket, over everything - a sheepskin coat, on your feet - felt boots, and on your head - a sheepskin malachai. Take a pitchfork in your hands, climb a higher birch and hold the sun with a pitchfork so that it stands still. Did you understand?

Got it, got it, got it all. Thanks a lot for the kind advice. Come visit, I'll treat you myself.

The merchant returned home and boasted to his wife of his resourcefulness. What, they say, did he learn how to hold the sun so that it does not quickly run across the sky ..

Summer that year was hot. The merchant hired carpenters to put up the house in one day. And he began to gather in the evening. He put on a warm derem, a jacket, a sheepskin coat, put on felt boots, and to keep his head warm, he put on a fur hat. For hands, I also thought of grabbing sheepskin mittens. The merchant took the longest hay pitchfork in his hands and, without waiting for the sunrise, climbed the highest birch. He ordered the carpenters to work as contracted - the whole day. The merchant is sitting almost on the top of a birch, not a single twig of shade gives him - and the sun holds the pitchfork. From the heat, sweat runs down his back in streams, his hands are completely stiff, they begin to tremble.

And the laborers work without respite, tapping with axes, tinkling with saws. From time to time they glance at the merchant, smiling. The merchant strictly ordered not to stop until he descended from the birch. He assigned his wife to them to keep an eye on the workers.

The merchant is fried on a birch tree under the sun, from his fatigue and looking at the ground he will blur. And it seems to him a very long day. Perhaps he does not remember such a long day in his lifetime.

By noon, the merchant, as in a steam bath, was steamed, tired, as if he had been plowed arable land all day and whipped with a whip. He climbed down from the birch.

Well, thank you, the workers, they did a good job today, that's enough, - he says.

And the farm laborers are happy, glad: they were not tired at all, they only worked for the merchant for half a day. They went home happy.

This is how the greedy merchant lengthened the day. For this, he gave Lopsho Pedun ten poods of flour and even treated him to glory.

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Two brothers

At one man had two sons. After his death, they separated, one became rich, and the other lived in bitter need.

What a waste to sip, I’ll go and drown myself, the poor man reasoned to himself.

He came to the river, saw an overturned boat on the shore, lay down under it and began to think. I thought and thought and changed my mind to drown myself.

I'll spend one more night under the boat," he said. Before I could fall asleep, three people approached the boat and started talking:

Well, tell me now, who is up to what? someone asked.

Here's one that started:

One priest's daughter has been ill for two years. I know how to cure her. It is necessary to collect the leaves of black grass, give her a decoction to drink and she will recover.

What do you know?” asked another.

To build a bridge across the sea, builders put up pillars. But as soon as they put it up - at midnight those pillars are carried away by water. I know how to strengthen them: you need to lower a silver coin into the hole under each pillar, then no force will take them.

A third was asked:

What do you know?

Not far from here, a barrel of gold is thrown into this river. To pull out the barrel, you need to throw a leaf of unfading grass into the water. As soon as you drop it, the barrel will pop up by itself.

So we talked and left. Everything they said, the man heard. Now he has completely changed his mind about drowning himself. He returned home and began to collect leaves of black grass. Collected, boiled and went to treat the priest's daughter. Pop immediately asked him:

Do you know medicines? My daughter has been sick for two years now.

Your daughter will get better in three days, do not regret only a hundred rubles, - says the peasant.

If you cure me, I'll pay two hundred rubles, says the priest.

The peasant, as he said, so it happened: the priestess recovered. The priest was delighted, gave him two hundred rubles and treated him properly.

The man returned home. A little later I went to the builders. He did not have time to say hello, as they complain:

Here we put pillars for the bridge, but before we have time to turn away, they are blown away by water. We've been fighting for a long time, but we can't think of anything.

The man knows how to strengthen the poles. He thought for a moment and says:

Pay me three hundred rubles, I will strengthen the pillars.

Just think, we'll give you five hundred.

He took silver coins and lowered them into each post hole. The builders woke up in the morning and see: the pillars are still standing as they were placed. I had to give the peasant five hundred rubles.

A man came home and rejoices at how much money he now has! Went to look for unfading grass. He collected the leaves and went to the river to pull out a barrel of gold. As he threw the sheet, the barrel itself floated up. He took the barrel and went home. At home, I decided to pour the gold into the barn, but there was no pudovka. I had to go to a rich brother and ask for a pudovka.

Later, he scooped out the gold from the barrel and carried the pudding back, leaving several gold coins at the bottom of it. The rich man took a pudovka, saw gold at the bottom and was surprised.

Where did you get so much gold from? - He asks his brother.

I wanted to drown myself, - says the poor man, - he went to the river and lay down under the boat. At night, three people came ashore to me too: there, in such and such a place, there is a barrel of gold. And taught how to roll it out. I did everything as they said, and found a whole barrel of gold.

Well, brother, thank you, now I'll go, - says the rich man.

He came to the river and, as the poor brother said, went to sleep under the boat. He lies, breathes heavily, and he himself is afraid that thieves would not find him. Here he hears - there are three. We stopped near the boat and began to listen.

Someone else is hiding near us, - one of them says.

All three went to the boat, lifted it up and pulled the rich man out. He did not have time to say a word, as they took him by the legs, by the hands and threw him into the water. Here the death of the rich man came.

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Zanym-Koydym

Zanym-Koydym did not like to take care of his horse and feed it. “Now, if she worked for me, and there would be no need to feed her,” he constantly said. The horse's ribs stuck out like hoops at the top, she was all bony and looked like a skeleton.

If only I could pull the cart, it will be necessary, I myself will help a little, - Zanym-Koydym calmed himself.

One day he went to the mill. He put three sacks in the cart, and the fourth took it on his shoulders and sat on the cart. The oncoming people laughed at such a wagon.

Hey neighbor, what are you doing? Why are you carrying a bag over your shoulders?

I help horses. So it will be easier for her, I think, - answered Zanym-Koydym. Hot sweat ran down his face in streams: the sack was heavy.

We drove a little, the horse stopped.

But, oh, loon! You're not the only one tired, I'm tired too, I'm carrying a whole bag on my shoulders! - shouts Zanym-Koydym at the horse, continuing to sit on the bags in the cart and keep the bag on his shoulders.

We drove a little more, and the road went uphill. The horse stopped again.

So what happened to her? I help myself - and still there is no strength for some reason.

Zanym-Koydym is still sitting under the mountain. His shoulders were white with flour dust, and his horse had long since fallen.