Thursday, October 1, 2015

Extra Reading Diary: Russian Folktales

Russian Folktales:

"The Dead Mother": A babies mother dies and every day the baby would cry until nighttime when they heard someone go into the room. The family then hid until the someone came into the room. They realized it had been the mother then went to the baby and it was dead.

"The Treasure": An old man went to burry his wife and found a pot of gold in which he paid for the funeral and a fine feast after. The pope became greedy and came to trick the old man out of his money. The sheep suit the pope wore to trick the old man was then stuck to his body and wouldn't come off.

"The Bad Wife": There was a man with a bad wife. She did not listen to him and always did the exact opposite. One day he trapped her in a bottomless pit. After a few days he threw a rope to get her out and out crawled a demon begging the man to not send him back for the wife was awful. The demon helped the man obtain countless amounts of money. Afterwards the man tricked the demon back into the pit.

"The Three Copecks": An orphan received a cat and let a merchant take it with him across the sea. When the merchant was in a inn the keeper asked for the cat and gave him a large amount of gold for it. When returned to the land he gave the orphan the gold and the boy went and bought incense with the gold and burned it. An old man appeared and gave him a wife.

"The Miser": A rich man owed a poor old man money and could not pay him back because he didn't have enough change. He then tried to trick the old man into thinking he was dead and eventually gave in and split all of his money with the old man.

"The Water Snake": A girl married a snake and when she went home for a visit her mother snuck off and killed the snake. The girl fried and told her two children to fly off as bird.



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