Tricky man. Tale how a man of geese shared the Lorelei - German folk tale
In one village there lived a poor peasant; he lived to the point that he only had one sheep and two pumpkins left. One day he lies on the stove and thinks: “I have neither bread nor flour, can I sell a sheep?” He got down from the stove, got dressed, tied the sheep on a rope and took her to the market to sell.
He walks past his church; the priest comes across him and asks: “Where did you take the sheep?” - “Sell, father.” - “Sell me?” - “Buy.” - “What are you asking for?” - “Fifty rubles.” - “What is very expensive?” - “Why, father, a lamb is not simple: one can cope with a dozen wolves.” - “Well, good!”
I gave the money to the priest and took the sheep home. Suddenly, the sheep saw two wolves, ran in, rushed, the rope broke, and the wolves grabbed it and ate it. The priest grunted, groaned, and said: “If the rope had not broken, the sheep would not have succumbed to the wolves!”
He came home and said to the priest: “Well, mother, I bought a lamb!” - "Well, OK. Did he give much? - “Fifty rubles.” - “What is painfully expensive?” - “Yes, the sheep is not simple: one can cope with a dozen wolves.” - “Okay, we will let her go hunting, she will crush the wolves for us,
And I’ll sew wolf coats for you.” - "Yes, I have a problem." - "What?" - “And when I was leading a sheep, she saw two wolves, she wanted to throw herself at them, but the rope broke, she succumbed to them, the wolves ate her ...” - “Oh, oh, father! ..”
They groaned, groaned, but there was nothing to do.
And the peasant, having received money for a sheep, bought flour and baked bread, sat down on a bench and thought: “Now I have bread, but no salt. I’ll go and cut two pumpkins, sell them and buy myself some salt.”
I cut two pumpkins, put them in a basket and went to sell them. He walks past the church, the priest again comes across him and asks: “Where, little man, did you go?” - "To the city." - "Why?" - "Sell foal eggs." - "Sell me." - "Buy." - "How much do you ask?" - “Ten rubles.” - “What is expensive?” - “Yes, what kind of foals will sit out!” - "And you teach me how to sit them out."
“And when you get home, put the eggs in the pestle and sit on them - in a month they will hatch with you.”
I gave the priest the money, took the pumpkins and went home. He comes home and tells the priest how he bought foal eggs and what needs to be done with them in order to hatch foals. Popadya gave him a motley and told him to put it on the floor. Here the pop sat down; he sits for a day, sits for two, sits for a week, does not leave the motley and thinks: "Soon my foals will hatch."
It happened that at that time a son was born to the master, and the master sent his coachman to the priest, so that he would come and give the baby a name. The coachman comes to the priest and asks the priest: “Where is the father?” - "What do you need?" - "A master's son was born, so you need to give him a name." - "He sits on the floor on the eggs." The coachman went up to the beds and said: “Father! Our master had a son, so go give him a name. ”-“ I won’t go! replied the pope angrily. "Please, father!" - “I told you: I won’t go, I won’t go! Because of your master, I can’t lose my foals.”
So the priest did not go to the master.
The coachman comes to the master and says that the priest is not coming. Then the master took the whip and went himself. He comes to the priest and says: “Father! Give my son a name!" - "I told you that I would not go," answered the priest. "Please, father!" - "Go to hell with your son!" pop shouted. Here is the master and let's whip him with a whip. The priest twirled and shivered for a long time, finally he became unbearable, jumped off the rack, grabbed his motley and, holding it as he was sitting on it, rushed to run into the field, and the master with a whip followed him.
The priest ran to the garden, and in this place near the garden there was a heap of brushwood, on which two hares were sitting. And the priest wanted to climb over the garden, but he touched the stake with the pestle; the pester remained on the stake, and the priest fell on the brushwood. The hares got scared and jumped out, and the priest thought they were his foals and chased them. Runs after them and shouts: “Go-go-go! Foals, I am your queen!"
The hares ran into the forest; The priest ran for a long time through the forest, could not find his foals, and returned home empty-handed.
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A peasant is a frequent hero of Russian folk tales. This character is also found in fairy tales about animals (“Tops and Roots)”, and in everyday ones (“About Need”, “The Master and the Man”), and in fairy tales (“Ivan, the Peasant's Son”). There is a special category of works that merges with epics and legends. A striking example of such a fairy tale is "Nikita Kozhemyaka".
A man in Russian folk tales
The image of a peasant peasant in folk tales
Whatever the genre of the work, the image of a peasant has characteristic features:
- Relative poverty. A man doesn't have to be completely poor. He can also be quite wealthy. But in any case, he is poorer than a priest, a gentleman or a merchant, not to mention the king. In this case, poverty is usually a virtue. More precisely, this quality is characteristic of a positive character. If two men, rich and poor, appear in a fairy tale, the narrator's sympathies will be on the side of the second.
- lack of rights. A man, even a rich one, is at the very bottom of the social ladder. Everything for him is power, before everyone he is powerless.
- Ignorance. A man knows only what is around him - his village and the nearest city, where he goes to fairs. The rest is familiar to him only by hearsay, often in a distorted form. He is naive and is often the victim of a cruel joke or deceit.
But the peasant knowingly became one of the key characters of the folk tale. He compensates for his disadvantaged position with personal qualities.
- natural mind. Let the peasant be uneducated, but he has a practical mind and common sense. And that's why he can prevail in a dispute with the priest, and with the king, and with the landowner. In Tops and Roots, a man cannot cope with a stupid, but strong and greedy bear, so he deceives him.
- Justice. Even trying to get out of a difficult situation, the peasant does not deceive the disadvantaged and does not offend the weak. The victims of his jokes, albeit sometimes evil ones, are only those who deserve such an attitude. In the fairy tale “About Need”, a man steals horses from his master. But the master is not rich because he worked hard. He is a slacker, profiting from the labor of others, while being stupid and indifferent. And the peasant not only took the troika away, he showed the master what need is - that is, he put him in a position equal to his own.
- industriousness. In folk tales, especially everyday ones, a lot of attention is paid to hard peasant labor. A man works from dawn to dusk, without complaints or reproaches.
- Generosity and mercy. To share the last loaf of bread with the needy, to give the last handyman to the destitute is a common plot device in Russian folk tales. The main character, who finds himself in a difficult situation, is often helped by a poor peasant, and not by a boyar or a priest. The plot of the tale "Ivan, the peasant's son" is just such a plot: a peasant selflessly helps a wounded eagle, nurses him.
Wherein folk tale does not idealize the man. Often the peasant is cowardly, cautious - this is a consequence of his hard life. In many fairy tales, the exceptional poverty of a peasant is explained by his own stupidity and impracticality. A pronounced feature of the character of this character is a naive dream of instant wealth without much effort. A classic example is the fairy tale "At the command of a pike." Emelya was lazy and stupid, but he caught a magic pike and his life changed. He became rich, smart, handsome, almost omnipotent and married a princess. For people who worked hard day after day, such a dream of a magical helper who would simply give happiness was the only way to brighten up a difficult life.
But all these shortcomings only make the character more humane. A man in fairy tales is the salt of the earth, the one on whom the state rests, even if it is fabulous. And when trouble comes, he rises with his chest to defend the fatherland. A man does this without joy - he is peaceful and does not like to fight. But he won't let the enemy down either. Nikita Kozhemyaka, Ilya Muromets come from the peasant class. To us, contemporaries, a folk tale may seem too simple, naive, even somewhat ridiculous. But she is always sincere. This is how people who lived many centuries ago saw the world. The Russian man is outwardly modest. This is not a hero in shining armor. But he lives, fights and wins - the way he can.
One poor peasant ran out of bread. So he decided to ask the master for bread. In order to have something to go to the master, he caught a goose, roasted it and carried it. The master accepted the goose and said to the peasant:
Thank you, man, you for the goose; I just don’t know how we are going to share your goose. I have a wife, two sons and two daughters. How can we share a goose without resentment?
The man says:
I will share.
He took a knife, cut off his head and said to the master:
You are the head of the whole house - your head.
Then he cut off the back, gives it to the mistress.
You, - he says, - to sit at home, look after the house - you back.
Then he cut off the paws and gives it to his sons.
You, - he says, - legs - to stomp on his father's paths.
And gave wings to his daughters.
You, - he says, - will soon fly away from home, here's a wing for you. I'll take the rest!
And took the whole goose.
The master laughed and gave the peasant bread and money.
A rich peasant heard that the master rewarded the poor peasant with bread and money for a goose, roasted five geese and carried them to the master.
Barin says:
Thanks for the goose. Yes, I have a wife, two sons, two daughters - all six. How can we evenly divide your geese?
The rich man began to think and came up with nothing.
The master sent for the poor peasant and ordered to share.
The poor peasant took one goose and gave it to the master and the lady, and said:
Here are the three of you with the goose.
He gave one to his sons:
And you, - says, - three.
He gave one to his daughters:
And there are three of you.
And he took two geese.
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Smart man - Russian folk tale
A fairy tale about a savvy poor man who knew how to share everything fairly and not offend himself!
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In one village there lived two peasants: one was rich, and the other was poor. A rich man has plenty of everything, and a poor man has many children, and all that is good is one goose.
And it came to the point that there was nothing to feed the poor children. What are you going to do here? I thought and thought about how to be, how to feed the children, and thought up:
Fire, hostess, goose!
They roasted a goose, put it on the table, but there was not a crumb of bread. The man says:
Well, how can we eat without bread, how long will it last us? I’d better take the goose to the master, I’ll ask him for bread.
Go, hubby, go, - says the wife, - maybe even half a bag of flour will give.
A man came to the master:
I brought you a goose, do not hesitate to accept it, but give me at least a little flour - there is nothing to feed the children with.
Okay, the bartender says. - You knew how to give a goose, manage to divide it between us without offense.
If you divide without resentment, I will order you to reward, but if you fail, I will order you to flog.
And that gentleman has a family: he and his wife, two sons and two daughters - six in all.
The man asked for a knife and began to divide the goose. First he cut off his head, gives the master:
You are the head of the whole house - so here is your goose head.
He cut off the tail, gives the lady:
You sit at home, look after the house - here's your tail.
He cut off his paws, gives to his sons:
Here's a leg for you - to stomp your father's paths.
And he gave his daughters wings:
You and your father, with your mother, will not live forever - you will grow up, fly away, twist your nest.
I took the rest. And the man is mad and stupid - I'll eat a chlop.
The bartender laughed:
Well, man, he divided the goose and did not remain offended!
He brought a glass of wine and ordered two sacks of flour to be given to the poor peasant.
A rich man heard about it, envied the poor man. He roasted five fat geese, brought the master, bows himself:
Do not disdain, your grace, to accept five fed geese as a bow from me!
Thank you brother, thank you! If you managed to give geese, manage to share your gift between us without offense. If you divide without resentment, I will reward you, but if you fail to divide, I will order you to be flogged at the stable.
A rich man is standing, figuring this way and that - there’s no way he can divide five geese between six people.
The gentleman called the poor man:
Can you divide five geese between us without offense?
Why not share! the poor man replies.
Serves one goose to the master with the lady:
There are two of you - here's a goose for you. Now there are three of you.
He gave another goose to his two sons:
And now there are three of you.
The third is given to two daughters:
And there were three of you.
I took the other two geese for myself:
And there were three of us. No one is offended.
Barin laughed.
Well, well done man! He knew how to divide, and he did not forget himself!
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