The tale "Baba Yaga" tells how good always wins. The evil stepmother wanted to bring her stepdaughter out of the world and give her to the bloodthirsty Baba Yaga. But her aunt helped the girl with wise advice. So the girl remained alive, and her stepmother got what she deserved.
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There lived a grandfather and a woman; grandfather became a widow and married another wife, and from his first wife he had a girl. The evil stepmother did not love her, beat her and thought how to completely lime.
Since the father has gone somewhere, the stepmother says to the girl:
Go to your aunt, my sister, ask her for a needle and thread - to sew a shirt for you.
And this aunt was a Baba Yaga with a bone leg.
Here the girl was not stupid, but first she went to her own aunt.
Hello auntie!
Hello dear! Why did you come?
Mother sent to her sister to ask for a needle and thread - to sew a shirt for me. She teaches her:
There, niece, a birch tree will lash you in the eyes - you tie it up with a ribbon; there the gates will creak and slam for you - you pour oil under their heels; there the dogs will tear you - you throw them some bread; there the cat will tear your eyes - you give him ham. The girl went; Here comes, goes and came. There is a hut, and in it sits a Baba Yaga with a bone leg and weaves.
Hello auntie!
Hello dear!
Mother sent me to ask you for a needle and thread - to sew a shirt for me.
Good: sit down to weave for a while.
Here the girl sat down at the cross, and the Baba Yaga came out and said to her worker:
Go, heat the bath and wash your niece, but look, well; I want to have breakfast with her.
The girl sits neither alive nor dead, all frightened, and she asks the worker:
My dear! You don’t set fire to firewood so much as fill it with water, carry water with a sieve, - and gave her a handkerchief.
Baba Yaga is waiting; she went to the window and asked:
Weave, aunty, weave, dear!
Baba Yaga walked away, and the girl gave the cat ham and asked:
Is there any way to get out of here?
Here's a comb and a towel for you, - says the cat, - take them and run, run as quickly as possible; Baba Yaga will chase after you, you put your ear to the ground and when you hear that it is close, first throw a towel - a wide river will become; if the Baba Yaga crosses the river and starts to catch up with you, you again put your ear to the ground and, when you hear that she is close, throw the comb - a dense forest will become, she will no longer make her way through it!
The girl took a towel and a comb and ran; the dogs wanted to tear her up - she threw them some bread, and they let her through; the gates wanted to slam shut - she poured oil under their heels, and they let her through; the birch tree wanted to quilt her eyes - she tied it up with a ribbon, and she let her through. And the cat sat down at the cross and weaves; not so much stumbled as messed up. Baba Yaga went to the window and asked:
Do you weave, niece, do you weave, dear?
Weave, aunt, weave, dear! - the cat answers rudely. Baba Yaga rushed into the hut, saw that the girl had left, and let's beat the cat and scold why he hadn't scratched out the girl's eyes.
I serve you for how long, - says the cat, - you didn’t give me bones, but she gave me ham.
Baba Yaga pounced on the dogs, on the gate, on the birch and on the worker, let's scold and beat everyone.
The dogs say to her:
We serve you for how long, you didn’t throw us a burnt crust, but she gave us bread.
Gate says:
We serve you so much, you didn’t pour water under our heels, and she didn’t cry oil for us. Berezka says:
I serve you for how long, you didn’t bandage me with a thread, but she tied me with a ribbon. The worker says:
I serve you for how long, you didn’t give me a rag, but she gave me a handkerchief.
Baba Yaga, the bone leg, quickly sat on the mortar, urged her on with a pusher, swept the trail with a broom and set off in pursuit of the girl. Here the girl put her ear to the ground and heard that the Baba Yaga was chasing, and it was already close, she took it and threw the towel; the river became so wide, so wide! Baba Yaga came to the river and gritted her teeth in anger; returned home, took her bulls and drove them to the river; the bulls drank the whole river clean.
Baba Yaga started chasing again. The girl put her ear to the ground and heard that the Baba Yaga was close, threw the comb; the forest has become so dense and terrible! Baba Yaga began to gnaw it, but no matter how hard she tried, she could not gnaw it and turned back.
And the grandfather has already arrived home and asks:
Where is my daughter?
She went to her aunt, says the stepmother. A little later, the girl ran home.
Where have you been? the father asks.
Ah, father! she says. - So and so - my mother sent me to my aunt to ask for a needle and thread - to sew a shirt for me, and my aunt, Baba Yaga, wanted to eat me.
How did you leave, daughter?
So and so, - says the girl.
Grandfather, as he learned all this, got angry with his wife and drove her out; and he himself began to live with his daughter and live and make good, and I was there, drinking honey and beer; flowed down the mustache, did not get into the mouth.
Each child lives in his own special world. There are no lies, betrayals, double standards and false truths. The kid is a green sprout that eagerly absorbs everything that happens around. And the task of adults is to help him not to be disappointed. Gently and gently introduce him to a new world for him.
Books, cartoons, games and parental stories contribute to this. Mom's songs and nursery rhymes amuse from infancy. But the main assistant to educators has always been a fairy tale. It is a storehouse of wisdom of many generations. People different peoples always dreamed of the triumph of justice. So that the hardworking person is rich, and the lazy person is poor. For the honest and wise to be happy. And so the world of fairy tales was born.
Why children should read fairy tales
There are a lot of children's books written all over the world. But no modern author, no matter how hard he tries, can compare with the people. Folk tales have a unique system of images. They soothe, entertain, lull, teach, educate a child, and even relieve pain.
The child is immersed in the world of fantasy and adventure, which is native to him. The fairy tale is irrational, like the thinking of the baby. The texts contain stories that are understandable for children. Learn to get out of difficult situations.
There are no halftones in children's stories. And there are oppositions of heroes: smart - stupid; bold - cowardly; honest - deceitful; hardworking - lazy, good - bad. And victory is always for the good.
But there is one classic and controversial character.
Who is Baba Yaga
This hero of folk tales haunts many researchers of Russian folklore. In some fairy tales, she is a pest and an evil witch. In others, it is a kind grandmother who supplies the heroes with magic items and useful tips. Some researchers consider her a guide to the world of the dead (thirtieth kingdom), others - a deity from Slavic mythology, others - a healer. And a completely new, bold version of the young scientists was the hypothesis of the alien origin of the heroine.
The most Russian, kindest, most ancient superheroine - Meet the protector of Mother Russia! Baba Yaga is back!
In any case, this character in a children's book cannot be called unambiguously evil. She is said to eat children. Yes, she kidnapped many. But she hasn't eaten anyone yet. Rather, she prepared a test, after which the hero moves to a new level of personal maturity.
The young men must go to distant lands and get some kind of treasured item, snatching from the clutches of the “miracle Yuda”, the Serpent Gorynych or Koshchei the Immortal. Before that, having fought with him in an unequal battle.
And it is enough for the girls to cope with the impossible work in the house of a mysterious old woman.
Summary of the tale of Baba Yaga
The old man's wife dies. The daughter was left an orphan. The man grieved, and he married again. The stepmother disliked the girl, offended her. And figured out how to tell. Sent to her sister Baba Yaga for a needle and thread. And her aunt advised the girl to take a handkerchief, butter, bread, a ribbon, a piece of meat (ham) with her.
Baba Yaga wanted to eat her named niece. And the girl appeased everyone. She gave Yaga a handkerchief to help. She gave bread to the dogs so that they would not bite, to the cat - ham, so that he would not scratch out his eyes and suggested what to do. I tied the birch with a ribbon so that it would not quilt. She poured oil under the heels of the gates so that they would not slam shut. She took two magic items from the table: a comb and a handkerchief. And she ran away.
Yaga, let's scold your servants. And the worker told her: “How long I serve you, you didn’t say a good word to me, but you didn’t give me a rag. And she spoke to me kindly and gave me a handkerchief. And the dogs complained that they had never been thrown a burnt crust, and the girl paid off with bread. And the grandmother's cat had never seen a bone, and then they treated him to ham. And the gates were glad that the girl did not spare them butter and poured it under the heels. And the hostess never lubricated with water. And the birch answered that they had never tied it with a thread. And the girl gave a ribbon.
The girl runs and listens. She heard the chase, threw a handkerchief, the lake spilled. Baba Yaga coped with the obstacle. Then the little heroine threw down the comb, and a dense forest arose. Through it the sorceress was not to get over.
The stepdaughter returned home. Father told everything. The father drove the stepmother out of the house with a dirty broomstick. In another version of the tale, he shot. And they began to live with their daughter together.
And the moral of the story is this: good always triumphs over evil. Baba Yaga and her sister paid for their evil thoughts. And the forest witch should have handled her faithful retinue better. Then they would not have betrayed her for oil, handkerchiefs and ribbons.
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There lived a grandfather and a woman; grandfather became a widow and married another wife, and from his first wife he had a girl. The evil stepmother did not love her, beat her and thought how to completely lime.
Since the father has gone somewhere, the stepmother says to the girl:
- Go to your aunt, my sister, ask her for a needle and thread - to sew a shirt for you.
And this aunt was a Baba Yaga with a bone leg.
Here the girl was not stupid, but first she went to her own aunt.
- Hello, auntie!
- Hello, dear! Why did you come?
- Mother sent to her sister to ask for a needle and thread - to sew a shirt for me. She teaches her:
- There, niece, a birch tree will lash you in the eyes - you tie it up with a ribbon; there the gates will creak and slam for you - you pour oil under their heels; there the dogs will tear you - you throw them some bread; there the cat will tear your eyes - you give him ham. The girl went; Here comes, goes and came. There is a hut, and in it sits a Baba Yaga with a bone leg and weaves.
- Hello, auntie!
- Hello, dear!
“Mother sent me to ask you for a needle and thread to sew a shirt for me.”
- All right: sit down to weave for a while.
Here the girl sat down at the cross, and the Baba Yaga came out and said to her worker:
- Go, heat the bath and wash your niece, but look, good; I want to have breakfast with her.
The girl sits neither alive nor dead, all frightened, and she asks the worker:
- My dear! You don’t so much set fire to firewood as fill it with water, carry water with a sieve, - and gave her a handkerchief.
Baba Yaga is waiting; she went to the window and asked:
- Weave, auntie, weave, dear!
Baba Yaga walked away, and the girl gave the cat ham and asked:
"Is there any way to get out of here?"
“Here is a comb and a towel for you,” says the cat, “take them and run away; Baba Yaga will chase after you, you put your ear to the ground and when you hear that it is close, first throw a towel - a wide, wide river will become; if the Baba Yaga crosses the river and starts chasing you, you again put your ear to the ground and when you hear that she is close, throw the comb - it will become a dense, dense forest, she will no longer make her way through it!
The girl took a towel and a comb and ran; the dogs wanted to tear her up - she threw them some bread, and they let her through; the gates wanted to slam shut - she poured oil under their heels, and they let her through; the birch tree wanted to quilt her eyes - she tied it up with a ribbon, and she let her through. And the cat sat down at the cross and weaves; not so much stumbled as messed up. Baba Yaga went to the window and asked:
Are you weaving, niece, are you weaving, dear?
- Weave, aunt, weave, dear! the cat replies rudely. Baba Yaga rushed into the hut, saw that the girl had left, and let's beat the cat and scold why he hadn't scratched out the girl's eyes.
“I serve you for how long,” says the cat, “you didn’t give me bones, but she gave me ham.”
Baba Yaga pounced on the dogs, on the gate, on the birch and on the worker, let's scold and beat everyone. The dogs say to her:
- We serve you for how long, you didn’t throw us a burnt crust, but she gave us bread. Gate says:
- We serve you for how long, you didn’t pour water under our heels, but she added oil to us. » Birch says:
“I’ve been serving you for how long, you didn’t bandage me with a thread, but she tied me with a ribbon. The worker says:
“I’ve been serving you for how long, you didn’t give me a rag, but she gave me a handkerchief.
Baba Yaga, the bone leg, quickly sat on the mortar, urged her on with a pusher, swept the trail with a broom and set off in pursuit of the girl. Here the girl put her ear to the ground and heard that the Baba Yaga was chasing, and it was already close, she took it and threw the towel; the river became so wide, so wide! Baba Yaga came to the river and gritted her teeth in anger; returned home, took her bulls and drove them to the river; the bulls drank the whole river. clean.
Baba Yaga started chasing again. The girl put her ear to the ground and heard that the Baba Yaga was close, threw the comb; the forest has become so dense and terrible! Baba Yaga began to gnaw it, but no matter how hard she tried, she could not gnaw it and turned back.
And the grandfather has already arrived home and asks:
- Where is my daughter?
“She went to her aunt,” the stepmother says. A little later, the girl ran home.
- Where have you been? the father asks.
— Ah, father! she says. - So and so - my mother sent me to my aunt to ask for a needle and thread - to sew a shirt for me, and my aunt, Baba Yaga, wanted to eat me.
- How did you leave, daughter?
“So and so,” says the girl.
Grandfather, as he learned all this, became angry with his wife and shot her; and he himself began to live with his daughter and live and make good, and I was there, drinking honey and beer; flowed down the mustache, did not get into the mouth.
1 stepmother.
Once upon a time there was a man and a woman, and a girl was born to them - a little white, pretty. The girl grows year after year, her parents do not get enough of her.
Once trouble knocked on their hut - the woman died. The peasant grieved - grieved, and married another. And she was a vicious, quarrelsome woman. She disliked the girl at first sight and decided to kill her from the world.
Just once, the father went to the city to the market, and the stepmother said to the girl:
- Go to my sister in the forest, and ask her for a needle and thread. I want to make you a shirt.
And my stepmother's sister was not easy. Baba Yaga - Bone leg was called. The girl found out about that, burst into burning tears. And she went first to her dear, dear aunt. That aunt taught her:
- You take butter, a handkerchief and sausages with you to Yaga - the old woman. When you arrive, the gates will beat you and not let you in. You add oil to them under the hinges.
The black cat will tear you with its claws. You give him a piece of sausage.
The servant of Baba Yaga will heat the stove for you, and boil the cast-iron cauldron, and you give her a silk handkerchief.
And when you sit down at the table and eat, do not throw away the bones. Put them in your bosom. Perhaps they will come in handy.
2. Home of Baba Yaga
The girl did everything, as her aunt said, and went to Baba Yaga. And that house stands in a dense forest. Around the house there is a fence with a palisade, and human skulls hang on the stakes and in their eyes the splinter shines.
The girl knocked on the gate. She wanted to enter, but where is there - the gate does not allow her to pass. They creak menacingly, and look they will beat him. Then she poured a little oil under their eyelets, and they let her in.
The girl went into the yard, she wanted to go up to the house and where there! The cat is black, shaggy growls at her - hisses, does not allow passage, and look at it will scratch out her eyes. The girl gave him a piece of sausage, and he relented.
The girl entered the house. Baba Yaga is sitting on the stove - a bone leg, looking at her with her terrible eyes:
- Why did you come? - He speaks.
“My stepmother sent me for a thread with a needle,” the girl replies.
Old Yaga laughed. She called her servant, told her to feed and drink the girl, heat the oven, and boil the girl in the oven. And then cook in a cast-iron cauldron.
She said so and herself away from the hut.
Here the servant fed and watered her, began to heat the stove. And the girl tidied up the bones in her bosom and asked her:
- Tell me, tell me, what awaits me? - and she also gave her a silk handkerchief.
The servant was delighted and immediately told the girl everything.
- He will eat you, - he says, - Yaga at dinner, and he will give your bones to the dogs.
The girl cried and asked her:
"Let me go free, have pity!"
It was a pity for the servant girl. She says:
- I'll heat the bathhouse to the heat, and for now you run, that there are forces. Go ahead and save yourself.
3. Escape
The girl ran without looking back. Just away from the threshold, and then the cat meets her. But he does not bite, does not growl, does not scratch his face with his claws. Affectionate such. The cat gave her a comb and a towel for the journey and punishes:
- Yaga Baba will catch up with you, throw a towel behind you - a wide river will become. The old woman cannot swim through it. As soon as you catch up again - throw a comb behind you - a dense forest will become. The old one cannot pass through it.
The girl ran through the gates away from the hut, and they only opened wider to meet her and quietly shut themselves.
A girl runs from the hut, and rabid dogs meet her. She took out the bones from her bosom and threw them to them. The dogs pounced on the bones, fell silent and fell behind.
In the meantime, Baba Yaga, the Bone Leg, returned home.
She asks her servant:
Is the girl ready?
“Oh, not ready yet,” the servant replies, and you know yourself heating the bathhouse.
How much - how little time passes, Yaga asks again:
Is the girl ready?
“Soon, soon,” the clerk replies.
How long - how short, for the third time Yaga asks:
Is the girl ready?
“Oh, just a little more,” the servant responds.
The old woman suspected something was wrong. She ran into the bath and sees - there is no girl.
4. Not kept
Then Baba Yaga became what the light is worth scolding the servant:
“You are such a melting one, why did you let the girl go?!
And the servant answers her:
- I have never seen a white rag from you, but she gave me a handkerchief.
The old woman rushed into the yard, and there was a cat. She screams at him:
Why did you let the girl go? Why didn't he gouge her eyes out?
The cat answers her:
“I never saw a piece of dry bread from you, but she gave me sausages.
Yaga the old woman rushed to the gate:
- Well, why did you miss the girl?
Gates answer:
- You never poured raw water under our hinges and water, but she added oil to us.
Then Baba Yaga rushed through the forest - flies, hurries, trees bend to the ground.
A girl runs and feels - Yaga is catching up with her, is about to catch up. She threw a towel behind her and the river became wide. Baba Yaga and lagged behind.
That's how much time passes again the old woman catches up with her. Then the girl threw a comb and a dense forest grew behind her. No matter how much Yaga gnawed at him, no matter how much he broke trees, he could not pass.
And the girl, meanwhile, safely reached the house. Then my father returned from the market. As soon as he found out about everything, he immediately kicked his wife out of the house. And they began to live together with the girl, live and make good.
A bit about fairy-tale folklore
Do you know what is the peculiarity of traditional Slavic folklore? He is very bloodthirsty! No, seriously, if today we told fairy tales the way our ancestors did, children would probably not be able to fall asleep at night. Who knows, maybe this is typical for any nation.
Over time, when society became more and more “cultivated”, traditional fairy-tale heroes. The modern fairy-tale Baba Yaga, although scary, is no longer so frightening, inducing chilling horror, as it was before. Although, some descriptions still inspire genuine horror to this day:
“... a fence around the hut made of human bones, human skulls with eyes stick out on the fence; instead of doors at the gate - human legs, instead of locks - hands, instead of a lock - a mouth with sharp teeth ".
This is from a fairy tale. Creepy, isn't it?
Well, in front of you, one of the most famous versions of the fairy tale about Baba Yaga. Pretty kind, and at the same time, retained the spirit of traditional Russian culture.
Once upon a time there was a husband and wife, they had a daughter. One day his wife became very ill and died. The man grieved, grieved, and he married another woman. The wicked stepmother took a dislike to the girl, beat her, scolded her, and only thought how to completely lime, destroy her.
Once, the father somehow left somewhere, and the stepmother called the girl to her and said to her:
Go to my sister, your aunt, and ask her for a needle and thread - to sew a shirt for you.
And this aunt was a Baba Yaga, a bone leg. The girl did not dare to refuse her stepmother, she went, but first she went to her own aunt.
Hello auntie!
Hello dear! Why did you come?
My stepmother sent me to her sister to ask for a needle and thread - she wants to sew a shirt for me.
It’s good, niece, that before you go to her, you came to me, - says the aunt. - Here's a ribbon, butter, bread and a piece of meat. If there will be a birch in your eyes, you will tie it with a ribbon; the gates will creak and clap, hold you back - you pour oil under their heels; dogs will tear you - you throw them bread; if a cat will tear your eyes - you give him meat.
The girl thanked her dear aunt and went. She walked and walked and came to the forest. There is a hut on chicken legs, on mutton horns in the forest behind a high tyn, and a baba yaga sits in the hut, a bone leg weaves a canvas.
Hello auntie!
Hello niece! Baba Yaga says. - What do you need?
My stepmother sent me to ask you for a needle and thread - to sew a shirt for me.
All right, niece, I'll give you a needle and thread, and you sit down while you work!
Here the girl sat down at the window and began to weave. And the Baba Yaga came out of the hut and said to her worker:
I'm going to bed now, and you go, heat the bathhouse and wash your niece. Yes, look, wash it well: wake up - eat it!
The girl heard these words - sits neither alive nor dead. As the Baba Yaga left, she began to ask the worker:
My dear, you do not so much set fire to firewood in the oven, but fill it with water, and carry water with a sieve! And gave her a handkerchief.
The worker is heating the bath, and the Baba Yaga woke up, went to the window and asked:
Do you weave, niece, do you weave, dear?
Weave, aunty, weave, dear!
Baba Yaga went to bed again, and the girl gave meat to the cat and asked:
Brother cat, teach me how to run away from here.
cat and says:
There is a towel and a comb on the table, take them and run as soon as possible: otherwise the Baba Yaga will eat it! Baba Yaga will chase after you - you put your ear to the ground. When you hear that she is close, throw a comb - a dense dense forest will grow. While she is wading through the forest, you will run far away. And again you hear the chase - throw a towel: a wide and deep river will spill.
Thank you, cat brother! - says the girl. She thanked the cat and gave him a piece of meat for this, while she herself took a towel and a scallop and ran.
Dogs rushed at her, wanted to tear her, bite her, - she gave them bread. The dogs missed her. The gates creaked, they wanted to slam shut - and the girl poured oil under their heels. They missed her.
The birch made a noise, wanted to quilt her eyes, - the girl bandaged her with a ribbon. Birch missed her. The girl ran out and ran as fast as she could. Runs and doesn't look back. Meanwhile, the cat sat down by the window and began to weave. Not so much weaving as confusing!
Baba Yaga woke up and asked:
Do you weave, niece, do you weave, dear?
And the cat answered her:
Weave, aunt, weave, dear.
The Baba Yaga rushed into the hut and sees that the girl is gone, and the cat is sitting and instead of her weaving a canvas. Baba Yaga began to beat and scold the cat:
Oh, you old rascal! Oh you villain! Why did you let the girl out? Why didn't he gouge her eyes out? Why didn't you scratch your face?
And the cat answered her:
I have been serving you for so many years, you didn’t throw a gnawed bone at me, but she gave me meat!
Baba Yaga ran out of the hut, attacked the dogs:
Why didn’t they tear the girl, why didn’t they bite her? .. The dogs say to her:
We have been serving you for so many years, you didn’t throw us a burnt crust, but she gave us bread! Baba Yaga ran to the gate:
Why didn't they creak, why didn't they clap? Why did they let the girl out of the yard? ..
The gate tells her:
We have been serving you for so many years, you didn’t add water to our heels, but she didn’t spare us oil!
Baba Yaga then jumped up to the birch:
Why didn't she gouge the girl's eyes?
Birch answers her:
I have been serving you for so many years, you didn’t tie me up with a thread, but she gave me a ribbon!
Baba Yaga began to scold the worker:
Why didn’t you, such and such, wake me up, didn’t call me? Why was she released?
And the worker says to her:
I have been serving you for so many years - I have never heard a kind word from you, but she gave me a handkerchief, she spoke well and kindly to me!
Baba Yaga shouted, made a noise, then sat down in a mortar and rushed off in pursuit. He drives with a pestle, sweeps the trail with a broom ...
And the girl ran and ran, stopped, put her ear to the ground and hears: the earth is trembling, shaking - the Baba Yaga is chasing, and very close ... Then the girl took out a comb and threw it over her right shoulder. A forest has grown here, dense and tall: the roots of the trees go three fathoms underground, the tops of the clouds prop up. Baba Yaga rushed in, began to gnaw and break the forest. She gnaws and breaks, and the girl runs further.
How much, how little time has passed, the girl put her ear to the ground and hears: the earth is trembling, shaking - Baba Yaga is chasing, and it’s very close. The girl took a towel and threw it over her right shoulder. At the same moment, the river overflowed - wide, very wide, deep, very deep! Baba Yaga jumped up to the river, gritted her teeth in anger - she couldn’t cross the river. She returned home, gathered her bulls and drove to the river:
Drink, my bulls! Drink the whole river to the bottom!
The bulls began to drink, but the water in the river does not decrease. The Baba Yaga got angry, lay down on the shore, and began to drink water herself. She drank, she drank, she drank, she drank, she drank until she burst.
And the girl, meanwhile, knows that she is running and running. In the evening, the father returned home and asked: from his wife:
Where is my daughter?
Baba answers him:
She went to her aunt - to ask for a needle and thread, but something was delayed.
The father got worried, he wanted to go look for his daughter, but the daughter ran home, out of breath, she could not catch her breath.
Where have you been, daughter? the father asks.
Ah, father! - the girl answers. - The evil stepmother sent me to her sister, and her sister is a baba-yaga, a bone leg. She wanted to eat me. I ran away from her!
As the father found out all this, he became angry with the evil woman and drove her out of the house with a dirty broom. And he began to live together with his daughter, together and well.
* * * Here the fairy tale ends. * * *
There lived a grandfather and a woman; grandfather became a widow and married another wife, and from his first wife he had a girl. The evil stepmother did not love her, beat her and thought how to completely lime.
Since the father has gone somewhere, the stepmother says to the girl:
- Go to your aunt, my sister, ask her for a needle and thread - to sew a shirt for you.
And this aunt was a Baba Yaga with a bone leg.
Here the girl was not stupid, but first she went to her own aunt.
- Hello, auntie!
- Hello, dear! Why did you come?
- Mother sent to her sister to ask for a needle and thread - to sew a shirt for me. She teaches her:
- There, niece, a birch tree will lash you in the eyes - you tie it up with a ribbon; there the gates will creak and slam for you - you pour oil under their heels; there the dogs will tear you - you throw them some bread; there the cat will tear your eyes - you give him ham. The girl went; Here comes, goes and came. There is a hut, and in it sits a Baba Yaga with a bone leg and weaves.
- Hello, auntie!
- Hello, dear!
“Mother sent me to ask you for a needle and thread to sew a shirt for me.”
- All right: sit down to weave for a while.
Here the girl sat down at the cross, and the Baba Yaga came out and said to her worker:
- Go, heat the bath and wash your niece, but look, good; I want to have breakfast with her.
The girl sits neither alive nor dead, all frightened, and she asks the worker:
- My dear! You don’t so much set fire to firewood as fill it with water, carry water with a sieve, - and gave her a handkerchief.
Baba Yaga is waiting; she went to the window and asked:
- Weave, auntie, weave, dear!
Baba Yaga walked away, and the girl gave the cat ham and asked:
"Is there any way to get out of here?"
“Here’s a comb and a towel for you,” says the cat, “take them and run, run as quickly as possible; Baba Yaga will chase after you, you put your ear to the ground and when you hear that it is close, first throw a towel - a wide river will become; if the Baba Yaga crosses the river and starts to catch up with you, you again put your ear to the ground and, when you hear that she is close, throw the comb - a dense forest will become, she will no longer make her way through it!
The girl took a towel and a comb and ran; the dogs wanted to tear her up - she threw them some bread, and they let her through; the gates wanted to slam shut - she poured oil under their heels, and they let her through; the birch tree wanted to quilt her eyes - she tied it up with a ribbon, and she let her through. And the cat sat down at the cross and weaves; not so much stumbled as messed up. Baba Yaga went to the window and asked:
Are you weaving, niece, are you weaving, dear?
- Weave, aunt, weave, dear! the cat replies rudely. Baba Yaga rushed into the hut, saw that the girl had left, and let's beat the cat and scold why he hadn't scratched out the girl's eyes.
“I serve you for how long,” says the cat, “you didn’t give me bones, but she gave me ham.”
Baba Yaga pounced on the dogs, on the gate, on the birch and on the worker, let's scold and beat everyone.
The dogs say to her:
- We serve you for how long, you didn’t throw us a burnt crust, but she gave us bread.
Gate says:
- We serve you for how long, you didn’t add water under the heels to us, but she didn’t cry oil for us. Berezka says:
“I’ve been serving you for how long, you didn’t bandage me with a thread, but she tied me with a ribbon. The worker says:
“I’ve been serving you for how long, you didn’t give me a rag, but she gave me a handkerchief.
Baba Yaga, the bone leg, quickly sat on the mortar, urged her on with a pusher, swept the trail with a broom and set off in pursuit of the girl. Here the girl put her ear to the ground and heard that the Baba Yaga was chasing, and it was already close, she took it and threw the towel; the river became so wide, so wide! Baba Yaga came to the river and gritted her teeth in anger; returned home, took her bulls and drove them to the river; the bulls drank the whole river clean.
Baba Yaga started chasing again. The girl put her ear to the ground and heard that the Baba Yaga was close, threw the comb; the forest has become so dense and terrible! Baba Yaga began to gnaw it, but no matter how hard she tried, she could not gnaw it and turned back.
And the grandfather has already arrived home and asks:
- Where is my daughter?
“She went to her aunt,” the stepmother says. A little later, the girl ran home.
- Where have you been? the father asks.
— Ah, father! she says. - So and so - my mother sent me to my aunt to ask for a needle and thread - to sew a shirt for me, and my aunt, Baba Yaga, wanted to eat me.
- How did you leave, daughter?
“So and so,” says the girl.
Grandfather, as he learned all this, got angry with his wife and drove her out; and he himself began to live with his daughter and live and make good, and I was there, drinking honey and beer; flowed down the mustache, did not get into the mouth.
