About the Bewitched tree
Very long ago it was - thousand two years ago. Veins yes the rich person existed, and the wife at it was beautiful and богобоязненная, and they loved each other warmly, and children at them were not. Very much they would like to have children; and the wife prayed for it both day, and night, and children nevertheless were not and was not...
Before their house there was a court yard; among that court yard the branchy tree grew, and under that tree once in winter there was a wife and cut off a knife a peel from an apple. Cut off and has knifed to itself a finger so blood has dripped on snow. "Ah! - the wife has told and has deeply sighed, and, having looked at blood drops, has spoken with grief: - Here if I had such baby: as blood ruddy yes as snow the white!"
And as soon as it has uttered it, at it suddenly so полегчало on a shower as though its desire could come true really, and it has gone home absolutely consoled.
Has passed since then about one year. The wife all was unwell and, complaining of the health, time and again used to say to the husband: "If I die, bury me under that tree that grows at us among a court yard".
In the end of a year she has given birth to the son, white as snow and ruddy as blood and when she has seen it was delighted so, that from pleasure and has died. The husband has buried the wife at will under that tree that grew among a court yard, and very much over it mourned; a little later it began already less on it to cry, and there and has absolutely ceased; and more how many time took later to itself in the house other wife.
From the second wife the daughter was born, and from the first wife there was a pretty sonny, ruddy as blood and white as snow.
When the stepmother looked at the daughter, it seemed to it the lovely baby and as will look, happened, on the pretty stepson, at it and will prick in heart - immediately will come to it in a head, that it to it across road became, and кабы not it, all riches of the father would get to her daughter.
Also she began to be angry with the pretty stepson, and began to push it from a corner in a corner: both here щипнет, and there щипнет so the poor child lived in constant fear. And when he came back home from school, it did not have any minute of rest.
Once the stepmother has gone to the светелку, and its pretty daughter has come to it and has told: "the Mother, give me an apple". - "All right, the baby", - mother has told to it and has given it a wonderful apple from the chest; and at a chest the cover was heavy-pretjazhelaja, and the lock at it big, iron, with a sharp teeth. "The mother, - has told the pretty girl, - you and to the brother too will give an apple?" It has annoyed her mother, however it has restrained and has told: "And to it I will give, when it will come from school".
And just at this time has seen from a window, that the stepson comes back home; here as if the demon under a hand has pushed it, it has taken away an apple from a daughter and has told: "And you before the brother I will not give". Has thrown an apple in a chest and has closed its cover.
When the stepson has entered into a door, dirty has set it tenderly to tell to it: "the Sonny! Whether you from me wish to receive an apple?" And itself has looked at it askance. "The mother, - the boy has told, - that you it so on me look? Well, give me an apple!" - "we will go with me, - she has told and has opened a chest cover. - here, choose any".
And when the boy has bent down over a chest, a demon and push it under a hand of r-times! - it has slammed a cover with такою силою, that the head of the boy has jumped aside from a trunk and has fallen among ruddy apples. Here she has got a fright and began to think: "As though to me it from itself to fall down?" And here it has come into the room, has taken out a white scarf from a box, has again put a head to a trunk, has tied to the dead stepson a neck so, that it was appreciable nothing, and has planted it on a chair before дверьми, and in a hand has given it an apple.
A little to mother the daughter later has come to kitchen and has seen, that mother faces to fire, and before it a wash-tub with hot water in which it something rinses. "The mother, - has told a daughter, - the brother sits before дверьми бледныйпребледный and holds an apple in a hand; I was have asked it that it has given an apple to me, but he has answered nothing to me, and to me it became terrible". - "And you go to it once again, - mother has told, - and if he answers nothing to you, give to it on an ear". The daughter also has precisely gone and has told: "the Brother, give me an apple". But he has answered nothing to it. Then it has struck it on an ear, and its head has fallen down from shoulders.
The girl has terribly got a fright and has started to cry and shout, and has run to mother. "Ah, the mother, I has brought down a head to my brother!" - both cried, and cried, and it could not be consoled. "The daughter, - has told mother, - that you have done? But now become silent, that anybody did not know it; after all now it you do not turn back! Give разварим it in студень".
Also the stepmother of the dead stepson took, has split it into pieces, has put it in a wash-tub and разварила in студень. And its daughter thus stood and cried, and cried, and all tears of its drop in a wash-tub so even salts in студень were not required to be put.
Here the father home has returned, has sat down to table and has told: "And where wash the son?" And mother has brought on a table the enormous dish студня, meanwhile as its daughter all cried and cried, and could not be kept from tears in any way.
The father has meanwhile asked once again: "Yes where wash the son?" The stepmother answered: "It has left on a visit to the grandfather; he there wished to remain some time". - "Yes that to it there to do? Has left, even has not said goodbye to me?" - "about, it very much would like to go there, and he asked of a permission from me to remain there this week: it after all all there caress". - "And nevertheless, - the father has told, - it is very a pity to me, that he has not said goodbye to me".
With these words it was accepted to meal and has told to a daughter: "That you cry? After all your brother will return! - then, обратясь to the wife, has added: the Wife! What you to me have submitted a tasty dish! Add to me still!" And than more he ate, especially it would be desirable it more and more, and it sentenced all: "Enclose more, let anything on a dish does not remain!" And all ate, ate, and stones all under a table threw - and at last has eaten all clean.
And the daughter has got it from a locker the best silk kerchief, has combined in it from under a table all stones and хрящики and has incurred from the house, having a shower bath bitter tears.
Leaving on средину a court yard, she has put stones in a kerchief under a tree, that there grew, on green травочку, and at it it became easy on heart, and its tears have run low.
Also she has seen, that the tree has suddenly begun to move - branches of its steel to disperse and converge, as if hands at the person when he for pleasure starts to swing hands and to slap hands together.
Then from a tree the easy fog has separated as though, and among a fog fire shone also, and from this fire the wonderful bird has taken off and has started singing a wonderful song, and has highly-highly risen in air.
When it has absolutely disappeared from a kind then also branches on a tree have ceased to move, and a scarf with stones that laid under a tree, was gone completely.
And at the sister on a shower became so easily and pleasantly as though its brother was still in live. And she has come back home cheerful, has sat down to table and began to eat.
The bird has departed also villages on the house of the goldsmith, and began to sing the song:
The stepmother has killed me,
Wash the father me has eaten.
My lovely sister
My stones has collected,
In a kerchief them has connected
And under a tree has combined.
Чивик, чивик! That I for nice a birdie!
The master sat in the workshop and did a gold chain when has heard a birdie who sang on a house roof, and the song has seemed to it very attractive.
It has risen from the place and when has descended from top to down has lost one shoe. So it and on the street middle left in one shoe and in one sock, surrounded with an apron, with a gold chain in one hand, with pincers in another...
And the sun and shone in the street! Here it also became as driven, and allow to look at a birdie. "A birdie, - he has told, - as you nicely sing! Sing to me once again the song!" - "is not present, - the birdie has told, - I twice to sing I will not begin for nothing. Give me this gold chain then I to you and once again will accustom to drinking my song". - "Here, on you a gold chain; only sing to me once again".
Then the birdie has flown up, took a gold chain in the right pad, villages against the master and has started singing:
The stepmother has killed me,
Wash the father me has eaten.
My lovely sister
My stones has collected,
In a kerchief them has connected
And under a tree has combined.
Чивик, чивик! That I for nice a birdie!
Therefrom the birdie to башмачнику has departed, has sat down to it on a roof and has started singing:
The stepmother has killed me;
Wash the father me has eaten.
My lovely sister
My stones has collected,
In a kerchief them has connected
And under a tree has combined.
Чивик, чивик! That I for nice a birdie!
Башмачник has heard a song, has run out from the house in one waistcoat and began to look at a roof, covering with a palm of an eye from the sun. "A birdie, - he has told, - yes as you nicely sing! - and the wife башмачник has caused from the house: Podi here, look at a birdie! Here so a birdie as perfectly sings!" He has then called both the daughter, and children, both journeymen, and workers, and the servant, and all left on street and looked at a bird, and admired it.
And the birdie was also precisely beautiful: plumelets on it red and green, and about a neck - as if pure gold, and eyes at it shone as an asterisk.
"A birdie, - has told башмачник, - sing you to me the song once again". "Is not present, - the birdie has told, - twice I do not sing for nothing. Present to me something". - "The Wife, - has ordered башмачник, - go to me in a workshop; there there is at me pair of absolutely ready red boots, bring them to me here".
The wife has gone and has brought boots. "Here to you, a birdie! - has told башмачник. - Well, and now sing to me the song".
The birdie has flied, took from it boots in the left pad, then has again flied up on a roof and has started singing:
The stepmother has killed me,
Wash the father me has eaten.
My lovely sister
My stones has collected,
In a kerchief them has connected
And under a tree has combined.
Чивик, чивик! That I for nice a birdie!
And having sung a song, the birdie has departed: the chain was held by it in claws of the right pad, and boots - in claws of the left pad, and it has arrived directly on a mill which worked on full to a course and tapped so: pliki-pljaki, pliki-pljaki, pliki-pljaki.
Yes on a mill sat the person twenty workers who squared жерновой a stone and beat out hammers: a tic-so, a tic-so, a tic-so - and the mill echoed their work as the постукиваньем.
The birdie has fallen on a linden which grew at the mill, and has started singing:
The stepmother has killed me...
One worker has ceased to work.
Wash the father me has eaten.
Two more have lagged behind work and have listened...
My lovely sister...
Four more have given up work...
My stones has collected,
In a kerchief them has connected...
Only eight remained at business.
And under a tree...
Only six remains...
... Has combined...
Only one continued work...
Чивик, чивик! That I for nice a birdie!
Here and last has lagged behind and too began to listen. "A birdie, - he has told, - as you nicely sing! Allow also to me to listen too, sing once again!" - "is not present, - the bird answered, - I will not begin to sing for nothing twice; give me a millstone so I once again to you will accustom to drinking". - "Yes, - he has told, - if the millstone to one belonged to me, you would receive it". - "Yes, - others have told, - if she to us once again sings, we will give it a millstone".
Then the birdie has flied downwards, and all twenty workers began to raise a millstone and to shout: "U-u-uh, u-uh, we will crash! ух!"
And the birdie only has passed a head in a millstone aperture, вздела it on a neck as a collar, and together with it has flied up on a tree and has started singing:
The stepmother has killed me,
Wash the father me has eaten.
My lovely sister
My stones has collected,
In a kerchief them has connected
And under a tree has combined.
Чивик, чивик! That I for nice a birdie!
And having sung the song, it has straightened wings and, holding in claws of the right pad a chain, in claws left - to steam of red boots, and on a neck a millstone, has departed afar, to the house of the father.
In the house the father, a daughter and the stepmother sat at a table, and the father spoke to them: "That it means, what at me today so it is easy, so is cheerful on heart?" - "is not present, - the stepmother has told, - to me something is terrible, as if the thunder-storm big would approach". And the daughter sat also all cried yes cried.
Here the birdie and villages on a roof just has arrived. "Ah, - the father has told, to me so is cheerful, and the sun so perfectly shines, and on a shower at me so it is good, as though I should meet with old знакомцем". - "Is not present, the wife has told, - it is terrible to me, it is terrible, so a tooth at a tooth I can not guide, and veins at me as if fire".
The daughter has sat down in the meantime in a corner and began to cry still more, and covered eyes with hands, and palms of its hands were absolutely wet.
The birdie has meanwhile taken seat on a tree among a court yard and began to sing:
The stepmother has killed me...
The stepmother, having heard it, has stopped up ears and has narrowed eyes, not wishing anything neither to see, nor to hear, but in its ears nevertheless there was a noise as from the strongest storm, and eyes burnt down, and in them as if the lightning shone.
The birdie continued to sing:
Wash the father me has eaten...
"Ah, the mother, - the father has told, - such nice bird there sits and sings so perfectly, and the sun so shines and heats, and smells sweet as caraway seeds".
The birdie continued:
My lovely sister...
The sister as has heard it, has buried the person in knees and began to sob violently, and the father, opposite to that, has told: "I will leave, I will look at a birdie close". - "Ah, do not go, do not go! - the wife has told. - it seems to me, that all our house in a flame".
But the husband has not obeyed her, left the house and has looked at a birdie who continued the song:
My stones has collected,
In a kerchief them has connected
And under a tree has combined.
Чивик, чивик! That I for nice a birdie!
And, having finished a song, the birdie has dumped from above a gold chain directly on a neck to the father, and the chain has had just rather.
Then he has come back home and has told: "Look, what is a wonderful bird, has presented to me a fine gold chain, and itself by sight such beautiful". The wife all former ran in horror on all house and a place could not find to itself.
And the bird has again got the same song:
The stepmother has killed me...
"Ah, if I though in the underworld was now!
If only not to hear to me this song! "- the stepmother in despair has spoken.
Wash the father me has eaten...
The stepmother at these words in exhaustion has fallen to a floor.
My lovely sister...
"Ah, - the sister has told, - I too will leave and I will look, whether the birdie" will present also to me something. And it left the house.
My stones has collected,
In a kerchief them has connected...
Here it to the sister from above has dumped red shoes.
And under a tree has combined!
Чивик, чивик! That I for nice a birdie!
Then and at the sister on heart it became easy and cheerful. She has put on new red shoes and began to dance and jump in them. "Ah, - she has told, I was so is sad, when left the house; and now to me so it is easy and good! Also that for nice a birdie - after all she has presented to me pair of red boots!" - "is not present! - her mother has told and has jumped from a place in horror, and hair have risen at it on end on a head. - it seems to me, that the end of the world has come! I can not bear: I too will leave the house - perhaps, and to me it becomes easier!"
But as soon as it has supported doors - тррах! The birdie has thrown off to it мельничий a millstone on a head and has crushed it the stepmother to death.
The father and the sister услыхали this noise also have jumped out of the house: from this places where the millstone has fallen, the smoke has tumbled down clubs, fire has then seemed, the flame and when all it has ended has flashed, they have seen before themselves the small brother who took the father and the sister for hands, and all three were happy and happy so, that have entered into the house, have sat down to table and have begun to eat. |
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