Twelve brothers
Lived yes were the king with the queen; they lived in the full consent and twelve persons of children have begot - and all were little boys.
Here the king also speaks to the queen: "If the thirteenth child whom you will give birth, is the girl all twelve boys I order to kill that also riches at it was more, and all our kingdom to one belonged to it".
He and ordered to prepare twelve coffins which have been filled by shavings, and in everyone even small покойницкое изголовьице it is necessary; on his order these coffins have been put in a special closed room, a key from which king has given to the queen and ordered to affect to nobody about that.
And here mother began to grieve on the whole days so меньшой the son who was constant at it (it it under the Bible and named Veniamin), asked it: "the Lovely mother, paternal you such sad?" - "lovely my baby, - she answered, - I do not dare to tell to you of it". However it did not lag behind it with questions until it has not gone, has not unlocked a room and has not shown it twelve ready coffins, filled with shavings. To it mother also has told: "My dear Veniamin, your father has ordered to prepare these coffins for you and for your eleven brothers because he has solved: if at me the girl he orders to destroy all of you is born and in these coffins to bury".
She spoke all it and cried; and the son consoled it and has told: "do not cry, the lovely mother, we somehow about ourselves will think also from it we will leave".
And she answered it: "Go you with the eleven brothers in wood, and let one of you always costs on the lookout on the highest tree what will be in wood, and let looks on замковую a tower. If at me the sonny I order to expose on a tower a flag of truce and then all of you can easy come back home is born; if the daughter I order to expose on a tower a red flag and then run as soon as possible is born, and yes the God stores you. Every night I will rise and pray for you to the God: in winter, that there was at you a spark about which you could be warmed, and in the summer - that a heat you not сморила". After that she has blest the sons, and they have left in wood. All of them, alternating, got on highest of wood oaks and stood there on the lookout, and looked at a lock tower.
When has passed eleven days and the turn has come to climb
To Veniamin, he has seen, that on a tower any flag is lifted: but that was not white, but a red-bloody flag, to all of them announcing death!
As soon as brothers have heard about it, all of them have boiled anger and have told: "Really we are condemned on death изза little girls?! So we swear, that we will revenge for ourselves: wherever we have met the little girl on our way - it should be lost from our hand".
Then they have gone deep into the thicket of wood and in the most deaf wood thicket have found the small bewitched small house, standing is empty-pustehonek.
Then they have told: "Here we also will lodge, and you, Veniamin, most younger of us and the weakest, should be here constantly and be engaged in housekeeping; and all of us the others around will ransack, of food to care".
And here they have gone to wander on wood and began to shoot hares, wild goats, birds and pigeons - that in food suited: all it were taken down by them to Veniamin, and that should them make from this a dinner with which all of them could be sated.
So they have lived in this small house ten years, and years have leaked for them imperceptibly.
The daughter whom the queen has given birth, has had time to grow in the meantime and there was a girl предобрая and self красоточка, and in a forehead at it the gold star burnt. Once, when in the lock there was a big washing, she has suddenly seen twelve man's shirts among linen and has asked mother: "Whose these twelve shirts? After all to the father they are too small".
Then mother with великою grief answered it: "the Lovely baby, these shirts of your twelve brothers". - "Yes where these twelve brothers? I about them still have never heard". Mother answered: "the Uniform God knows, where they now. Wander somewhere on the world".
Then took the girl for a hand and, having opened a treasured room, has specified to it "in twelve coffins with shavings, with изголовьицами." These coffins, - she has told, - have been intended for your brothers; but they secretly have left till your birth ".
Also has told to it as there was a business.
Then the girl has told: "the Lovely mother, do not cry, I will go and I will find my brothers".
And here it took with herself twelve shirts and has left the lock, and has directly entered into the big dense wood.
There was it, all the day, and towards evening has come to the bewitched small house. Has entered into a small house and has met in it the boy who has asked her: "Whence you go and where?" - also has much been surprised by that it was so it is good and dressed up in a royal dress and in a forehead at it the star burnt.
Then she answered: "I the royal daughter also search for mine twelve brothers, and I will go though on a world's end white, yet I will not find them". It has thus specified in twelve shirts which belonged to king's sons-brothers.
Then Veniamin has seen, that it is their sister, and has told: "I am Veniamin, your younger brother".
And she began to cry because of happiness, and Veniamin too, and they kissed and pardoned with all my heart.
Then he has told: "the Lovely sister, here is some obstacle... After all we have promised, that each girl whom we will meet, should die, for we изза girls should leave our native kingdom". And it on it: "So? I willingly will die, if death своею to a smog to release mine twelve brothers from the reference". - "Is not present, - he answered, - you should not die; sit down here under this tub and sit, other eleven brothers will not come yet; I with them will somehow be settled".
So it also has made.
With approach of night other brothers from hunting have returned also, and the supper it was ready. And when they sat at a table have asked: "That is audible the newcomer?" Veniamin answered: "Really you know nothing?" - "is not present", those answered; and Veniamin continued: "As it so? You on wood рыщете, and I at home sit, yes more you I know!" - "well so tell to us!"
And he answered them: "And whether you promise me everything, what the first girl who to us will meet, will not be killed?" - "yes, yes, - they have shouted at once, it should be pardoned Well, tell!" Then he also has told: "Our sister here!", - also has raised a tub, and the princess left from under it in the rich clothes and with золотою звездою in a forehead, and was it такою прекрасною, нежною and стройною.
And all of them to it were delighted, have thrown the arms round its a neck, kissed it and have grown fond with all my heart.
And here it remained together with Veniamin in their house and began to help it with work. And other eleven brothers still ransacked on wood, beat any game, wild goats, birds and pigeons that was it what to eat, and sister with brother Veniamin cared of that it meal to prepare.
It collected windfallen trees on fuel and коренья on seasoning and pots about fire moved - and the supper was always on a table when its eleven brothers came back home. She and in general observed of order in a small house, and beds it spread чистенько and беленько, and brothers were happy with it and lived with it in the big consent.
After the lapse of some time happens once, that Veniamin with сестрою have prepared for brothers an excellent entertainment and when all of them have converged, have sat down to table and began to eat and drink very funny.
And behind the bewitched small house there was a small garden, and twelve lilies grew in that garden. Sister has conceived to give to brothers pleasure, has broken these twelve цветков and wanted each of them to bring on a flower after a supper.
But as soon as it цветки has broken, during its same instant twelve brothers have addressed in twelve ravens and all have departed for wood, and the house and a garden has disappeared, as did not happen.
Also the poor girl one-odineshenka in wild wood and when began to look back around has seen nearby the old woman who to it and has told has come to be: "my Child, what you it have done? What for you have broken these twelve white lilies? After all these цветки were your brothers, and here now they have addressed for ever in ravens".
The girl answered it with tears: "Really there is no means them to rescue?" - "is not present, - the old woman answered, - one only and is means for all light, and that such difficult, that you this means will not relieve them... You should be seven years not mine, should not neither speak, nor laugh, and if you though utter one word, and till seven years will lack though one hour all your works were gone, and one your word will kill all your brothers".
Then the girl has said in the heart: "I likely know, that I will rescue the brothers", - and have gone on wood, have found to myself a high tree, have climbed on it both began to spin, and did not speak, did not laugh.
Happens, however, so, that one king has called in in that wood on hunting, and that king had a big fleet dog who has directly run up to that tree on which the girl sat, began to turn and bark about it upwards. The king has approached on a tree, has seen the princess-beauty with золотою звездою in a forehead and so has admired it красотою that has shouted to it directly, whether she wishes to be to it супругою. She has answered nothing to it, only головкою has nodded. Then he has got on a tree, has taken down it therefrom, has planted to itself on a horse and has brought home.
Wedding have celebrated perfectly well and cheerfully: but the bride of the king did not speak and did not laugh.
When they have lived a year two between themselves in the full consent, the stepmother of the king, the woman malicious, began to whisper and slander the young queen to the king: "you from wood simple poor and who knows it in what she godless affairs is engaged secretly from us Have taken out! If she precisely mute also cannot speak, so after all it, at least, could laugh; well, and who does not laugh, at that, of course, conscience is dirty!" The king long did not wish to trust these slanders, however the old woman so insisted on the and accused the daughter-in-law in стольких evil deeds, that the king at last has allowed itself to persuade and has sentenced the wife to a death penalty.
In a royal castle court yard the big fire on which should burn it has been dissolved: and the king stood at the top window of the lock and looked through tears at all these preparations because nevertheless very much loved the wife.
When it has already been adhered to a column on a fire and the fire flame long red languages began to lick edge of its clothes, has expired last instant of treasured seven years.
Then in air whistle of wings was heard, and twelve ravens were over a fire and have fallen down to the ground: and hardly the earths have concerned, have addressed in her brothers who to it have been obliged by the rescue. They have scattered a fire, have extinguished a flame, have untied sister from a column and began to caress and kiss it.
Here, when it could open lips and speak, she has told to the king why it was mute and never laughed.
The king with pleasure has learnt that it is innocent, and all of them together lived in the consent to the death.
And the malicious stepmother has been prosecuted, and the court has awarded it to plant in a flank with boiling oil and venomous snakes, and it was lost злою death. |
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