"Snake and fish" (Armenian fairy tale). Armenian fairy tales in Russian

The Armenian people created many fairy tales for their five-thousand-year history. Among them there are funny and sad. However, all Armenian folk tales are instructive. They teach the listener or the reader the good and the justice. It is not surprising. After all, each people puts in their folklore wisdom, accumulated for centuries. For example, "Snake and Fish" is an Armenian fairy tale that all patience can end.

Many of these stories are unlikely to be understood by children, as they resemble fables rather. In addition, most of them are not ordinary oriental tales, as Christian morality and tragic history have left their imprint on them. However, for children in the treasury of Armenian folklore there is a lot of interesting. And many fairy tales for toddlers became the basis for funny cartoons in Russian.

"Barikendan" ("Maslenitsa")

There lived a husband and wife. Both were, as they say, without a king in their heads, and they also constantly quarreled.

One day my husband brought home a bag of rice and a pot of butter. The wife was indignant, why he brought so many expensive products, but the husband replied that it was for Barikendan (Pancake week). The wife in a rage did not understand that it was a holiday and decided that the products belonged to a person with that name. Several weeks passed. And one day a traveler knocked at the house. Without waiting for him to say why he came, the quarrelsome woman began to resent: "What are you, Barikendan brother, so delayed? Are we obliged to keep your rice and oil in your house?" Then the passer-by realized who he was dealing with and, apologizing, said that he had been detained, and now he came to collect his food.

After the traveler left, taking rice and butter with him, the husband of a fool returned. Upon learning that she gave the stranger supplies purchased for the Shrovetide, he chased the deceiver on horseback.

A cunning passer-by saw the pursuit, hid the hurjins (carrying bags) with groceries for stones, and sat down by the road. The husband of the stupid woman asked him about the traveler with the Khurdjins, but the rascal said that he could not catch up on horseback, since the horse runs on 4 legs, and the man only two. Then the fool gave him the horse, and he ran along the road on his two.

Late in the evening, the husband returned home without hurdjin and horse, and until the end of his life, he and his wife reproached each other.

"Snake and fish" (Armenian fairy tale)

Once a snake and a fish were fucked. The snake asked her new sister to ride her on the sea, and she agreed. She crawled on the back of the fish, and she began to carry her on the sea. Suddenly the snake stung her sister. The fish was surprised, but she said that she did it by accident. A few minutes later everything repeated, and when asked by the bitten sister, the viper replied that this sun had troubled her mind. When the fish felt a bite for the third time, she was indignant at this behavior of her friend, but the snake declared: "This is my custom!" The fish did not say anything, only it went under the water, where the evil adder drowned.

"Talking fish"

This Armenian fairy tale in Russian is known to many people, as an interesting musical cartoon film has been shot on it. It teaches that you always have to pay for good with good. In a sense, this story is the opposite of the one described by "Serpent and the Fish" (Armenian fairy tale), because the fish, released by the poor farmer, who was punished by the owner, pays him a hundredfold and helps get rid of the monster.

"Arev and Krag" ("The Sun and Fire")

Long ago, long before the World Flood, when the earth was dark and cold, the first tribe of people lived in the cave on Ararat. Strong men treated children and the elderly badly, because they could not hunt, and gave them only the bones of dead animals. And so, Crag and Arev grew up among them. Once, on hunting, the young man defended the girl from the tiger, and when she looked at him with grateful eyes, Krag's face flamed like fire. His gleam lit up and Arev, shining so that the earth finally lit up, and the darkness receded. When the young people returned to the cave, she burst into a glow of light, and the truth was revealed to all. However, it seemed to many too terrible. So, the women looked at each other and the young girls, and envy appeared in their hearts, and the old leader saw around him young and stronger hunters, with a grin looking at him, not so powerful as in his youth, torso. It was decided to kill Arev and Krag, but the tribal elders understood that hunting was better when it was light, and the heat coming from Krag would protect them from the cold in the winter cold. Then they threw Abraham from the top of Ararat to heaven, and she became the Sun, and the unfortunate Krag was chained and carried with them from the cave to the cave, so that he warmed their homes.

Tales in the treatment of Hovhannes Tumanyan

Many Armenian fairy tales, for example, "Barikendan", have reached us in literary processing. One of the most famous Armenian poets of the 19th century Hovhannes Tumanyan became its author. He not only made oriental tales, for example, "Shoes of Abu Hassan", accessible to our children, but also adapted Western European ones for our language.

Now you know that "Snake and fish" is an Armenian fairy tale about patience, which has a limit, as well as familiar with the beautiful history of the unfortunate Arev and Krag, which brought people the truth that turned out to be unnecessary.