Russian folktales!

Sure! They are all about luck and the possibility of getting everything for just being a good fellow. A debauching moral

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Sivka-Burka.

Once someone trampled down and ruined a rich man's wheat crops during the night. He wanted to catch and punish the thief and ordered his older son to go and guard the crops, but the man just laid down in hay and slept all night. In the morning he was saying: 'Didn't sleep all night, but saw no-one', still, the crops were rodden again that night. Then the old man sent his se

'Come' - said Sivka - 'into my left ear and get out from the right'. So Ivanushka did. He apeared as handsome man as can't be imagined or described. Then he sat on the horse and galloped to the capital. There were thousands of people on the square, and tsarevna sitting in a high chamber-tower. But nobody jumps: who wants to break his neck? Ivanushka's horse ran, without stopping, jumped, people g

wow! its so imaginative! i can imagine every word in the story!!Thats why i like it very much. when i was a kid, i used to subscribe for Misha, so from then i got fascinated by russian tales. good work Bubr!... then what happens?

Thousands of people were sitting at oak tables, eating and drinking, talking. At the end tsarevna went on to treat guests with mead from her hands. Treated everyone, came to Ivanushka at last. And the fool has a dress with holes, was all sooty himself, hair stands on end, hand wrapped in a rag - terrible. 'What's with your hand?' - asks tsarevna - 'go on, unwrap it!' Ivanushka unwrapped the rag,

What is 'Misha'?

russian children's magzine! i thought you knew it! it had a whole lot of infromation on russia.

I didn't. When I was a child there was only 'Murzilka' and 'Vesyolye Kartinki' ('Merry pictures'). Was that Misha in English translation?

What mushrooms did the boy want to pick? Hallocinogenic?

I am sure you had some of them sometime, Pieter. LOL.