Who does not like Russian folk tales? “Alyonushka and Brother Ivanushka” is a wonderful work that almost every one of us remembers from childhood. However, to be precise, it should be noted that the correct name of the tale is “Sister Alyonushka and brother Ivanushka”. Like any work of this genre, it usually begins with the words: "Once upon a time." Fairy tales are fairy tales for us, as descendants, to transmit and teach our folk wisdom to distinguish truth from deceit, good from evil, good man from evil, etc. Tales play a huge educational role, without them, nowhere, any child knows by heart about a dozen of them and will gladly tell you if you ask him very much.
Tale "Alyonushka and brother Ivanushka"
In one remote village there lived, there were an old man with an old woman, their children were a great joy: daughter Alyonushka and son Ivanushka. The time has come, and the parents died, and the children became orphans. Alyonushka began to go to work and took her little brother with her.
The fairy tale "Sister Alyonushka and brother Ivanushka" continues with the fact that once they walked along a wide field and a long way. Then Ivanushka really wanted to drink some water, about this he began to plaintively ask her sister. But she affectionately asked to wait and assured him that soon a well would meet on their way, and from that they would get drunk. However, the sun began to bake even more, and to the well still go and go. Languidly became children, sweat acts, fever pesters.
And suddenly Ivanushka sees on the road a track from a cow's hoof, full of water. He again began to beg his sister to let him get drunk out of the hoof, but his sister forbade him to drink from there strictly, warning him that if he did, he would turn into a calf. Ivanushka obeyed, and they went on.
Thirst
The folk tale “Sister Alyonushka and brother Ivanushka” continued with the fact that after a while the heat began to torment them even more, and a horse's hoof with water appeared on the road, and the brother again began to ask Alyonushka to give him a drink from him. Alyonushka asked him to wait a little longer and not drink from the hoof, so as not to become a foal. Ivanushka sighed heavily, and again they continued on their way.
But after some time Ivanushka was already completely unbearable, and he, seeing right there, on the road, a goat hoof with water, did not listen to his sister Alyonushka, got drunk from him and turned into a kid.
When Alenka called Ivanushka, a little white kid ran to her call. Seeing him like this, she sat down under a stack and burst into tears with bitter tears. And the little kid near her jumps.
The tale "Alyonushka and brother Ivanushka", therefore, teaches the younger ones to always obey the elders.
Merchant
At this time, the merchant drove by, seeing the girl in tears, he asked why she was so upset. Alenka told him about her misfortune. Then he tells her not to grieve like that, but to marry him. The merchant promised her that he would dress her in gold and silver clothes, and the kid would live with them. Alyonushka agreed. And they began to live together and together, and the kid with them, from the same cup with Alyonka eats and drinks.
Once the merchant went about his business, and then suddenly a witch comes from the forest, got up under the window and started calling Alyonushka to swim in the river.
Alenka came with the witch to the river, and she threw herself at her and, having tied a heavy stone to her neck, threw the damsel into the river. She herself turned to Alyonushka, put on her dress and came to them in the mansions. When the merchant returned, he had no idea about the substitution. One kid is yearning, not eating, not drinking. In the morning he began to run to the bank of the river and call his darling sister, Alyonushka.
Witches intrigues
The witch quickly found out about this and began to persuade the merchant to slaughter a kid. But the merchant was not in a hurry with this matter, he became attached to a cute little kid. But the witch didn’t let up, and finally persuaded the merchant, set fires on fire, set up cast-iron boilers and sharpened knives.
Kozlenochek went to his named father and asked that he let him go for the last time to a river of water to drink, because he did not have long to live in this world. He agreed.
Kozlenochek struggled to run to the river and began to plaintively call Alyonushka to regret and intercede. But the sister lay on a deep bottom, she responded, but could not do anything, since her stone was heavy on her neck, the grass of her legs tangled, the sand lay on her chest.
But the Tale "Alyonushka and Brother Ivanushka" did not end there.
Attentive servant
But the witch does not find a place for herself, she lost sight of the kid. And then he sends the servant to find the kid and urgently bring him to her.
The servant went to the river and sees that a little kid was running around and calling his sister, and the sister replied to him from the water that the stone was pulling her to the bottom. Hearing this conversation, he ran to the merchant and told everything. Then all the people gathered and came to the river, threw strong nets and pulled Alyonushka ashore, removed the unfortunate stone from his neck, dipped it in spring water and put it on dresses. She immediately became even more beautiful than she was.
And then the tale "Alyonushka and brother Ivanushka" came to the most interesting.
Kozlenochek was so happy and having fun that from happiness he threw himself over his head three times and became again the same Ivanushka. The witch was caught, tied to the tail of a horse and allowed into a pure field. So justly and kindly ended the fairy tale "Sister Alyonushka and brother Ivanushka."