Each nation has its own tales. And they all have their own characteristics. This article will focus on a genre such as a Bulgarian fairy tale. “The Golden Egg Chicken” is one of the most popular pieces of this kind in Bulgaria. What distinguishes the tales of this people? Firstly, Bulgaria has long remained an agrarian country, and therefore the motives associated with peasant life are strong in the works of its authors. Secondly, in Bulgarian fairy tales, the narrative is often conducted in a humorous or even satirical style. Thus, the negative traits of a human character are often ridiculed here: greed, stupidity, arrogance, and so on. The well-known Bulgarian fairy tale “Chicken Lying Golden Eggs” was no exception to this rule. Let's move on to its contents.
Unexpected find
Once upon a time there lived a poor peasant. He experienced a lot of need with his family. And his hut was thin, and sometimes there was nothing, and his clothes had long turned into rags.
Of all the wealth, he had only a chicken, which carried one testicle a day. Once a peasant went into a chicken coop, as usual, and found one egg under his perch, but not a simple one, but a golden one. At first the poor man could not believe his eyes. He took a golden egg, examined from all sides, felt. Yes, it really was a precious thing. Then the peasant had the idea that someone wanted to play a trick on him, poor fellow. He looked around, but there was nobody around. Still not believing in his happiness, the owner of the chicken coop brought an egg to the jeweler to confirm that the item was really golden. The goldsmith, having examined the find, said to the peasant: "This is one hundred percent pure gold, and the highest test." The pleased owner of the chicken coop was returning home, building in his head the wildest plans about what he would buy first, selling the jewel. So well begins the fairy tale about the hen that laid the golden eggs.
The peasant becomes rich
The next day, as soon as it dawned, our hero went to the market and lost his precious find. Returning home with a lot of money, the peasant threw a feast on the mountain, which the whole village ran to. Imagine the poor man’s surprise when the next day, coming to his chicken coop, he saw the exact same golden egg under a roost. The peasant’s surprise and joy knew no bounds. Since then, he began to find one golden egg in the nest of his chicken every morning.
The poor man got rich. Now he bought himself and his relatives good clothes, the best products in the market. And soon he moved to a big nice house, leaving his shack. If you believe this tale, it turns out that getting rich is not so difficult. But the main lesson to be learned from here is how not to lose your fortune. We can say that
this is a fairy tale for a rich child. “The chicken laying golden eggs” is an instructive work on how to increase your capital without going to extremes.
Wrath of the rich
To live a peasant with his family and rejoice. But it was not there. Began to overcome yesterday's poor greed. Now the rich peasant had already calculated in his mind how much good income he could have received if the chicken did not carry one testicle every day, but several. Every day he came to the chicken coop, trying to understand how his bird is able to produce this jewel.
The stupid peasant hoped to learn how to make golden eggs. But no matter how much he watched or thought, he could not understand this. The rich began to overcome anger. But this is not the end of the Bulgarian folk tale about the chicken that lays golden eggs. Further, our hero will do an irreparable business, after which he will have to forget about the accumulation of wealth.
The peasant is left with nothing
Once, upon entering the chicken coop, he could not stand the rich, ran to the roost with a sharp knife and cut his chicken in half.
What did he see? Only particles of a nascent chicken egg in a chicken. And so the stupid and greedy peasant lost his constant income. Next, we will talk about what the Bulgarian fairy tale “Chicken Lays Golden Eggs” teaches.
The moral of the work
In the pursuit of wealth, some people often lose everything they have gained. If greed is excessive, it can lead to complete collapse, as happened in this work. The greed of a person overshadows the gaze, depriving him of the ability to correctly assess the situation. The sooner the child understands this, the more successful he will be in the future. A good lesson is given to children by the Bulgarian fairy tale “A Chicken Lying Golden Eggs”. Grade 2 is the time to get students acquainted with this instructive work.
Russian tales of greed
Reluctance to share, stinginess, greed in people are often ridiculed in folk traditions. In the literature of many countries there are similar works. They are in our Russian culture. Here you can recall some tales.
- "The greedy old woman." Once upon a time there lived an old man with an old woman. Once my grandfather went into the woods for firewood. He brandished his ax to cut down a tree, and it asks to spare him in a human voice, promising to fulfill any desire. He begged the old man from the tree of wealth. Only a little of this seemed to his old woman. With her greed, her demands grew: for the old man to become a burmist, then a master, then a colonel, general, sovereign, and finally, the Lord himself. Hearing the last desire, turned the tree of an old man with an old woman into bears.
- "The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish". An old man with an old woman lived in a dugout near the blue sea. Every day, grandfather caught seine fish. One day, he was lucky enough to catch a goldfish, which promised him to fulfill any desire. The old man felt sorry for her, did not ask for anything and released him into the sea. Grandfather returned home and told about the find of the old woman. The mistress climbed onto him, forced her to return and ask the fish for a new trough. And then she told her old man to beg another new hut, then a tower, in which she would be a pillar noblewoman, then the royal chambers. Her last desire is to live in the ocean-sea as the mistress of the sea so that the goldfish herself serves her. As a result, the old woman remained only with her broken trough.
- "The Tale of the Priest and His Worker Balda." Once upon a time there was a pop. He hired a worker for himself, who, instead of a salary, asked the father for three clicks on his forehead. The end of the work of the hard worker Baldy came. No matter how the pop turned away, he had to “pay” in full for the services of a mercenary. From the first click, the priest jumped to the ceiling, from the second - he lost his tongue, and from the third - he lost his mind.
- "Porridge from the ax." The soldier was returning home from the service and he drove overnight to a village. I knocked on the last hut. The door was opened by a grandmother. She warned the servant that he would let him in at night, only she would not feed him, she had nothing. The soldier agreed to this condition. Entering, he noticed bags and coolies with food in the corner. The servant took to cook porridge from the ax. He put a cast iron with water on the fire, put an ax there and asked the greedy old woman for a bit of salt ... And then sugar, cereals, butter ... So the soldier outwitted the mean housewife.
Children from all over the world fell in love with the Bulgarian fairy tale “Chicken Lying Golden Eggs”. It is easy to read, and its morality is easy to understand.