TALE "Five brothers and sister" Print

Whether or not it was, five brothers lived, and they had one sister. And so they loved her, more than their lives. They gave her in marriage, but she soon became a widower, and was left alone with her two sons. The brothers brought the widowed sister to their house together with her sons, and she is cherished and cherished in such a way that she does not feel her widowhood, does not need anything, she has plenty of clothes and food. They only envy her daughter-in-law, they are angry that their husbands love so much and pamper their sister. And since envy sunk into the soul, they think of one thing - as if to sow discord between brothers and sister. One thing they say to the widow, the other - no, the brothers and sister do not quarrel in any way, they love her, and that’s it. One day, they took the daughter-in-law of the best buffalo, whom the brothers loved most of all, led him into a stable and cut him down. They went out and said to the brothers: - Here is your beloved sister that has done - cut off the best buffalo! The brothers did not raise an eyebrow. - I’ve hacked so hacked, let him take away all her misfortunes. They are angry that their trick failed, they took and slaughtered the best horse. They slaughtered and said to his sister: “Here is what your beloved sister has done, slaughtered a better horse!” Brothers here did not succumb to deception. - Well, stabbed so stabbed. If we were alive and healthy, what cattle! We made it. Finally, the daughter-in-law got furious. They conceived of an unprecedented evil - just to get rid of the hated widow. At midnight, when everyone was sleeping, the elder daughter-in-law got up, crept up to her son and stabbed the sleeping child in bed, and took the knife, covered in blood, and secretly hid it in her pocket. It is morning. All are busy with their work. And the dead child lies covered with a blanket, as if sleeping. As the sun rose, an older brother went into the room for something, sees that the child is lying, and says to his wife: - Look, if the child is sick, something he has been sleeping for so long. And the wife: - No, that maybe he slept with him, apparently, let him sleep, it’s a pity to wake him up. They waited yet, no, the boy did not wake up, came up, threw off the blanket; see lies a boy with a throat cut. Mother screamed, fell, as if she had lost her feelings, messing with her, bringing her to life. She woke up and began to yell and lament, tear her hair and beat herself in the chest. They began to look for a killer. Mother said: - Inspect all those who have a bloodied knife, he and the killer. And the widow is right there. Crying, killing that she had lost her nephew, and does not know what misfortune awaits her. “We’ll look around, dear ones, we’ll look, maybe we will find out who the killer is,” the poor thing says. They went around everyone, no one had a knife, looked at the widow and found a bloodied knife in his pocket. The unfortunate woman's heart broke, she cries, swears that she is innocent, but who will believe her? The elder sister-in-law screamed, ran into her husband: - Here, the unfortunate blind man, now I understand what kind of sister you have. As she was revered, they did not want to believe anyone. Everyone let her down. And she slaughtered a buffalo, and drained her horse, everything went well for her, and now she’s ruined your son too. Now tear your hair and scream, much you will help grieve! The brothers became angry, blinded their sister, and drove the unfortunate blind man. They drove to the bank of one river, far from home, and threw there along with her children. The blind woman sits by the river, cries, is killed, hugs her orphans. And neither food from the infrequent, nor a roof over his head. What to do? The children made small fishing rods and began to fish. The fish will bite, they will get it, hold it on a fire and eat it. So they live. Only there is no salt, so the mother’s children say: - Mother, there shepherds graze sheep, let's go ask, maybe they will give us salt. Their mother let go, the children ran, got salt, brought it. Mother said: - Give, children, I'll see if it is salt or something else. They gave, but she does not see; I took it, tried it on my tongue - really salt. Said: - Yes, children, this is salt. Sprinkle the fish and fry it. Here are the children fishing. They came across a big fish. The boys rejoiced: “This one will feed all three of us,” they say. They only wanted to gut her, and the fish said: “Let me go, pay back for the good.” The children were surprised, they got scared, ran to their mother, they said: - Mother, we caught one big fish, and she speaks humanly, asks to be let go, promises to repay the good, how to be? Release it or fry it all the same? The mother was surprised and says to the children: - Let go, children. The children carried fish and put them into the water, and she says: “Stand here where you let me go, wait until I get back,” she said and sailed away. Children stand and wait. Little time has passed. The fish appeared again, swam to the shore, two eyeballs threw the shore and said: - Take, attach to the eyes of the mother, she will see clearly. She said, splashed her tail in the water and swam away. The children took eyeballs, brought them to their mother, put them on their sockets, their mother and received sight. She was delighted, hugs, kisses children. They settled near this river. They built a house for themselves and live. Sons have grown up, they work, they work. So little by little and a couple of oxen brought. They began to plow and sow. And they have such a rich harvest that not only themselves are full, but also remains. They will sell - they will buy what is needed, they live, they don’t know the needs. Here, in the homeland of this widow, where her brothers remained, bread did not freak. Everyone was hungry. The widow's brothers decided to go for bread. They heard that in such and such a place, such and such people have a lot of bread for sale. The elder brother took the money, went to buy bread. He came to his sister, but where could he find her, he would not have believed that she and her orphans were still alive. And the sister recognized her brother. I found out her heart was beating. He bought the grain as needed, measured it out, and stack it. And the mother called the eldest son, gave him a ring and says: “This is your uncle, son.” You take this ring and throw it to him imperceptibly. The boy took the ring and imperceptibly lowered it into the uncle. Here he laid all the grain on the arba, moving out of the yard. The mother raised the alarm, sends the sons in pursuit. Stop the arba, screaming, the ring has disappeared from me, right, he stole, there is no one else. Her brother swears, swears: here is heaven, here is earth - witnesses, I didn’t take anything, I didn’t see any ring. No, they do not believe him. - You have to come back, we do not believe in the word, let's go, see if the ring is on you. What to do? He returned to the house, and his sister meets him as a stranger, and reproaches: - What is this? We received you with honor, measured out your bread, and you still took the ring, is it honest? The poor man swears: here is God, here is my word, I have never stolen anything. - No, that’s not good. Look at him for his ring, ”my mother ordered. We examined him. This missing ring fell out of the bush. He turned gray, so what to do? “God sees, it’s not my fault,” he says, “but in your hands I do what you want with me.” “That's it, brother,” the sister tells him. “Just as you did not steal this ring, even though it turned out to be with you, so I did not kill your child, but your wife killed it and threw a bloodied knife at me.” They hugged, kiss. The sister told her brother everything about herself - both how she saw her sight and how she lived alone with the children. Rejoices brother. He drove his sister and nephews home, and tied his wife to the ponytail and killed him like that. Pestilence there, feast here, Drop out there, flour here.