A short tale about Ivan the Fool. Ivan the Fool

There is probably not a single Russian-speaking person who could not immediately remember at least one of which - Ivan the Fool. And everyone can also describe this hero: Ivan is the youngest son in the family, unlucky, lazy and good-natured. It’s better not to ask him for anything, otherwise, and only after much persuasion, Ivanushka will make everything worse than ever! But why then is it he who, at the end of the fairy tale, gets all the best and half the kingdom to boot? Let's try to figure this out.

Tales of Ivan the Fool: list

The best way to help us understand the character of the hero is the fairy tales themselves, or rather, their retelling. Let's take only three of them, the most typical, so to speak.

1. "Salt". A tale about the merchant's son Ivan, who once set off on a ship with planks and planks, found himself in an unknown land during a storm and, having discovered salt there, set off to trade it. Having successfully sold everything, he managed to take away the Tsar’s daughter as well. But the older brothers did not yawn, they threw Ivan into the ocean, and they themselves divided his spoils. But the good hero was lucky here too: the giant took him home, straight to the festive table. And the father, having learned about the unworthy behavior of the older brothers, drove them out of sight, and married the younger one to the princess.
2. "The Tale of Ivan the Fool." In this tale, Ivan the Fool tracks down three horses who are trampling the grass in the royal garden. He is helped in this by a mouse, which the good fellow generously fed. Three horses - silver, gold and diamond - become the property of Ivanushka. But! Just as he was a fool for everyone behind the stove, he remained so: he didn’t admit to anyone about his prey! Later, when, on the king’s orders, he had to jump to the princess’s balcony, he began to do this in turn, on each horse. And again he returned to the stove: what can you do, you fool?! Only when they found him and brought him in did Ivan the Fool and the princess begin to live together. True, not in the chambers themselves, but in the goose barn. And only three wars, which Ivan won riding on his magic horses, proved to the whole kingdom that he was not a fool, but simply a very modest and a real hero! For this Ivan became king.
3. "The Fool and the Birch." In this fairy tale, the fool is a real one, because he tried to sell an inherited bull to an old dry birch tree he found in the forest. And he lent it to her! And I went for two days to get the money, still waiting for it to come back. And only on the third - I couldn’t resist, I hit the trunk with an ax, and there was a treasure hidden by the robbers! Well, happy fools!

There are also fairy tales about Ivan the Fool, their names can be continued endlessly: “The Horse, the Tablecloth and the Horn”, “Ivan Bykovich”, “The Little Humpbacked Horse”, “Sivka-Burka”, “Ivan the Peasant Son and Miracle Yudo” and etc.

Why did people like Ivan’s image so much?

Why is Ivan the Fool a hero of fairy tales? Why do the Russian people feel such love for him? Is it because the Slavs are generally characterized by sympathy for the orphaned and wretched, a kind of Christian pity? We can talk about this for a long time.

After all, the people who lived for many centuries in poverty and hopelessness probably felt like the same unloved younger son - Ivan the Fool, deceived by fate. Although, in defiance of this, not only the fairy tale, but also life itself taught - not the truly fool who, sitting on the stove, measures the ashes with a hat, spits at the ceiling or sells a bull to a birch tree, but the one who, arrogant, does not hear the world around him, is not connected with it together. Pride is a sin, and it will be punished!

Faith in miracles gives birth to miracles

Ivan is guided in his actions not by logic, but only by intuition. Where does a person who always knows what, where and how much get intuition from? How can it develop within the narrow framework of decency and canons? For a fool, the law is not written, and if it is written, it is not read, and so on... This means that our Ivan, of all the options, will choose the most illogical, the most “wild”, but necessarily, as it turns out later, leading to success. After all, nothing prevents him from listening to his intuition, and most importantly, hearing it!

Remember the fairy tale where Ivan worked for three years as a priest, and when he was offered the choice of a bag of coins or a bag of sand for his labor, our hero, based on a logic only understandable to him, chose sand? A fool, and nothing more!

But on the way home, he came across a fire in the forest, in which a beautiful girl was burning, and that’s where the sand came in handy! Ivan poured fire on them, saved the girl, and she, turning out to be a witch, became his devoted wife and assistant.

By the way, why do you think the sorceress chose Ivan for herself? Yes, probably for the same reason: this person knows how to act not according to the rules, but by listening to his heart. Who, if not a sorceress, can appreciate such talent!

Features of the character of a fairy-tale hero

Pay attention to the important character traits of our main character. All Russian fairy tales about Ivan the Fool describe him not just as stupid, but as naive. For him, every new day is an opportunity to live anew, that is, not to reproach himself endlessly for voluntary and involuntary previous mistakes (and he doesn’t even remember them!), but to start all over again. Isn’t this what followers of all kinds of philosophical and religious movements strive for?

In other words, Ivan the Fool proves every time that very little in life depends on human knowledge and skills, that is, they are secondary and cannot play the main, decisive role in a person’s fate. Remember the saying of the greatest Lao Tzu: “Smart people are not scientists, and scientists are not smart.”

And Ivan in fairy tales is always absolutely open to higher knowledge. Even when he sets out on a journey, as a rule, he “goes wherever his feet take him” or “wherever his eyes look.” Thus, he immediately discards common sense (which his older brothers do not part with until the end of the fairy tale) and only benefits from this. It turns out that not everything in our lives obeys this very common sense!

Reflection of pagan traditions in the image of Ivan the Fool

Some researchers closely linked the image of Ivan with pagan traditions preserved in folklore. For example, A. A. Durov in his dissertation emphasized that Ivan the Fool adorns Russian folk tales not only because of his narrow-mindedness, but because the pagans, it turns out, called everyone undergoing the initiation rite that way.

And the essence here was precisely in the peculiarities of the neophyte’s behavior: he had to forget his previous life, abandon rationality in his actions. It was this “stupidity” that became the distinctive quality of a person who wanted to turn from a “baked oaf” into a real man.

Remember: in the fairy tale, at the beginning of it, Ivan is a laughing stock, who, sitting at the stove, excuse the quote, “twists snot on his fist.” And in the end he is a successful, lucky young man. So, the initiation has been completed!

But what if you look at it from the other side?

Maybe the image of the simpleton Ivan the Fool reveals only the people’s dream of supernatural powers that can help anyone? And some researchers believe that Ivanushka is a poetic dream, reflecting a dream of a carefree, cheerful life, which will still lead to happiness and wealth.

In the essay “Ivan the Fool. The roots of the Russian folk faith" A. Sinyavsky even grieves about the people who chose such a main character. After all, fools in fairy tales are dirty, ragged, unwashed, without a penny to their name, and lazy to the point of insanity. But they are good at playing the pipe or composing songs. This total laziness frightens the author of the essay, because it supposedly proves that the Russian person, expecting the blessings of life from above, forgets about his personal responsibility.

Evg. Trubetskoy, in his discussion of the fairy-tale Fool, argues that the habit of shifting responsibility onto the “broad shoulders of Nikola Ugodnik” is the scourge of the Slavic character, lulling his energy and robbing him of the will to win.

The attitude of living creatures to Ivan the Fool in a fairy tale

But it should be noted that it is not laziness or narrow-mindedness that has attracted loyal admirers to Ivan for so many centuries, but his kindness, gullibility and straightforwardness. This hero does not skimp on a kind word and deed: he will release, having saved a living creature from trouble, he will take pity on a wanderer or an old woman, and they will all subsequently repay him in the same coin.

A hero like Ivan the Fool will be helped by a gray wolf, a pike, a dog, and a cat. All obstacles give way to him - after all, he is not afraid that this may not happen!

Remember the path to success indicated in the movie “The Magicians”: “I see the goal - I see no obstacles”? This is exactly what happens to Ivanushka in every fairy tale. He sees no obstacles to cutting off the twelve heads of the Serpent Gorynych or to turning into a beautiful prince by plunging into a vessel with rejuvenating water. He trusts in God and receives according to his faith!

There are other options for the origin of Ivan’s offensive nickname

Or maybe Ivan was known as a fool not because of the peculiarities of his mind? The guy was just unlucky - he was born third in the family, which means that all the inheritance left from his father will be taken by the eldest sons, and the youngest will be left with nothing. Isn’t it because Ivan is a fool that he was already passed over from a young age?

There is another option as to why Ivanushka bears such an offensive nickname. The fact is that in Ancient Rus' children were given two names. One, received at baptism, was kept secret (remember the proverb: “the name is called a duck, but the name is a duck”?), and the second was deliberately unsightly, even frightening, so that evil spirits would not want to take the child away or do something bad to him: after all, it’s like that The baby is no longer good! And in Russian villages there lived children who, up to the age of 13, bore strange names: Strashko, Khvor, Rottentooth, Chernorot, etc.

Children were often named in order of birth: Pervak ​​(or First), Drugak (Second, Other), Tretyak, Chetvertak and so on, according to the number of heirs. So, some researchers believe that Fool is a transformed, modified name Drugak. Well, perhaps Fools were such only by birth order...

The image of Ivan the Fool in child psychology

Speaking about such a controversial image in Russian culture, it is important to note that fairy tales about Ivan the Fool are also an effective method of child psychotherapy. After all, a child naturally feels timid about the future: how will he fit into adult life? After all, he knows and can do so little! And the fairy tale calms him down: “Don’t be afraid, those who ended up at the top weren’t the same!” The fairy tale says: “The main thing is to take the first step, trusting your inner voice, and then you will get even more than you expect!”

And the child, pushed by the success of such a hero as Ivan the Fool, goes, no longer afraid, into adulthood, equipped with important experience: there is no such bottom from which one cannot rise, there is no such trouble that cannot be overcome.

By the way, both every child and the fabulous Ivan are always open to miracles. Maybe that's why miracles constantly happen to them? And the fairy tale about the Fool is actually also about how to forget being too “clever” if you strive to win.

So who is this beloved

Researchers believe that fairy tales about Ivan the Fool contain a certain strategy that is not based on standard postulates calling for always acting wisely, but, on the contrary, is based on the search for original, illogical and unexpected solutions. But they are successful!

Hidden in Ivan the Fool is an ideal person - true to his word, honest and devoid of personal interest. After all, he has a negative attitude towards wealth (received as an addition to his wife), despite the fact that at the end of the fairy tale he always owns it.

This state of affairs is quite explainable by the fact that the desire for wealth is, from the point of view of the Russian people, always a sign of self-interest, greed, and therefore cannot be a quality of a positive person. And since Ivanushka is the embodiment of something ideal, then he simply must be unmercenary, not knowing the value of money and not striving to make it.

Why does God love fools?

Although the statement given in the subtitle seems illogical at first glance, there is still logic in it. Judge for yourself: the Fool has no one else to rely on! Nobody can help him anymore! And he won't help himself either. There remains only hope in God's providence.

In addition, Ivan the Fool, no matter what fairy tales he appears in, is always filled with extraordinary trust only in this. He does not listen to human advice and does not learn anything from his own experience, but he is absolutely open to Providence - and it never fails such a hero!

And not only Fools, but also completely reasonable heroes of fairy tales, the Lord brings them out of a difficult situation for them, as soon as they find themselves at a crossroads - they don’t know where to go. That is, behind each of them there is an invisible image of Ivan the Fool, his passive, open-to-perception state, which helps to make the only right choice and win the struggle for life.

The image of the Fool in literature and cinema

Ivan the Fool, capable of “breaking” with himself all the boundaries and decency that so closely surrounded the ordinary person, took deep roots in Russian literature and cinema. This image was once used by F. M. Dostoevsky, and A. N. Ostrovsky, and N. S. Leskov, and M. Gorky, and many other famous writers and poets.

After all, you can put into his mouth something that a “noble” hero would never say, and his actions force the viewer to be in constant tension and continuously follow the development of the plot.

Art proves to us: it is Fools who are truly free people. They are not bound by conventions, their actions defy logic, and everything they do is the right path to a Miracle.

And thank God that Fools are indestructible! Otherwise, miracles would simply leave us, and the world, accordingly, would dry up through the efforts of “wise men” and pragmatists.

If in order for there to be a place for Magic in the world, they are necessary, then each of us can and should from time to time put on the cap of the main character of the fairy tale about Ivan the Fool. The names that we give to this action are always the same - this is life!

Once upon a time there lived Ivanushka the Fool, a handsome man, but no matter what he did, everything turned out funny for him - not like with people.

One man hired him as a worker, and he and his wife went to the city; wife and says to Ivanushka:

- You stay with the children, look after them, feed them!

- With what? - asks Ivanushka.

- Take water, flour, potatoes, chop and cook - there will be a stew! The man orders:

- Guard the door so that the children don’t run away into the forest! The man and his wife left. Ivanushka climbed onto the floor, woke up the children, dragged them to the floor, sat down behind them and said:

- Well, I'm watching you!

The children sat on the floor for a while and asked for food. Ivanushka dragged a tub of water into the hut, poured half a sack of flour and a measure of potatoes into it, shook it all out with a rocker and thought out loud:

- Who needs to be chopped up? The children heard it and got scared:

“He’ll probably crush us!” And they quietly ran away from the hut. Ivanushka looked after them, scratched the back of his head, and thought:

- How am I going to look after them now? Moreover, the door must be guarded so that she does not run away! He looked into the tub and said:

- Cook, stew, and I’ll go look after the children! He took the door off its hinges, put it on his shoulders and went into the forest. Suddenly the Bear steps towards him - he was surprised and growls:

- Hey, why are you carrying the tree into the forest? Ivanushka told him what happened to him. The bear sat on his hind legs and laughed:

- What a fool you are! Am I going to eat you for this? And Ivanushka says:

“You’d better eat the children, so that next time they listen to their father and mother and don’t run into the forest!”

The bear laughs even harder and rolls on the ground laughing.

-Have you ever seen such a stupid thing? Let's go, I'll show you to my wife!

He took him to his den. Ivanushka walks and hits the pine trees with the door.

- Leave her alone! - says the Bear.

“No, I’m true to my word: I promised to keep you safe, so I’ll keep you safe!”

We came to the den. The bear says to his wife:

- Look, Masha, what a fool I brought you! Laughter!

And Ivanushka asks the Bear:

- Aunt, have you seen the kids?

- Mine are at home, sleeping.

- Come on, show me, aren’t these mine?

The Bear showed him three cubs; He says:

- Not these, I had two. Then the Bear sees that he is stupid and laughs too:

- But you had human children!

“Well, yes,” said Ivanushka, “you can sort them out, little ones, which ones are whose!”

- That's funny! - The Bear was surprised and said to her husband:

- Mikhail Potapych, we won’t eat him, let him live among our workers!

“Okay,” agreed the Bear, “even though he’s a person, he’s too harmless!” The Bear gave Ivanushka a basket and ordered:

- Go ahead and pick some wild raspberries. The kids will wake up, I’ll treat them to something delicious!

- Okay, I can do this! - said Ivanushka. - Will you guard the door?

Ivanushka went to the forest raspberry patch, picked a basket full of raspberries, ate his fill, went back to the Bears and sang at the top of his lungs:

Oh, how awkward

Ladybugs!

Is it the ants?

Or lizards!

He came to the den and shouted:

- Here it is, raspberry?

The cubs ran up to the basket, growled, pushed each other, tumbled - they were very happy!

And Ivanushka, looking at them, says:

- Eh-ma, it’s a pity that I’m not a bear, otherwise I would have children!

The bear and his wife laugh.

- Oh, my fathers! - Bear growls. - You can’t live with him - you’ll die laughing!

“Tell you what,” says Ivanushka, “you guard the door here, and I’ll go look for the kids, otherwise the owner will give me trouble!”

And the Bear asks her husband:

- Misha, would you help him?

“We need to help,” agreed the Bear, “he’s very funny!”

The Bear and Ivanushka walked along the forest paths, they walked and talked in a friendly manner.

- Well, you’re stupid! — the Bear is surprised. And Ivanushka asks him:

-Are you smart?

- Don't know.

- And I don’t know. You're evil?

- No, why?

“But in my opinion, whoever is angry is stupid.” I'm not evil either. Therefore, you and I will both not be fools!

- Look, how you brought it out! — the Bear was surprised. Suddenly they see two children sitting under a bush, asleep. The bear asks:

- These are yours, or what?

“I don’t know,” says Ivanushka, “you need to ask.” Mine wanted to eat.

They woke up the children and asked:

- Do you want to eat? They shout:

- We've been wanting it for a long time!

“Well,” said Ivanushka, “that means these are mine!” Now I will lead them to the village, and you, uncle, please bring the door, otherwise I don’t have time myself, I still need to cook the stew!

- Okay! - said the Bear - I’ll bring it! Ivanushka walks behind the children, looks at the ground after them, as he was ordered, and he himself sings:

Eh, such miracles!

Beetles catch a hare

A fox sits under a bush,

Very surprised!

I came to the hut, and the owners returned from the city. They see: in the middle of the hut there is a tub, filled to the top with water, filled with potatoes and flour, there are no children, the door is also missing - they sat down on a bench and cried bitterly.

-What are you crying about? - Ivanushka asked them. Then they saw the children, were delighted, hugged them, and asked Ivanushka, pointing to his cooking in the tub:

-What have you done?

- Chowder!

- Is that really necessary?

- How do I know - how?

- Where did the door go?

“They’ll bring it now, here it is!”

The owners looked out the window, and a Bear was walking down the street, pulling the door, people were running from him in all directions, climbing onto roofs, onto trees; the dogs got scared - they got stuck out of fear in the fences, under the gates; only one red rooster bravely stands in the middle of the street and shouts at the Bear:
- I’ll throw it into the river!

The Russian folk tale Ivan the Fool says that fools are always lucky. Even though Ivan was a fool, he defeated Dobrynya and married the Tsar’s daughter, and managed to command the Russian heroes Ilya and Fedka. Read an interesting fairy tale about Ivan the Fool.

"Ivan the Fool" Russian folk tale

In a certain kingdom, in a certain state, there lived an old man and an old woman. They had three sons, the third was called Ivan the Fool. The first two are married, and Ivan the Fool is single; two brothers were engaged in business, managing the house, plowing and sowing, but the third did nothing. One day, Ivan’s father and daughters-in-law began sending Ivan out to the field to plow some arable land. The guy drove off, arrived at the arable land, harnessed his horse, rode with the plow once or twice, and saw: there were no more mosquitoes and midges; he grabbed a whip, lashed the horse on the side, killed them without estimate; hit another, killed forty spiders and thinks:
- After all, I killed forty heroes in one swing, but the small fry has no budget!
He took them all, put them in a pile and covered them with horse feces; He didn’t bother to plow himself, he unharnessed the horse and rode home. He comes home and says to his daughters-in-law and mother:
“Give me a canopy and a saddle, and you, father, give me the saber that’s hanging on your wall—it’s rusty.” What kind of a man am I! I have nothing.
They laughed at him and gave him some kind of split tyurik instead of a saddle; Our guy attached girths to it and put it on the thin little filly. Instead of a canopy, the mother gave some old oakwood; He took that too, and took a saber from his father, went, sharpened it, got ready and went. He reaches Rosstany - and he was still somewhat literate - he wrote on a post: the strong heroes Ilya Muromets and Fyodor Lyzhnikov would come to such and such a state to a strong and mighty hero, who killed forty heroes at one stroke, but the small fry has no budget, and rolled them all over with a stone.
Sure enough, after him the hero Ilya Muromets arrives and sees the inscription on the pillar:
“Bah,” he says, “a strong, mighty hero has passed by: it’s no good to disobey.”
Let's go, they'll catch up with Vanyukha; didn't get far, took off his hat and bowed:

But Vanyukha won’t break their hats, he says:
- Great, Ilyukha!
Let's go together. Not long after, Fyodor Lyzhnikov arrived at the same post, he saw that it was written on the post, it is not good to disobey: Ilya Muromets has passed! - and he went there; I didn’t even get far to Vanyukha - he took off his hat and said:
- Hello, strong, mighty hero!
But Vanyukha doesn’t break his hat.
“Great,” he says, “Fedyunka!”
All three went together; They come to one state and stop at the royal meadows. The heroes set up tents for themselves, and Vanyukha crucified the oak; The two heroes tangled the horses with silk fetters, and Vanyukha tore the rod from the tree, twisted it and tangled his mare. Here they live. The king saw from his tower that his favorite meadows were being poisoned by some people, and they immediately ordered their neighbor to ask what kind of people they were? He arrived at the meadows, approached Ilya Muromets, and asked what kind of people they were and how they dared trample the royal meadows without permission? Ilya Muromets answered:
- It's none of our business! Ask the elder over there - a strong, mighty hero.
The ambassador approached Vanyukha. He shouted at him and didn’t let him say a word:
- Get out, while you’re still alive, and tell the tsar that a strong, mighty hero has come to his meadows, who killed forty heroes at one stroke, but the small fry has no estimate, and knocked him down with a stone, and Ilya Muromets and Fyodor Lyzhnikov are with him, and demands from The king's daughter is married.
He told this to the king. The Tsar had enough of the records: Ilya Muromets and Fyodor Lyzhnikov are there, but the third, who killed forty heroes at a time, is not in the records. Then the king ordered to gather an army, capture three heroes and bring them to him. Where to grab it? Vanyukha saw how the army began to approach closer; he shouted:
- Ilyukha! Go and drive them away, what kind of people are they? — he lies there, stretched out, and looks at him like an owl.

At those words, Ilya Muromets jumped onto his horse, drove him, not so much beat him with his hands as trampled him with his horse; He killed everyone and left only the pagans to the king. The king heard this misfortune, gathered more strength and sent to catch the heroes. Ivan the Fool shouted:
- Fedyunka! Go ahead and drive this bastard away!
He jumped on his horse, killed everyone, and left only the pagans.
What should the king do? Things are bad, the warriors have beaten the forces; The king became thoughtful and remembered that a strong hero, Dobrynya, lived in his kingdom. He sends him a letter, asking him to come defeat three heroes. Dobrynya has arrived; The Tsar met him on the third balcony, and Dobrynya, on top, rode up to the balcony level with the Tsar: that’s what he was like! We said hello and talked. He went to the royal meadows. Ilya Muromets and Fyodor Lyzhnikov saw that Dobrynya was coming towards them, they got scared, jumped on their horses and got out of there - they drove away. But Vanyukha didn’t have time. While he was picking up his little mare, Dobrynya drove up to him and laughed, what kind of strong, mighty hero is this? Small, skinny! He bent his head towards Vanyukha himself, looking at him and admiring him. Vanyukha somehow didn’t lose heart, he grabbed his saber and cut off his head.
The king saw this and got scared:
“Oh,” he says, “the hero killed Dobrynya; trouble now! Go quickly and call the hero to the palace.
Such honor came for Vanyukha that, father forbid! The carriages are the best, the people are all kind. They planted him and brought him to the king. The king treated him and gave him his daughter; They got married, and now they live and chew bread.
I was here, drinking honey; It flowed down my mustache but didn’t get into my mouth. They gave me a cap and started pushing me; They gave me a caftan, I go home, and the titmouse flies and says:
- Xin is good!
I thought:
- Throw it away and put it down!
He took it, threw it off, and put it down. This is not a fairy tale, but a saying, a fairy tale ahead!

There was an old man and an old woman; They had three sons: two were smart, the third was Ivanushka the Fool. The smart ones tended the sheep in the field, but the fool did nothing, just sat on the stove and caught flies.
One day the old woman cooked some argent dumplings and said to the fool:
- Come on, take these dumplings to the brothers; let them eat.
She poured a full pot and gave it to him; he wandered towards his brothers. The day was sunny; As soon as Ivanushka left the outskirts, he saw his shadow on the side and thought:
“What kind of person is this? He walks next to me, not a step behind: right, he wanted some dumplings?” And he began to throw dumplings at his shadow, and so he threw away every single one; looks, and the shadow keeps walking from the side.
- What an insatiable womb! - said the fool with a heart and threw a pot at her - the shards scattered in different directions.
So he comes empty-handed to his brothers; they ask him:
- You fool, why?
- I brought you lunch.
- Where is lunch? Come on lively.
- Look, brothers, an unknown person got attached to me on the way and ate everything!
- What kind of person is this?
- Here he is! And now it’s standing nearby!
The brothers scold him, beat him, beat him; They beat off and forced the sheep to graze, and they themselves went to the village to dine.
The fool began to herd; sees that the sheep have scattered across the field, let's catch them and tear out their eyes. He caught everyone, gouged out everyone’s eyes, gathered the herd into one heap and the little one sits there as if he had done the job. The brothers had lunch and returned to the field.
- What have you done, fool? Why is the flock blind?
- Why do they have eyes? When you left, brothers, the sheep scattered apart, and I came up with an idea: I started catching them, collecting them in a pile, tearing out their eyes - how tired I was!
- Wait, you’re not so smart yet! - the brothers say and let’s treat him with their fists; The fool got a lot of nuts!
Not much time had passed, the old people sent Ivan the Fool to the city to buy household chores for the holiday. Ivanushka bought everything: he bought a table, spoons, cups, and salt; a whole cartload of all sorts of things. He’s going home, and the little horse is such an unlucky little horse: he’s lucky or unlucky!
“Well,” Ivanushka thinks to himself, “the horse has four legs and the table also has four, so the table will run away on its own.”
He took the table and put it on the road. He drives and drives, whether close or far, and the crows hover over him and keep cawing.
“You know, the sisters are hungry to eat, that they shouted so much!” thought the fool. He placed the dishes with food on the ground and began to regale:
- Little sisters! Eat for your health.
And he keeps moving forward and forward.
Ivanushka is driving through a forest; All the stumps along the road are burnt.
“Eh,” he thinks, the guys are without hats; After all, they’ll be cold, dear ones!”
He took pots and pots and put them on them. So Ivanushka reached the river, let’s water the horse, but she still doesn’t drink.
“You know, he doesn’t want it without salt!” - and well, salt the water. I poured out a bag full of salt, but the horse still didn’t drink.
- Why don’t you drink, wolf meat? Did I pour out a bag of salt for nothing?
He grabbed her with a log, right in the head - and killed her on the spot. Ivanushka had only one purse of spoons left, and he carried that too. As he goes, the spoons go back and clang: clang, clank, clang! And he thinks that the spoons say: “Ivanushka is a fool!” - he threw them and, well, trampled them and said:
- Here's Ivanushka the fool! Here's Ivanushka the Fool! They even decided to tease you, you bastards! He returned home and said to his brothers:
- I've redeemed everything, brothers!
- Thank you, fool, but where are your purchases?
- And the table is running away, yes, you know, it’s lagging behind, they’re eating from the sisters’ dishes, he put pots and pots on the heads of the children in the forest, he salted the horse’s swill with salt; and the spoons were teasing - so I left them on the road.
- Go, fool, quickly! Collect everything you scattered along the road!
Ivanushka went into the forest, removed the pots from the charred stumps, knocked out the bottoms and put a dozen different pots on the batog: both large and small. Brings it home. His brothers beat him off; We went to the city ourselves to do some shopping, and left the fool to run the house. A fool listens, but the beer in the tub just ferments and ferments.
- Beer, don't wander! Don't tease the fool! - says Ivanushka.
No, beer doesn't listen; He took it and let everything out of the tub, sat down in the trough, drove around the hut and sang songs.
The brothers arrived, became very angry, took Ivanushka, sewed him up in a sack and dragged him to the river. They put the sack on the shore, and they themselves went to inspect the ice hole.
At that time, some gentleman was riding past in a troika of brown ones; Ivanushka and well shout:
- They put me in the voivodeship to judge and dress, but I don’t know how to judge or dress!
“Wait, fool,” said the master, “I know how to judge and judge; get out of the bag!
Ivanushka got out of the sack, sewed the master there, and he got into his cart and drove out of sight. The brothers came, lowered the sack under the ice and listened; and in the water it just gurgles.
- You know, the burka catches! - the brothers said and wandered home.
Out of nowhere, Ivanushka rides towards them in a troika, rides and boasts:
- That's a hundred horses I caught! And Sivko was still there - so nice!
The brothers became jealous; say to a fool:
- Now sew us up and quickly lower us into the hole! Sivko will not leave us...
Ivan the Fool lowered them into the ice hole and drove them home to finish their beer and commemorate their brothers.
Ivanushka had a well, and in the well there was a dace fish. That's

AND or, there was an old man and an old woman, they had three sons: two were smart, the third was Ivanushka the Fool. The smart ones tended the sheep in the field, but the fool did nothing, just sat on the stove and caught flies.

One day the old woman cooked some rye dumplings and said to the fool:

- Come on, take these dumplings to the brothers; let them eat.

She poured a full pot and gave it to him; he wandered towards his brothers. It was a sunny day, Ivanushka just went outside the outskirts, saw his shadow from the side and thought:

“What kind of person is walking next to me, not lagging behind me a single step: right, he wanted some dumplings?” And he began to throw dumplings at his shadow, and so he threw away every single one; looks, and the shadow keeps walking from the side.

- What an insatiable womb! - said the fool with a heart and threw a pot at her - the shards scattered in different directions.

So he comes empty-handed to his brothers; they ask him:

- You fool, why?

- I brought you lunch.

-Where is lunch? Come on lively.

- Look, brothers, an unknown person got attached to me on the way and ate everything!

- What kind of person is this?

- Here he is! And now it’s standing nearby!

The brothers scold him, beat him, beat him; They beat off and forced the sheep to graze, and they themselves went to the village to dine.

The fool began to herd; sees that the sheep have scattered across the field, let's catch them and tear out their eyes. He caught everyone, gouged out everyone’s eyes, gathered the herd into one heap and the little one sits there, as if he had done the job. The brothers had lunch and returned to the field.

- What have you done, fool? Why is the flock blind?

- Why do they have eyes? When you left, brothers, the sheep scattered apart, and I came up with an idea: I started catching them, collecting them in a pile, tearing out their eyes - how tired I was!

- Wait, you’re not so smart yet! - the brothers say, and let’s treat him with our fists; The fool got a lot of nuts!

Not much time had passed, the old people sent Ivan the Fool to the city to buy household chores for the holiday. Ivanushka bought everything: he bought a table, spoons, cups, and salt; a whole cartload of all sorts of things. He was going home, and the horse was so unlucky, you know: lucky or unlucky!

“Well,” Ivanushka thinks to himself, “the horse has four legs and the table also has four, so the table itself will run.”

He took the table and put it on the road. He drives and drives, whether close or far, and the crows hover over him and keep cawing.

“You know, the sisters are hungry to eat, they shouted so much!” - thought the fool. He placed the dishes with food on the ground and began to regale:

- Little sisters! Eat for your health.

And he keeps moving forward and forward.

Ivanushka is driving through a forest; All the stumps along the road are burnt.

“Eh,” he thinks, the guys are without hats; After all, they’ll be cold, dear ones!”

He took pots and pots and put them on them. So Ivanushka reached the river, let’s water the horse, but she doesn’t drink.

“You know, he doesn’t want it without salt!” - and well, salt the water. I poured out a bag full of salt, but the horse still didn’t drink.

- Why don’t you drink, wolf meat? Did I pour out a bag of salt for nothing?

He grabbed her with a log, right in the head - and killed her on the spot. Ivanushka had only one purse of spoons left, and he carried that too. As he goes, the spoons keep clanking: clink, clink, clink! And he thinks that the spoons say: “Ivanushka is a fool!” - he threw the spoons and, well, trampled and said:

- Here's Ivanushka the fool! Here's Ivanushka the Fool! They even decided to tease you, you bastards! He returned home and said to his brothers:

- I've redeemed everything, brothers!

- Thank you, fool, but where are your purchases?

“And the table is running, yes, you know, it’s lagging behind, they’re eating from the sisters’ dishes, they put pots and pots on the children’s heads in the forest, they salted the horse’s swill with salt; and the spoons are teasing - so I left them on the road.

- Go, fool, quickly! Take everything you scattered along the road!

Ivanushka went into the forest, removed the pots from the charred stumps, knocked out the bottoms and put a dozen different pots on the batog: both large and small. Brings it home. His brothers beat him off; We went to the city ourselves to do some shopping, and left the fool to run the house. A fool listens, but the beer in the tub just ferments and ferments.

- Beer, don't wander! Don't tease the fool! - says Ivanushka.

No, beer doesn't listen; He took and let everything out of the tub, sat down in the trough, drove around the hut and sang songs.

The brothers arrived, became very angry, took Ivanushka, sewed him up in a sack and dragged him to the river. They put the sack on the shore, and they themselves went to inspect the ice hole.

At that time, some gentleman was riding past in a troika of brown ones; Ivanushka and well shout:

“They put me in the voivodeship to judge and dress, but I don’t know how to judge or dress!”

“Wait, fool,” said the master, “I know how to judge and judge; get out of the bag!

Ivanushka got out of the sack, sewed the master there, and he got into his cart and drove out of sight. The brothers came, lowered the sack under the ice and listened; and in the water it just gurgles.

The brothers listened and wandered home.

Out of nowhere, Ivanushka rides towards them in a troika and boasts:

- These are the horses I caught! And Sivko was still there - so nice!

The brothers became jealous; say to a fool:

- Now sew us up and lower us into the hole! Sivko will not leave us...

Ivan the Fool lowered them into the ice hole and drove them home to drink beer and commemorate their brothers.

Ivanushka had a well, and in the well there was a dace fish, and my fairy tale was over.