reading notes: russian folktales part b
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this man wanted to stay the night at this family's house, and they told him sure if he did not fear death. apparently death was coming by houses at night and killing everyone in there, and it was that houses turn. he stayed the night and stayed awake the entire time. death showed up and reached her arm through the window and was about to sprinkle from her pot, when the man chopped off her arm. he grabbed the arm and went to sleep. the next day he gathered everyone in town and went door to door, they found a little girl who the arm belonged to, and they burned her for being a witch.an old man grew a cabbage, and it grew so big he had to cut a hole in the floor for it, then the cieling, and then the sky. he climbed all the way up it and saw wonders in the heaven. he told his wife about this and said that they should move up there. she wasnt sure howd she get up there, so he offfered to carry her in a bag. he held the bag in his teeth and started to climb. after a long while she aske if they were almost ther, he said half way. they were getting near the top when she asked again, and he replied with almost there, but this time the bag slipped from his teeth and she fell to the ground and died.
there were two friends who were the best of friends. they agreed to invite one another to their weddings, even if they were dead. one of them died and the other was off to be married. on the way to get his bride, he stopped by his friends grave and invited him. he arose from the grave and invited him down to have a drink, he said no at first but was later convinced. he had three drinks, each making one hundred years pass in the world above. when he left the grave, he was shocked by what he saw and how much time had passed.
Story source: Russian Fairy Tales by W. R. S. Ralston (1887).
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