Bulgarian fairy tale "The Hen that Lays Golden Eggs": plot

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

Every nation has its own fairy tales. And they all have their own characteristics. This article will focus on such a genre as the Bulgarian fairy tale. "The Hen Laying the Golden Eggs" is one of the most popular works of its kind in Bulgaria. What distinguishes the tales of this people? Firstly, Bulgaria remained an agrarian country for a long time, and therefore the motives associated with peasant life are strong in the works of its authors. Secondly, Bulgarian fairy tales are often told in a humorous or even satirical style. Thus, negative traits of human character are often ridiculed here: greed, stupidity, arrogance, and so on. The well-known Bulgarian fairy tale "The Hen that Lays the Golden Eggs" was no exception to this rule. Let's move on to its content.

Unexpected find

Once upon a time there was a poor peasant. He experienced many hardships with his family. And his hut was thin, and sometimes there was nothing to eat, and his clothes had long since turned into rags.

From everythingHis only we alth was a hen that laid one egg a day. Once a peasant went into the chicken coop, as usual, and found an egg under a 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 it from all sides, felt it. Yes, it really was a precious thing. Then the peasant came up with the idea that someone wants to play a trick on him, poor fellow. He looked around, but there was no one around. Still not believing in his happiness, the owner of the chicken coop took the egg to the jeweler so that he would confirm that the thing was really gold. The goldsmith, having examined the find, said to the peasant: “This is one hundred percent pure gold, and of the highest standard.” The satisfied owner of the chicken coop returned home, making the most daring plans in his head about what he would buy first of all by selling the jewel. This is how the tale of the hen that laid the golden eggs begins.

The peasant gets rich

The next day, just before dawn, our hero went to the market and sold off his expensive find. Returning home with a lot of money, the peasant threw a feast with a mountain, to which the whole village came running. Imagine the surprise of the poor man when the next day, coming to his chicken coop, he saw exactly the same golden egg under the perch. The surprise and joy of the peasant knew no bounds. Since then, he began to find one golden egg in his hen's nest every morning.

The poor man got rich. Now he bought himself and his familygood clothes, the best products in the market. And soon he moved to a big good 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 Goose that Lays the Golden Eggs" is an instructive work on how to increase your capital without going to extremes.

Rich Man's Wrath

Let a peasant live with his family and rejoice. But it was not there. Greed began to overcome yesterday's poor man. Now a rich peasant calculated in his mind what a good income he could receive if a hen laid not one testicle a day, but several. Every day he came to the chicken coop, trying to understand how his bird managed 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 it. The rich man began to overcome anger. But the Bulgarian folk tale about the hen that lays golden eggs does not end there. Further, our hero will do an irreparable deed, after which he will have to forget about the accumulation of we alth.

The peasant is left with nothing

One day, entering the chicken coop, the rich man could not stand it, ran to the perch with a sharp knife and cut his chicken in half.

What did he see? Only fragments of the nascentchicken egg in chicken. This is how the stupid and greedy peasant lost his permanent income. Next, we will talk about what the Bulgarian fairy tale “The Hen that Lays the Golden Eggs” teaches.

Moral of the story

Some people in the pursuit of we alth often lose everything they have. If greed is excessive, it can lead to complete collapse, as happened in this work. The greed of a person overshadows the eye, deprives him of the ability to correctly assess the situation. The sooner a child understands this, the more successful he will be in the future. A good lesson for children is the Bulgarian fairy tale "The Hen that Lays the Golden Eggs". Grade 2 is the time to get students acquainted with this instructive work.

Russian fairy tales about greed

Unwillingness to share, stinginess, greed in people are often ridiculed in folk tales. There are similar works in the literature of many countries. There are also in our Russian culture. Here you can remember some fairy tales.

1. "Greedy old woman". There lived an old man and an old woman. One day my grandfather went to the forest for firewood. He swung his ax to cut down a tree, and it asks him to spare the human voice, promising to fulfill any desire. The old man begged from the tree of we alth. Only this was not enough for his old woman. Along with greed, her requests also grew: for the old man to become a steward, then a gentleman, then a colonel, a general, a sovereign, and finally, the Lord himself. Hearing the last wish, she turned the tree of the old man and the old woman into bears.



2. "The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish". In a dugout near the blue sea lived an old man and an old woman. Every day my grandfather fished with a net. One day he was lucky enough to catch a goldfish, which promised him to fulfill any desire. The old man took pity on her, did not ask for anything and let her go to sea. The grandfather returned home and told the old woman about the find. The hostess climbed on him, forced him to return and ask the fish for a new trough. And then she ordered her old man to beg for a new hut, then a tower, in which she would be a columned 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 would serve her. As a result, the old woman was left only with her broken trough.
3. "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 priest for three clicks on the forehead. The service of the hard worker Balda has come to an end. No matter how the priest turned away, he had to “pay” in full for the services of a mercenary. From the first click the priest jumped up to the ceiling, from the second he lost his tongue, and from the third he lost his mind.
4. "Ax porridge". A soldier was returning home from service and he stopped by for the night in one village. I knocked on the door of the last hut. Grandma opened the door. She warned the serviceman that she would let him in for the 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. A campaigner undertook to cook porridge from an ax. He put a pot of water on the fire, put an ax in it and asked the greedy old woman for a bit of s alt … Andthen also sugar, cereals, butter … So the soldier outwitted the stingy mistress.

Children around the world fell in love with the Bulgarian fairy tale "The Hen that Lays the Golden Eggs". It is easy to read and the moral is easy to understand.