Old man Ydokhot lives with his daughter, and Kolmas and his daughter live next door.
Kolmasam came to the old man and said:
- Old man, take your daughter away, take her away!
How long or how long did she go to Ydohot? The old man said:
- Oooh, she’s so annoying, she’s been buzzing my ears!
Kolmasam walked and walked, and the old man finally took his daughter away.
The hut is standing, he put it there.
“I,” he says, “walk around a little outside, and you sit here!”
She waited and waited for her father, but there was no father.
On the street, the loots are suspended. She looked - her father was gone. And then the bear came and said to her:
- Give me these feathers! If you screw up badly, I'll eat you.
She weaved, weaved, weaved well. The night passed, the bear came. She gave him her work. The bear examined it - it was well woven. He tied a bell to the side of her belt. I took the bow myself.
“Now,” he says, “run around the hut, and I’ll shoot.” If I hit the tongue of the bell, then I will eat you, and if I don’t hit, then I won’t eat you.
She started running. Although he fired, he did not hit the bell tongue.
“Well,” he says, “live, I didn’t hit the bell.”
The bear brought and gave her a chest full of various things, took the skeins of thread and left.
Kolmasam beat a bitch at home to find out from her about the old man’s daughter. I asked her:
“Won’t the old man bring his daughter’s bones in a bag?”
The bitch replied:
“No, she won’t bring it in a bag, the old man’s daughter will return alive.”
Kolmasam said to the old man:
- Go get your daughter, go!
The old man says:
“How strange,” she was already buzzing all my ears.
He went to his daughter, took the bag, he didn’t know that his daughter was alive. I came to my daughter, walked in, and my daughter was full of things! They went home and came home with their daughter.
Kolmasam saw that the old man’s daughter was now rich, and began to tell him again:
- Old man, take my daughter away!
The old man took her away, brought her to the same hut and left her there, and he left.
She sits - the bear comes, brought her a full bag of hemp and says:
- Weave me threads from this hemp! If you weave poorly, I will eat you, if you weave well, I won’t eat you!
The bear left.
Mice came to her at night, she said to the mice:
“Girlfriends, help me, weave this hemp quickly, the bear will give us different things!”
The night passed, the bear came - there was no thread, no hemp, the mice took it away. The bear, without saying anything, tied a bell to her belt:
“Now,” he says, “run around the hut.” If I don't hit the tongue of the bell, then I won't eat you.
She runs, and he shoots - he hits the bell tongue. The bear grabbed her, ate her, put her bones together and left.
Kolmasam says to the old man at home:
- Go get my daughter!
The old man left, came to the hut, but the girl was not there, only the bones lay together. The old man collected these bones in a bag and took them to the kolmas.
“Here,” he says, “these are the bones of your daughter.”
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru