There lived a grandfather and a woman; Grandfather became a widower and married another wife, and he still had a girl from his first wife. The evil stepmother did not like her, beat her and thought about how to completely destroy her.
Since the father has gone somewhere, the stepmother says to the girl:
- Go to your aunt, my sister, ask her for a needle and thread - to sew you a shirt.
And this aunt was Baba Yaga bone leg.
The girl wasn’t stupid, but she went to see her own aunt first.
- Hello, auntie!
- Hello, darling! Why did you come?
“Mother sent her to her sister to ask for a needle and thread to sew a shirt for me.” She teaches her:
- There, niece, a birch tree will whip you in the eyes - you tie it with a ribbon; there the gates will creak and slam for you - you pour oil under their heels; there the dogs will tear you apart - throw them some bread; There the cat will scratch your eyes - give him some ham. The girl went; here she comes, she comes and she has come. There is a hut, and Baba Yaga sits in it with a bone leg and weaves.
- Hello, auntie!
- Hello, darling!
“My mother sent me to ask you for a needle and thread to sew me a shirt.”
- Okay: sit down while you weave.
So the girl sat down at the crown, and Baba Yaga came out and said to her worker:
- Go, heat the bathhouse and wash your niece, and look carefully; I want to have breakfast with her.
The girl sits neither alive nor dead, all frightened, and she asks the worker:
- My dear! You don’t so much set fire to the wood as fill it with water, carry the water in a sieve,” and she gave her a handkerchief.
Baba Yaga is waiting; she went to the window and asked:
“Are you weaving, niece, are you weaving, dear?”
- Weave, auntie, weave, dear!
Baba Yaga walked away, and the girl gave the cat some ham and asked:
- Is there any way to get out of here?
“Here’s a comb and a towel for you,” says the cat, “take them and run away; Baba Yaga will be chasing you, put your ear to the ground and, when you hear that she is close, first throw in a towel - a wide, wide river will become; If Baba Yaga crosses the river and begins to catch up with you, you will again lay your ear to the ground and, when you hear that she is close, throw a comb - it will become a dense, dense forest, she will no longer get through it!
The girl took a towel and a comb and ran; the dogs wanted to tear her apart - she threw them some bread, and they let her through; the gate wanted to slam shut - she poured oil under their heels, and they let her through;
The birch tree wanted to quilt her eyes - she tied it with a ribbon, and she let her through. And the cat sat down at the cross and weaved; I didn’t so much mess up as I messed up. Baba Yaga came to the window and asked:
“Are you weaving, niece, are you weaving, dear?”
- Weave, auntie, weave, dear! - the cat answers rudely. Baba Yaga rushed into the hut, saw that the girl had left, and let’s beat the cat and scold him, why didn’t he scratch out the girl’s eyes?
“I serve you for as long as I can,” says the cat, “you didn’t give me a bone, but she gave me a ham.”
Baba Yaga attacked the dogs, the gate, the birch tree and the worker, let’s scold and beat everyone. The dogs tell her:
“As long as we serve you, you didn’t throw us a burnt crust, but she gave us some bread.” Gate says:
“As long as we serve you, you didn’t pour water under our heels, but she poured oil on us.” "Berezka says:
“As long as I’ve served you, you haven’t tied me up with a thread, but she tied me up with a ribbon.” The worker says:
“As long as I serve you, you didn’t give me a rag, but she gave me a handkerchief.”
Baba Yaga's bone leg quickly sat down on the mortar, pushed her with a pusher, covered her trail with a broom, and set off in pursuit of the girl. So the girl bowed her ear to the ground and heard that Baba Yaga was chasing, and it was already close, she just threw in the towel; the river became so wide, so wide! Baba Yaga came to the river and gnashed her teeth in anger; she returned home, took her oxen and drove them to the river; the bulls drank the whole river. clean.
Baba Yaga set off in pursuit again. The girl lowered her ear to the ground and heard that Baba Yaga was close and threw her comb; The forest became so dense and scary! Baba Yaga began to gnaw at it, but no matter how hard she tried, she could not gnaw through it and turned back.
And the grandfather has already arrived home and asks:
- Where is my daughter?
“She went to her aunt,” says the stepmother. A little later the girl came running home.
-Where have you been? - asks the father.
- Oh, father! - she says. - So and so - my mother sent me to my aunt to ask for a needle and thread - to sew a shirt for me, and my aunt, Baba Yaga, wanted to eat me.
- How did you leave, daughter?
“So and so,” says the girl.
When the grandfather found out all this, he became angry with his wife and shot her; and he and his daughter began to live and live and make good things, and I was there, drinking mead and beer; It flowed down my mustache but didn’t get into my mouth.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru