Once upon a time there lived an old man and an old woman. They didn't have children.
The old woman says:
- Old man, mold a boy out of clay, as if he were an owl.
The old man sculpted a boy from clay. They put it on the stove to dry. The guy dried up and began to ask for food:
“Give me, grandma, a little tub of milk and some soft bread.”
The old woman brought it to him, but he ate it all and asked again:
- I want to eat! I want to eat!
And he ate all the bread from the old man and the old woman, drank all the milk and again shouted:
- I want to eat! I want to eat!
There is nothing more to give him. The clay guy jumped off the stove and ate the grandmother with the spinning wheel, the grandfather with the hockey stick - and went outside.
A bull is coming towards you. The clay guy tells him:
- I ate five pieces of bread, five tubs of milk, a grandmother with a spinning wheel, a grandfather with a hockey stick - and I’ll eat you, bull!
And he ate a bull.
Moves on. We meet woodcutters with axes.
Clay guy says:
“I ate five pieces of bread, five tubs of milk, a grandmother with a spinning wheel, a grandfather with a hockey stick, a bull with horns - and I’ll eat you all!”
And he ate woodcutters with axes.
Moves on. Men with braids and women with rakes meet him.
The clay guy tells them:
“I ate five pieces of bread, five tubs of milk, a grandmother with a spinning wheel, a grandfather with a stick, a bull with horns, woodcutters with axes - and I’ll eat you all!”
He ate men with braids and women with rakes and moved on.
Clay guy met a goat and said:
“I ate five pieces of bread, five tubs of milk, a grandmother with a spinning wheel, a grandfather with a hockey stick, a bull with horns, woodcutters with axes, men with scythes, women with rakes - and I’ll eat you, you goat!”
And the goat says to him:
- Don’t bother, stand down the hill, and I’ll stand on the hill, run into your mouth and jump.
The Clay Guy stood downhill, and the goat ran away from the mountain and hit him in the belly with its horns! This is where the Clay Guy fell apart.
And out of the belly came a grandmother with a spinning wheel, a grandfather with a hockey stick, a bull with horns, woodcutters with axes, men with scythes and women with rakes.
The goat saved everyone.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru