In ancient times, there lived three brothers who hunted wild deer and caught fish. Two brothers were smart, and the third, Ivul, was completely bad.
So one day the older brothers went hunting, Ivulya was punished!
- Move in that direction and stop on the river.
Ivul migrated to the river and drove the deer straight into the water. Deer do not want to go into the water. Ivul thought that they were afraid to wet their high boots, and tore the kamus from the reindeer’s legs.
Ivul began to set up a tent on the water - the water carried away all the poles and rovdugs. And the deer with skinned legs began to die.
The brothers came from hunting. They look: there is no plague anywhere and the deer are lying there and dying.
[Kamus is the skin from the legs of a deer.]
[Rovduga - suede made from deer skin, used for sewing clothes, arranging homes, etc.]
They ask Ivul:
- Where are you going? Why did you kill the deer?
— You said to stop at the river. The chum began to set up - the water carried away the poles and the rovduga. But the deer didn’t want to go into the water so as not to get their boots wet. So I took off their high boots.
The brothers beat the fool Ivul, but this did not make him any smarter. That’s how they lived: what would they say to Ivul, but he would still do the wrong thing.
So the brothers decided to make a boat. They let their reindeer graze. They went out to get the resin themselves to pitch the boat. Ivul was told:
- Go to the taiga and get ribs for the boat. There are many animals in the taiga. Here's your bow and arrows. When you see a living animal, shoot!
Ivul took his bow and arrows and went into the taiga.
I searched and searched for ribs for the boat, but I couldn’t find them anywhere. I saw deer, shot them, pulled out their ribs and brought them to my brothers.
The brothers saw the deer ribs and said:
- Why did you bring deer ribs? The boat needs wooden ribs. What kind of deer did you shoot?
The brothers went to the taiga. Ivul showed them the killed deer.
- You destroyed the last of our deer! How will we travel? How will we live?
“You said it yourself: it’s dangerous in the taiga, if you see an animal, shoot!” And they ordered to get the ribs.
They wanted to punish Ivul, but changed their mind: he still won’t understand. So they decided: let him punish himself if he is a fool.
One day they say to Ivul:
- Taimen lives at the bottom of the river. Invited you to visit. It's been waiting for you for a long time. To swim to the bottom faster, take a big stone.
Fool Ivul found a large stone and jumped into the water from a high bank. So Ivul drowned in the river.
But his brothers moved to another place and still live there.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru