In the old years, in the old days, in the red spring, in the warm summers, there was such a chaos, a burden in the world: mosquitoes and midges began to appear, bite people, and draw hot blood. Mizgir appeared, a daring good fellow, began to shake his legs and weave hems, placing them on the path, on the paths where mosquitoes and midges fly.
The fly is dirty, the line is not good, it flew, but almost fell, and ended up in the misgir’s net; Then the misgir began to beat her, destroy her, and put pressure on her throat. The Mizgir fly prayed:
- Father Mizgir! Don’t beat me, don’t ruin me: I’ll have a lot of orphaned children, walk around the yards and tease dogs.
Then the mizgir lowered her; she flew, muttered, and announced to all the mosquitoes and midges:
- Oh, you mosquitoes and midges! Get away under the aspen bark: the misgir appeared, began to shake its legs, weave hems, put it on the path, on the paths where mosquitoes and midges fly; catches everyone!
They flew, hid under the aspen bark, and lay as if they were dead.
Mizgir went and found a cricket, a cockroach and a bug:
- You, cricket, sit on a hummock and drink some tobacco; and you, cockroach, beat the drum, and you, pancake bug, go under the aspen bark, spread such fame about me, the Mizgir fighter, the good fellow, that the Mizgir fighter, the good fellow, is no longer alive: they sent me to Kazan, in Kazan they cut off my head on the scaffold and split the scaffold.
The cricket sat down on a hummock to drink some tobacco, and the cockroach beat the drum; The pancake bug went under the aspen bark and said:
- What are you doing, are you lying there as if you were dead? After all, the Mizgir fighter, a good fellow, is no longer alive: he was sent to Kazan, in Kazan his head was cut off on the scaffold and the scaffold was split into pieces.
They rejoiced and rejoiced, crossed themselves in threes, flew, almost fell, and all ended up in the Mizgir’s net.
He says:
- That you are very small! If only they would visit me more often, drink beer and wine and serve it to us!
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru