There lived an old man at the mouth of the river. He was storing fish. That old man raised a bear. He took care of him like his son. He goes for fish, and the bear goes with him.
The old man saw the seal and turned to the bear:
“I’ll kill that seal and sew myself an apron.” Well, Oko, let's guard the boat.
The old man was sneaking and sneaking, and he could hit him with a stick! Stunned. The old man grabbed the seal by the flippers. The seal drags and drags the old man. So it carried him to the bottom of the sea.
An old man woke up in the morning in a big house. Next to him is a seal. There are no doors. Inside the house there is a fire, cups, seal skins. That seal was beautiful and spotted.
“Where have I come?” thought the old man.
Nerpa says:
You wanted to kill me. For what?
-Are you a man or a seal?
- I am the queen of the sea.
“What a disaster,” the old man thought, “I almost killed the queen of the sea.”
“Give me your bear,” says the seal. “If you don’t give it back, I’ll kill you.”
- I'll give it back. Just leave me.
The seal tells him:
- Tell me: how do you live, how do you work?
Let the old man tell her:
- I am many years old, I live at the mouth of the Tym River in a hut. I live alone, hunting for seals and fish. In autumn and winter I go animal hunting. Only sometimes, for some reason, I can’t catch fish or seals,” the old man complains.
- Throw tobacco and various foods into the water. I will send you a lot of seals and fish.
- How can I get home?
“I’ll give you a boat and I’ll go with you after the bear.”
We reached the old man's hut. The old man says to the bear:
- Well, Oko, I give you to the queen of the sea.
- So. Now I will send you fish and seals for three years.
As the seal said, so it was. For three years, fish and seals went to the old man. He became rich.
But that's not true. This is a fairy tale.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru