Enlight Kehermen-Ketil An old man and an old woman had two sons. The eldest, Kekhitran, was twelve years old, and the youngest, Kehermen-Ketil, was only a year and a half old. One day the brothers ran out into the street to... Chuvash Fairy Tales Fairy Tales
Enlight How the Chuvash got money Once upon a time, in the old days, a boat sailed down the Volga. In one place she landed on the shore. There were seven different denominations of coins in the boat: a kopeck, a semi-nik, a nickel, a ... Chuvash Fairy Tales Fairy Tales
Enlight Mamaldyk In the old days, one Chuvash named Tungyldyk had three daughters and one son. The eldest daughter's name was Chagak, which means Magpie, the middle one was Cheges, that is, Swallow, the youngest was C... Chuvash Fairy Tales Fairy Tales
Enlight Big hare One day my grandfather and I went hunting. They saw a hare and began to chase it. We hit with a club, but we cannot kill. Then I hit him with a Chernobyl rod and killed him. We started lifting him tog... Chuvash Fairy Tales Fairy Tales
Enlight Deaf godfather A man once met a godfather from a neighboring village at the market. - How are you doing, godfather? - asks. “Yes, I bought an ax,” answers the godfather. “Come and drink beer!” the man invites. — I p... Chuvash Fairy Tales Fairy Tales
Enlight Poor Ilyush It was a long time ago. One king named Eremey decided to marry off his daughter. But the condition was not the groom’s wealth or nobility, but his ability to speak eloquently. He announced this public... Chuvash Fairy Tales Fairy Tales
Enlight Uganda and Selendey There lived in a village a clever, resourceful man named Uganda. He was single, not married. And his younger sister Sernyuk managed the house. Once Uganda needed to buy a horse, but he didn’t have eno... Chuvash Fairy Tales Fairy Tales
Enlight Yuman-batyr Once upon a time, across the seventy-seven seas, there lived an old man and an old woman. They had a large orchard. Golden apples grew in the garden. And the old man and the old woman had plenty of ev... Chuvash Fairy Tales Fairy Tales
Enlight Money Barge haulers went to get hired for work. There were twelve of them, and all from different villages, so they had not seen each other before, did not know each other, they only met on the road. They w... Chuvash Fairy Tales Fairy Tales
Enlight Ulyp and Subedey The smiles helped the Chuvash a lot. Cutting down the forest, uprooting stumps, plowing and sowing virgin soil. And when enemy hordes attacked, swarms of enemies drove away and protected the Chuvash. ... Chuvash Fairy Tales Fairy Tales
Enlight Sier-batyr It was a long time ago. A great and terrible misfortune happened in this world: the king of all snakes and dragons, the great twelve-headed Astakha 1, captured the sun and the moon and swallowed them.... Chuvash Fairy Tales Fairy Tales
Enlight Old Man Uh Once upon a time there lived an old man and an old woman. Their children died. Only the last son, Ivan, grew up healthy. When Ivan turned seventeen, he began to ask his parents to send him to some kin... Chuvash Fairy Tales Fairy Tales
