One day Puchika-Churika was left alone in the tent. His mother went to the pike constipation. The father of his black grouse went to shoot. The elder brother of his grouse went to shoot.
Puchika-Churika was left all alone in the plague. Puchik-Churik took his mother’s knife and began cutting the poles at the hearth. Then the old devil approached the tent and shouted:
- Puchika-Churika, where did your mother go?
- My mother went to constipation.
- Let me go chase your mother!
- Don’t drive my mother away! My mother will cut you in two with her big ax: one half of you will fly to heaven, the other half of you will go to the ground.
- Puchika-Churika, where did your father go?
- My father went to shoot black grouse.
- Let me go chase your father!
- Don't drive my father away. If you start chasing your father, my father will cut you in two with his great sword of refusal: one half of you will fly to the sky, the other half of you will go to the ground.
- Puchika-Churika, where did your brother go?
“My little grouse brother went to shoot.”
- Let me go chase your brother!
- Don't drive my brother away. My elder brother, with a big refusal, will cut you in two: one half of you will fly to heaven, the other half of you will go to the ground.
Then the old devil went crazy. Puchika-Churika crawled under the poles. He put his knife in his sleeve.
The old devil hit the ladle:
- Where did Puchika-Churika go? Kovshik says this:
-I won’t tell you about Puchik-Churik. Whatever food Puchika-Churik eats, this food gets to me first. Then he hit the cauldron:
- Where did Puchika-Churika go?
The boiler said this:
- I won’t tell you about Puchik-Churik. Whatever food Puchika-Churik eats, this food gets to me first.
Then the devil crawled all over the bottom. Having crawled around the bottom, he hit the poles:
- Where did Puchika-Churika go? The poles said this:
“Puchika-Churika cut our backs today, so he’s sitting under us!”
Then the old devil swallowed Puchik-Churik. And Puchik-Churik began to stab the old devil in the stomach with his knife. The devil started spinning like this:
“Someone is eating my belly.”
Puchika-Churik's belly was torn open by the old devil and fell out. The old devil jumped out of the tent and ran away. Then Puchik-Churik’s mother approached the tent and shouted:
- Puchika-Churika, bring a bunch of pike to the tent!
And Puchika-Churika says this:
“The devil swallowed me, the devil swallowed me.” Then his father came:
- Puchika-Churika, bring the bunches of black grouse to the tent!
- The devil swallowed me, the devil swallowed me! Then his brother came:
- Puchika-Churika, bring a bunch of grouse to the tent!
- The devil swallowed me, the devil swallowed me! Then everyone entered Chum with resin torches. As soon as they entered the tent, they saw: Puchika-Churik sitting all smeared and smeared. Then his mother washed him.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru