There was a witch in the same forest. So strong and fierce!.. It walked through the forest and choked and tore apart everything that lived.
The forest was great, and there was a new abundance of animals, and the fear of pests was upon everyone. Even so, there is no hope of fate, and in the whole forest there will be no loss of a living soul, if the Burmese rule so much.
Rada in radha, they decided to send envoys to the witch and tell him: “Great master of the witch! Why do you need so much? Take one, and ten of them will be dealt with out of anger and leave! There’s no way in the forest. It’s better to do something: sit quietly in your head, and we’ll send one of us today to help you.”
Having heard the witch say:
- Good! Just remember: if you fool me for one day, I’ll tear you apart!
From that day on, the animals began, day after day, to give one to each other. They began to throw foals day by day: whoever fell on him, he and the muss and went to the bear...
One day I lost a foal to a hare.
The poor little bunny hopped around so hard you can’t say it!.. So what was going to work? Others were walking around, messing around and drinking. And without fussing. Just asking for a year to say goodbye to your wife and children. Before they knew the wife, before they called to their whole family, before they said goodbye and cried, and then hugged, then the sun began to fade in the afternoon.
It was time for the rabbits to go on the road.
I'm going to go to Vedmezha Gavra. But don’t think that you’re going to run like a hare and run away from the wind! Guy, guy! Now the poor hare has no time to jump. As you go from foot to foot, as you stand, you wipe all your clothes with tears, and you sit so that the moon is already walking through the forest. It’s already clear: in the middle of the forest there is a spring of Kamyan, lined, and below the water is deep.
The hare stands above the tsamrina, looks down, and his tears drip-drip into the water. She immediately became cheerful and jumped up with joy. A happy thought appeared in his head: as if he himself, in the face of death, would turn around and remove all animals from this fierce and insane witch.
And no longer weeping and no longer withering, but running with spirit, hastening to the next stop.
It was already evening. The witch spent the whole day sitting at her head, waiting for the beast to send someone for lunch.
I waited and could not wait for anyone. Hunger began to bother me, and at the same time, with hunger, anger began to approach my heart.
- What is it? - the witch roared, - What are you thinking? Why have they forgotten about me, why do they think that with one crow I will last two days? Oh, damned beasts! If the grass does not come from them right away, then I swear by the beech and birch bark that tomorrow I will soon destroy the light to the forest and see everything that is alive in it! I won’t deprive you of one tail!..
It passed by, year after year, year after year, but the grass did not come.
The next day the witch no longer knew what to earn from hunger and cruelty.
In such a mood you will be caught.
“Hey, you, it’s crazy, you, whip, you, goose wind,” shouting at the new witch. “What do you think, that you’re coming so late?” But I, such a mosquito, have to wait a whole day hungry?..
The hare froze, having felt the witch's cry and the witch's fierce words, and soon woke up and stood on his hind legs in front of the bear, rinsing, as soon as possible, the best:
- Noble sir! It’s not my fault that I come so late. And you can’t blame the animals. Today, on the day of your name day, the stench, which had already gathered before dawn, sent four of us for you, and they all went with the wind to you, asking you, noble sir, to have a good ball today.
- Well, so what? Why are you coming so late and where are these three? - asking the witch.
“We’ve had too much luck,” said the hare. - Fading, since there is no other gentleman in that forest except you, let’s walk along a little calmly; when a majestic witch jumped out of the stone castle and came to us: “Halt!” - shout. We have become. “Where are you going?” We were told the truth. “Hey, hey,” he shouted, “There won’t be anything of that! This is a forest, and I won’t allow you to eat any kind of stray with your meat, because there’s no right here! You’re mine, and I’m taking you with me for lunch!”
Let us begin to ask for blessings, and begin to say that it is your birthday, and it will be even worse if you are deprived of lunch on such a day. That's where you are! I don’t want to hear from Anya. “I’m the master here,” he shouts, “and I’m the only one who has any right over you! And no one here dares to betray me!” And he took us a short distance to his castle. Ledve-ledve I begged you, so that I would like to let one of you go to you. Now, noble sir, calm down yourself, it is our fault that you washed yourself out of hunger today and that you continued to work.
Having felt this, the witch was already very excited. All of his anger turned towards that new rival, who had become so unsatisfactory in his old age.
- There’s no need to dare to get here! - the wine roars, shaking the ground with its pazures. - Hey, bunny, take me to this new place now, don’t stop me from tearing him into pieces!
“Noble sir,” said the hare. - This is such a mighty gentleman, so scary.
- What? Do you think that I will be afraid of you? Take me to the next level right away, bachimo, whoever will be strong!
- Noble sir, he is still alive at the stone castle.
- Oh, what is my castle there! Lead me as far as I can, even if I reach the very top of the tallest tree.
Having seen off the angry hare to the point of crisis:
- Great is your strength! Bach, your enemy, as soon as you are approaching, immediately darted and got to your castle.
- De vin? De vin? - shouting the witch, looking around and not seeing anyone.
- Come here and take a look here! - Moving the hare and bringing the bear to the hospital.
Standing as a witch over the tyrant, looking down, there is truth in the witch.
“Bachish your enemy,” the hare said, “how does he look from his fortification?”
- I won’t be if I don’t get to see you! - having washed the witch and how not to shoot the witch from the whole throat!
And from the crystal you can’t hear your voice, which is twice as strong as from the majestic trumpet!
- Is that so? - the witch shouted. - Are you still threatening? Look out, I'll show you!
And behind this word, the witch went to the bottom and drowned there.
And having jumped the spirit to the animals and their offspring, in some way he made the bear wiser and removed them from grave misfortune.
I don’t need to tell you that there was joy in the whole forest.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru