e that s awake. A sleeping eye serves him bad fortune as he had chosen a beautiful woman but married a woman like him - with different eyes, who had been also selling stolen goods. They live together and getting old he gets worse in seeing and hearing, on the way to senate, where he wanted to find a job, the policeman - the only one - tells him the truth about his physical deficiencies that made him go back home. Small settlement God sends a cursed cow short horns - even attorneys wife and son had such like eyes like his, such people do need two sound ears or eyes or nose as they will all the same be blind and deaf to the things that they do need or that bring no profit but just troubles 7. Russian Folktales «An Uncouth landowner» - «Дикий поміщик» [42]
CharactersStory developmentLocationsMoraleMain Minor Landowner, men - serving the land-owner (muzhiki), district police officer (ispravnik), 4 generals, the bearA landowner having all the material wealth could not find rest for his soul. So he asks God to take all men (muzhiki) away; but God did not satisfy his pray, He decided to help the men instead as the landowner, having become very greedy, deprived them of everything as the landowner stays alone there was no one to take care of him and he gets more and more savage until he becomes as wild as an animal. His desire to prove everyone that he could live without the men, brought many problems to the life in the district in the whole; so his men were returned and the landowner was restored to the previous way of life again.Land-owners house, his garden, the woods Let everyone look to himself, and no one will be lost (Dutch)- this is not about our hero, as he loses himself completely; Each man must suffer for his own sin (Chinese) - this best suited to him.
Table 8. Russian Folktales «An oblivious ram» - «Баран Непомнящий» [42]
CharactersStory developmentLocationsMoraleMain Minor Merino ram, sheep, sheep-breeder, Land-ownerA merino ram has a weird dream, the meaning of which he did not understand . The dream was beautiful and bothered the ram to such extent, that it was carrying out his function no more - to create a merino-sheep flock. The landowner paid big money and did not send it to slaughter; so once in the night the merino seems to see something up in the skies, jerked and died of a mysterious morbus.Farm, sheep-fold There sa black sheep in every family. (American) - the ram saw itself free in his dream, forgetting it was just a ram and no more. All other sheep in the flock did not understand his worries and just laughed at it. Ignorance is the cause of fear. (Roman) - the ram died in vain in ignorance, so for him ignorance was even death. 9. Russian Folktales «A tale of one man who fed two generals» - «Повість про те, як один мужик двох генералів прогодував» [42]
CharactersStory developmentLocationsMoraleMain Minor Two generals, a man - muzhik.CooksThe author places two generals on an uninhabited island. The two were in their pyjamas and had nothing more but a journal. They wanted to eat and searched the island but found nothing but fruit high on the trees, birds flying alive, rabbits and other animals that needed to be cook...
