Week 14 Extra Reading Diary: Russian Fairy Tales cont.

Image Information. The Headless Princess. Source: Abyssual

The Witch Girl:

Death visits every night. Cut off the intruders arm, the family wasn’t killed. Found the witch by looking for someone with a cut off arm. Witch was drowned.

The Headless Princess:

Enchantress daughter. Princess who took off her head when she washed herself. Kid to read psalms over the princesses body. He said no because he thought she was a witch. Don’t look behind you. Boy did all he was told, the witch princess did not get free, and the king rewarded the boy handsomely.

The Warlock:

Father’s death wish. Wives did not follow them and so he strangled two of three. Third one was too smart and got lots of money for outsmarting the dead father.

The Fox Physician:

Cabbage stalk kept growing and growing. Went to carry his old woman up the stalk and she got smashed to pieces. Fox ate the old woman up. Old man left alone and in poverty.

The Fiddler in Hell:

Prosperous man who died without telling his children where all of his money was. Because he did not give to the poor or give his money to his children, he was to be tortured in the afterlife. If he didn’t eat for three years he would be saved. Released from depths of hell.

The Two Friends:

Marriage pact. Except one man died. The other one got married. Invited his dead friend to the wedding. Dead friend invites him into his grave for a drink. While he drank hundreds of years passed. Lost his wife after he escaped because so much time had passed.

The Shroud:

Stolen shroud. Girl who disrespected the dead disappeared from sight.

The Coffin-Lid:

Fell into a grave. Corpse trying to tell them how to be brought to life. Moujik escaped and told the town. They vanquished the corpse and he was given great honor.

The Two Corpses:

Two corpses that reanimated. Wanted to eat a soldier. Daybreak and they deanimated and the men were saved.

The Dog and the Corpse:

Graveyard in the dark. Decides to just keep going. Came across a corpse. Dog saved him. Left his dog behind. Dog followed him and tried to attack him. Dog disgusted that his master had not helped him with the corpse. Never forgot how the master had offended him. SO THEY KILLED IT.

The Soldier and the Vampire:

God punishment. Warlock sitting by a fire in a graveyard. Warlock invited soldier to a wedding. Warlock going to kill the soldier. A haunting. Turns out the couple actually had died that night. Soldier says he can bring them back to life. Burned warlock alive.