A wise old man and a foolish king. Tatar folk tale The Wise Old Man in Tatar language read

In times long past, there was a young king in one city. He disliked the old people and ordered them all to be killed. Only one boy saved his old father by hiding him in a dungeon.

Soon the king of a neighboring state declared war on the young king. The young king began to gather an army. Eget, who hid his father, went down to his father’s dungeon before setting out on a campaign to say goodbye. His father admonished him with these words:

My son, you are going to very distant places. You will suffer hardship and hunger there. It will come to the point where you will cut up all the horses and eat them. Even the commander’s horse will be slaughtered. After this you will turn back. On the way back, all the warriors will throw away the saddles and bridles taken from their horses. And don’t give up, even though it will be hard to carry. You will meet a horse of unprecedented beauty. To someone who does not have a saddle and bridle, he will not be given into your hands, but will run up to you, stop in front of you and bow his head. You put a bridle on him and take him to the commander. For this, the military leader will bring you closer to him and consider you his friend. Well, goodbye, go.

Everything happened as the old man predicted. During the campaign, the army ran out of all its food supplies, and the soldiers began to eat the meat of their horses. In the end, they slaughtered the warlord’s horse, ate it and moved back. To free themselves from the burden, the warriors threw away the saddles and bridles taken from the slaughtered horses. Only one eget, the one who remembered the words of his father, did not throw away either the saddle or the bridle.

On the way back, a horse of unprecedented beauty ran out to meet the army. Everyone rushed to catch him, but he didn’t fall into anyone’s hands. Finally, he himself ran up to the eget, who had a saddle and bridle, stopped in front of him and bowed his head. Eget put a bridle on the horse, took it to the commander and gave it to him. Since then, the eget became a friend of the military leader.

One day the king went with his army for a walk to the seashore. From the shore, the king saw something shining at the bottom of the sea. He ordered his soldiers to get from the bottom of the sea what shines. Many warriors dived and did not emerge.

The turn of the young eget, a friend of the military leader, was approaching.

Eget quickly jumped on his horse and rode home. He went into his father’s dungeon and told him about what was happening on the seashore. The old man listened to his son and said:

My son, there is a tall tree growing on the seashore. At the top of that tree there is a bird's nest, and in that nest lies a large diamond. The radiance from this stone is reflected on the surface of the sea and illuminates it. When it’s your turn to dive, you tell the king: “Sir, I will have to die this way and that, and therefore allow me to climb this tree and look for the last time towards my home.” The king will give you permission, and you take that stone out of the nest and give it to the king.

Eget returned to the seashore, and when it was his turn to dive, he said to the king:

Sir, I will have to die this way and that, and therefore allow me to climb this tree and look for the last time towards my native hearth.

The king allowed him. Eget climbed the tree; As soon as he reached the nest and grabbed a stone from there, the glow on the sea stopped, and all the people fell down. Eget came down from the tree and presented the king with a diamond.

My friend, how did you find out about this? When we went to war, you gave the commander a horse, and now you took it out and gave it a diamond,” the king was surprised.

“Oh, sir,” the eget answered: “you can say it’s scary, but you can’t say it’s hard.” Well, okay, I’ll rely on your mercy and say: I sheltered my father when you ordered to kill all the old people, and everything I did, I learned from him. Oh my lord, if you had not ordered to kill all the old people, they would have given a lot of good advice!

After this, the king ordered the old man to be released from the dungeon, began to keep him with him and showed him great honor. Then the king turned to his troops and said:

My warriors, I made a big mistake when I ordered to kill all the old people. If they were alive, our whole city would be full of wisdom.

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Even in ancient times there lived one padishah. He was cruel, especially did not like old people and ordered to kill everyone who was seventy years old. “Anyway, they are of no use,” said the ruthless padishah.

At that time, one young man lived in the capital of the padishah. He had a seventy-year-old father. The young man loved his father very much and saved him from execution. He made sure that the old man did not come into view of anyone. Every evening the young man came to his father and told him about everything he had seen and heard during the day.

One day a young man came to his father, and his father asked him:

- What's new in the world, son?

“This afternoon,” the young man began his story, “the padishah and his viziers came to the river bank. He saw

there was a sparkling precious stone at the bottom of the river and ordered to get it. The swimmers dived into the water, but did not find any stone there, and when they emerged, they saw that the precious stone was still sparkling at the bottom of the river. Neither the padishah nor his viziers can find out where the stone is.

- Tell me, son, is there a tree on the bank? - asked the old man.

- Eat. Its branches hang over the water in the place where the padishah saw the precious stone,” said the young man.

“Is there a nest on that tree?” the old man asked again.

- Well, listen to what I tell you. The precious stone lies not at the bottom of the river, but in a bird's nest. “Only his reflection shines in the water,” the old man said confidently.

The next morning the padishah and his viziers gathered on the river bank and looked - the stone still sparkled at the bottom. We dived - there was nothing! The viziers are standing there, unable to understand anything. Then a young man approached the padishah, bowed and said:

- Allow me, great padishah, to say a word: do not look for a stone in the water. Do you see the tree? There is a nest on that tree, and in the nest there is a stone. Look for him there.

The padishah just raised an eyebrow: “The viziers rushed to the tree and a minute later brought him a precious stone the size of a goose egg.” The padishah was surprised.

“You are considered learned people, but you turned out to be stupider than this young man!” - he reproached his viziers. And he asked the young man:

-Who told you about this?

“I guessed it myself,” answered the young man.

The viziers harbored a grudge against the young man. And what can I say - he disgraced them in front of the padishah! And the viziers decided to drive the young man away from the world. They came to the padishah and said:

“Dzhigit is bragging and says: “I can guess everything in the world.” Let me, padishah, show him two stallions identical in appearance, and let him, without going close to them, guess which stallion is young and which is old.

“Okay,” the padishah agreed.

He called the young man and said:

“Come here tomorrow, we will show you two stallions, and you will have to guess which one is young and which one is old.”

The young man bowed and, sad, returned home. At home, he again came to his father and silently sat down next to him.

-What are you thinking about, my son? - asks the old man.

“You, father, told the truth about the precious stone: it was found in a bird’s nest!” Now the padishah gave me another task. “And the young man told his father what problem he would have to solve tomorrow.

- Don't worry, son! This riddle is very simple,” his father reassured him. - Tomorrow you will go to the padishah and, when the stallions are brought out, look carefully at their habits: the young stallion will not take a step calmly - he will begin to dance from afar, and the old one will only lead with his head and give way to the young one.

The next morning the young man came to the padishah's courtyard. After some time, the padishah and his viziers went there too. The padishah waved his hand and two identical stallions were brought out. One stallion walks and dances around, while the other walks and just shakes his head.

“This stallion is young, and that stallion is old,” the young man said confidently.

Before the young man had time to guess this riddle, the viziers prepared a new one for him. They ordered two identical logs to be hewn, and the young man had to guess which log was sawn off from the upper half of the tree, and which from the lower half.

The young man returned home sad. He came to his father and told him about a new riddle.

“Don’t worry, son,” his father reassured him, “it’s not difficult to solve this riddle.” You ordered to lower both logs into the water and look: the log from the upper half of the tree will float up entirely, and the log sawn off from the lower half will sink into the water at one end.

Morning has come. The young man came to the appointed place, and there lay two identical logs. The padishah said to the young man:

- Here are two logs for you. Don’t touch them, but guess which one was sawn off from the top half of the tree, and which one from the lower half.

“Put both logs into the water,” said the young man.

They lowered the logs into the water, and immediately one floated to the top, while the other was half submerged in the water.

“This is the top part of the tree, this is the bottom,” the young man said confidently.

The padishah was surprised and asked: Who taught you this?

“I guessed it myself,” the young man answers.

“No, you are still too young and inexperienced and cannot know everything,” said the padishah. Tell the truth: who taught you? If you don't tell me, I'll have you executed!

One day the king and his minister went for a walk; he sees an old man working in a corn field. The king tells him:

Good morning, old man! Why didn't you get up earlier?

I got up, but God didn’t give me anything.

But snow fell on the mountain.

Yes, he, the noble king, is lying on the field.

What about your wolves, are they all in the forest?

Some are in the forest, others are not.

Well, old man, you answered me so well that I will send you a ram tomorrow, and you shorn it properly,” the king laughed and left.

He returned to the palace and ordered the minister to figure out what the old man told him, and if he doesn’t figure it out, he shouldn’t be a minister.

The poor fellow is afraid, he thinks, he wonders how to escape. He took three wallets with ducats and went to the old man to ask what the king was talking to him about. He didn’t want to answer. Then they told the minister that for each answer the old man must be given a purse full of gold coins. Well, the minister immediately brought the first wallet to the old man, and then began a conversation with him.

The old man said:

The king asked me why I didn’t get up earlier, which meant why I didn’t get married young, then my son would have worked in the field instead of me. I answered that I got married young, but God did not give me offspring.

The minister brought a second wallet with money, and the old man continued:

Then the king told me that snow had fallen on the mountain, which meant that my head had turned grey. I answered him that there was snow in the fields, and this meant that from old age not only my head, but also my beard had turned gray.

The minister pulled out the third purse of ducats, and the old man said:

And the king also asked if all my wolves were in the forest - this meant whether all my teeth were intact. So I answered that some exist, but others no longer exist.

The minister returned to the king and repeated everything that the old man had said.

Then the king asked him:

Did the old man tell you anything about the ram?

I figured it out about the ram myself. When you told him that you would send him a ram so that he could shorn it properly, you thought about me. The old man lured me out of three wallets of ducats - he shorn me like a ram, without scissors.

Bashkir folk tale

In times long past, there was a young king in one city. He disliked the old people and ordered them all to be killed. Only one boy saved his old father by hiding him in a dungeon.

Soon the king of a neighboring state declared war on the young king. The young king began to gather an army. Eget, who hid his father, went down to his father’s dungeon before setting out on a campaign to say goodbye. His father admonished him with these words:

My son, you are going to very distant places. You will suffer hardship and hunger there. It will come to the point where you will cut up all the horses and eat them. Even the commander’s horse will be slaughtered. After this you will turn back. On the way back, all the warriors will throw away the saddles and bridles taken from their horses. And don’t give up, even though it will be hard to carry. You will meet a horse of unprecedented beauty. To someone who does not have a saddle and bridle, he will not be given into your hands, but will run up to you, stop in front of you and bow his head. You put a bridle on him and take him to the commander. For this, the military leader will bring you closer to him and consider you his friend. Well, goodbye, go.

Everything happened as the old man predicted. During the campaign, the army ran out of all its food supplies, and the soldiers began to eat the meat of their horses. In the end, they slaughtered the warlord’s horse, ate it and moved back. To free themselves from the burden, the warriors threw away the saddles and bridles taken from the slaughtered horses. Only one eget, the one who remembered the words of his father, did not throw away either the saddle or the bridle.

On the way back, a horse of unprecedented beauty ran out to meet the army. Everyone rushed to catch him, but he didn’t fall into anyone’s hands. Finally, he himself ran up to the eget, who had a saddle and bridle, stopped in front of him and bowed his head. Eget put a bridle on the horse, took it to the commander and gave it to him. Since then, the eget became a friend of the military leader.

One day the king went with his army for a walk to the seashore. From the shore, the king saw something shining at the bottom of the sea. He ordered his soldiers to get from the bottom of the sea what shines. Many warriors dived and did not emerge.

The turn of the young eget, a friend of the military leader, was approaching.

Eget quickly jumped on his horse and rode home. He went into his father’s dungeon and told him about what was happening on the seashore. The old man listened to his son and said:

My son, there is a tall tree growing on the seashore. At the top of that tree there is a bird's nest, and in that nest lies a large diamond. The radiance from this stone is reflected on the surface of the sea and illuminates it. When it’s your turn to dive, you tell the king: “Sir, I will have to die this way and that, and therefore allow me to climb this tree and look for the last time towards my home.” The king will give you permission, and you take that stone out of the nest and give it to the king.

Eget returned to the seashore, and when it was his turn to dive, he said to the king:

Sir, I will have to die this way and that, and therefore allow me to climb this tree and look for the last time towards my native hearth.

The king allowed him. Eget climbed the tree; As soon as he reached the nest and grabbed a stone from there, the glow on the sea stopped, and all the people fell down. Eget came down from the tree and presented the king with a diamond.

My friend, how did you find out about this? When we went to war, you gave the commander a horse, and now you took out and gave him a diamond,” the king was surprised.

“Oh, sir,” the eget answered: “you can say it’s scary, but you won’t say it’s hard.” Well, okay, I’ll rely on your mercy and say: I sheltered my father when you ordered to kill all the old people, and everything I did, I learned from him. Oh my lord, if you had not ordered to kill all the old people, they would have given a lot of good advice!

After this, the king ordered the old man to be released from the dungeon, began to keep him with him and showed him great honor. Then the king turned to his troops and said:

My warriors, I made a big mistake when I ordered to kill all the old people. If they were alive, our whole city would be full of wisdom.

THE WISE OLD MAN AND THE STUPID KING

In times long past, there was a young king in one city. He disliked the old people and ordered them all to be killed. Only one boy saved his old father by hiding him in a dungeon.

Soon the king of a neighboring state declared war on the young king. The young king began to gather an army. Eget, who hid his father, went down to his father’s dungeon before setting out on a campaign to say goodbye. His father admonished him with these words:

My son, you are going to very distant places. You will suffer hardship and hunger there. It will come to the point where you will cut up all the horses and eat them. Even the commander’s horse will be slaughtered. After this, willy-nilly, you will turn back. On the way back, all the warriors will throw away the saddles and bridles taken from their horses. And don’t give up, even though it will be hard to carry. You will meet a horse of unprecedented beauty. To someone who does not have a saddle and bridle, he will not be given into your hands, but will run up to you, stop in front of you and bow his head. You put a bridle on him and take him to the commander. For this, the military leader will bring you closer to him and will consider you his friend. Well, goodbye, go.

Everything happened as the old man predicted. During the campaign, the army ran out of all its food supplies, and the soldiers began to eat the meat of their horses. In the end, they slaughtered the warlord’s horse, ate it and moved back. To free themselves from the burden, the warriors threw away the saddles and bridles taken from the slaughtered horses. Only one eget, the one who remembered the words of his father, did not throw away either the saddle or the bridle.

On the way back, a horse of unprecedented beauty ran out to meet the army. Everyone rushed to catch him, but he didn’t fall into anyone’s hands. Finally, he himself ran up to the eget, who had a saddle and bridle, stopped in front of him and bowed his head. Eget put a bridle on the horse, took it to the commander and gave it to him. Since then, the eget became a friend of the military leader.

One day the king went with his army for a walk to the seashore. From the shore, the king saw something shining at the bottom of the sea. He ordered his soldiers to get from the bottom of the sea what shines. Many warriors dived and did not emerge.

The turn of the young eget, a friend of the military leader, was approaching.

Eget quickly jumped on his horse and rode home. He went into his father’s dungeon and told him about what was happening on the seashore. The old man listened to his son and said:

My son, there is a tall tree growing on the seashore. At the top of that tree there is a bird's nest, and in that nest lies a large diamond. The radiance from this stone is reflected on the surface of the sea and illuminates it. When it’s your turn to dive, you tell the king: “Sir, I will have to die this way and that, and therefore allow me to climb this tree and look for the last time towards my home.” The king will give you permission, and you take that stone out of the nest and give it to the king.

Eget returned to the seashore, and when it was his turn to dive, he said to the king:

Sir, I will have to die this way and that, and therefore allow me to climb this tree and look for the last time towards my native hearth.

The king allowed him. Eget climbed the tree; As soon as he reached the nest and grabbed a stone from there, the glow on the sea stopped, and all the people fell down. Eget came down from the tree and presented the king with a diamond.

My friend, how did you find out about this? When we went to war, you gave the commander a horse, and now you took out and gave him a diamond,” the king was surprised.

“Oh, sir,” the eget answered: “you can say it’s scary, but you won’t say it’s hard.” Well, okay, I’ll rely on your mercy and say: I sheltered my old father when you ordered to kill all the old people, and everything I did, I learned from him. Oh my lord, if you had not ordered to kill all the old people, they would have given a lot of good advice!

After this, the king ordered the old man to be released from the dungeon, began to keep him with him and showed him great honor. Then the king went outside, turned to his troops and said:

My warriors, I made a big mistake when I ordered to kill all the old people. If they were alive, our whole city would be full of wisdom.

Once upon a time there were a decrepit old man and an old woman. In their entire long life they had no children. They only had one dog, named “Sarbai”. Sarbai was a beautiful dog, and the old people loved him very much. But then the old man and the old woman had a child.

After this, Sarbai’s life became different: his owners did not pay attention to him, rarely fed him, and he began to lose weight.

One day Sarbai ran into the forest and met there his old friend, a wolf.

Friend Sarbai! What happened to you? - the wolf was surprised. - Why are you so sad?

Previously, the only joy of the owners was me,” Sarbai answered and became sad. - And now they have a child, and I am no longer held in high esteem. It became difficult for me to live.

Don’t worry, Sarbai,” said the wolf. “As soon as summer comes and your owners go to reap bread, I will snatch the child away from them.” Then they will love you again as before.

Sarbai thought about it, but began to wait for the onset of summer.

Here it comes. It got hot. When the grain was ripe, the harvest began, the old man and the old woman took the child with them into the field and began to reap the grain. The child was sleeping in the cart, and Sarbai was lying nearby.

Suddenly a wolf crept up to the cart and carried away the child. The child began to cry pitifully, and Sarbai felt sorry for him, and with a frantic bark he rushed in pursuit of the wolf.

The old man and the old woman were working far away, but they heard Sarbai barking, ran up to the cart and saw that the child was gone.

Out of grief they began to cry loudly. Meanwhile, Sarbai caught up with the wolf and took the child from him.

Sarbai brought the child to the old people. They were very happy. As a reward for saving the child, they began to feed Sarbai better than before, and he healed happily.