Reading Diary A: Russian Folktales

Russian Folktales

The Dead Mother:

• The title is a little morbid
• Everyone always looks happy from the outside 
• Moujik weird name and the wiki didnt explain much about the exact name 
• How do they know someone opened the door and came up to the cradle without seeing anything?
• The dead mom was coming back to feed the baby, and then they baby died too
• Weird story because it shows people are always looking over us but why did the baby have to die too?

The Treasure: 

• More death in these stories
• You would think the old mans friends would want to help him since he was in poverty
• Poor man...the pope should help him 
• I wold have never of gone back to that horrible pope with money 
• That pope got what he deserved in the end!

The Bad Wife:

• Why would you want to be in a marriage so miserable 
• I would always tell the wife that I didnt want what I really wanted 
• A Demon? these stories are creepy odd
• Maybe its a Russian thing
• The bad wife is where she belongs with the demons

The Three Copecks:

• How do you work for free and live that makes no sense 
• Why would he sell the cat when he knows its not his
• Greedy people
• I did not get the point of this story at all

The Miser:

• He should have never asked for the money if he didnt want to pay it back 
• If I was the wife I would have told my husband he was crazy 
• He never got is copeck but still ended up with money 

 The Water Snake:

• The snake sounds like a teenage boy
• If I had that many snakes coming at me I would FREAKKKK
• Why would her mother do that when she said she was happy...

Water Snake

Source:Wikipedia

Friday:

• Need to explain better what mother friday is 
• I bet she will never disobey mother friday again
• I wouldnt have let her off that easy though

Wednesday:

• So now days of weeks are actual people..interesting
• I would have thought the wednesday lady was nice and only came since she called for her 
• There is no point to these stories I am realizing 

The Leshy:

• She went strolling through the forrest, and nothing else was said just that 3 years went by
• There should be some explanation before the story begins
• No explanation what a leshy is 
• Glad the girl was rescued, but where did the hut go?

Dnieper, Volga, and Dvina:

• they said used once instead of once used, not sure if that was a typo or just how they saw it 
• Poor kids
• Not sure what toiling is 
• I feel bad for the brother since his sisters left him
• No point to the story 

Emilian the Fool:

• I wish I had something like the fool did 
• The fool is unlike any other fool I've ever seen
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