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Magic mirror

In a certain kingdom, in a country, there lived a merchant, a widower, he had a son, but a daughter, but the brother ... At one time going to the merchant to travel to foreign lands, to purchase different products, taking with him his son and daughter leaves home, he calls his brother and said to him:

- Consigns to you, my dear brother, my whole house and farm and diligently ask: keep an eye stricter for my daughter, teach her to read and write, and do not let the pampering!

- When the merchant leave with my brother and his daughter and hit the road. A merchant's daughter was already on the age and such indescribable beauty that even though a light izoydi and other like you will not find! Uncle evil thought came to mind, does not give him any day or night of rest, he began to stick to the red girl.

- Or - said - sin with me he will do, or you do not live in the world, and he himself perish and will kill you! ..

I went once a girl in a bath after her uncle - only in the door, she grabbed a basin full of hot water and washed over him from head to foot. Three weeks lain he barely recovered, so much hate gnawing at his heart, and he began to think, how would otsmeyavshis this mockery? Thought and thought took and wrote a letter to his brother: your daughter skinny de affairs, deal, others dragged yards, houses do not spend the night and I was not listening. Merchant received the letter, read it and was very angry, said to his son:

- Here's your sister the house disgrace! Well I do not want her to pardon: you go back in a minute, smite jade into small pieces and this knife fetch her heart. Let the good people do not laugh at our race-tribe!

Son took a sharp knife and went home, went to his home town on the sly, without compromising anyone, and started scouting around: how such and such merchant's daughter lives? With one voice praise her - not praise enough: the quiet, then, and humble, and God knows, and good people to listen to. Find out all that he went to his sister, she was delighted, ran to meet him, hugs, kisses:

- Dear brother! As the Lord has brought you? That our dear father?

- Oh, dear sister, do not hurry to rejoice. No good my coming: I was sent by my father, ordered your white body to chop up into small pieces, so take out your heart on this knife for him to deliver.

Sister cried.

- My God - he says - what a disgrace?

- And that's what! - Answered the brother and my uncle told her about the letter.

- Oh, brother, I am in no way to blame!

- Merchant's son listened to how and what happened, and says:

- Do not cry, little sister! You're telling me that you are not guilty, and even though my father had not commanded to take no excuses and did not want to execute you. You better pull yourself together and go out of his father's house where will aimlessly, God will not leave us!

- The merchant's daughter did not think long, met in the street, said goodbye to her brother and she went, and where she does not know. And her brother killed a watchdog, took heart, pinned at the sharp knife, and drove to his father. Gives him a dog's heart:

- And so - he says - by your parent orders executed sister.

- Well it! Dog dog and death! - Replied the father.

Long or a short wander maiden on white light finally came into frequent, dense forest: high trees barely see the sky. She began to walk in this forest and accidentally left on a broad meadow, and on this meadow - white stone palace, around the palace and iron bars.

- Let me - thinks a girl - I'll come to the palace, not all bad people, maybe not skinny!

- Enter it in the House - in the wards do not have a human soul, was about to turn back - suddenly rode into the yard two silnomoguchie hero, entered the palace, saw the girl and say:

- Hello, beautiful!

- Hello, honest Knights!

- Here, my friend, - said one athlete to another - we grieve with you that we have no one to host, and God sent us sister.

Heroes left the merchant's daughter to live at home, named Rodney sister, gave her the keys and took over all the house mistress, then he took out the sharp sword, rested at each other in the chest and put a bargain:

- If any of us dare to encroach on his sister, then chop it sparing etoyu samoyu saber.

Here lives maiden two heroes, and her father bought overseas goods, returned home and soon afterwards married another wife. There was this indescribable beauty and the merchant's wife was at his magic mirror, look in the mirror - once you find out where that is done. One day heroes gathered to hunt and punish his sister:

- Mind you, before we came to one does not let him!

- Said goodbye to her and left. At this time the merchant's wife looked in the mirror, admiring her beauty and says:

- No. I was in the light beautiful!

- A mirror in response:

- You're good - no doubt! And there you have a step-daughter, lives with two heroes in the dense forest - the more beautiful!

Do not like these words stepmother, immediately called to her nasty old woman.

- At - he says - you ring, go into the dense forest, in the forest there is a white stone palace, the palace lived my stepdaughter, her bow and give them a ring - say, my friend sent a souvenir!

- The old woman took the ring and went to where she said, came to the white-stone palace, saw her maiden, ran out to meet - and wanted, then try your news with the native side.

- Hi, Grandma! As the Lord has brought you? Are all alive and well?

- Live, bread chew! That's my friend asked me about your health visit but sent a gift ring, on, beautiful!

- The girl so happy, so happy that you can not tell, brought an old woman in the room, to treat all kinds of drinks and snacks but punished his siblings crouch. After an hour the old woman trudged back, and the girl began to admire the ring and you dare to put it on her finger, put on - and at the moment Well fell dead.

Come two knights are in the House - does not meet my sister, what is it? Looked into her bedroom, and she is dead, not a word rumor. Vzgorevalis heroes: all that was beautiful, then unexpectedly took the death!

- It is necessary - they say - to remove her new clothes but in coffin.

Began to clean up, and spotted one on the hand of the fair maiden ring:

- Is it, and bury it with the ring? Give better take off, the memory will leave.

Only took a ring - and maiden immediately opened his eyes, sighed, and came to life.

- What happened to you, sister? Anyone who did not come to you? - Ask the heroes.

- Go to his native place and the old familiar ring brought.

- Oh, what are you naughty! After all, we punish you without reason, to anyone without our house is not allowed. Look, next time that it is not!

After some time, the merchant's wife looked in his mirror and found out that her step-daughter is still alive and beautiful, she called the old woman gives her a ribbon and says:

- Go to the white-stone palace, home to my stepdaughter, and give her the fairing, say, my friend sent!

- Again, the old woman came to the fair maiden, she talked a lot with three boxes of different varieties and gave the ribbon. Happy girl, tied a ribbon around his neck - and at the same moment fell on the bed dead. Heroes come from hunting, look - my sister is dead, was removed from her new clothes and just took off the ribbon - she immediately opened her eyes, sighed, and came to life.

- What is it, sister? Ali was once an old woman?

- Yes, - said - the old woman came to the native side, I brought ribbon.

- Oh, what are you? After all, we're asking you, There is no primay us!

- Excuse me, dear brothers! Could not resist, I wanted to hear news from home.

A few more days - the merchant's wife looked in the mirror: her stepdaughter alive again. Called to the old woman.

- At - he says - a hair! Go to the step-child, be sure to kill it!

- Seizing the old time when heroes go to hunt, came to the white-stone palace, saw her through the window maiden, could not restrain herself, ran to meet her:

- Hi, Grandma! What is your God has mercy?

- As long as alive, darling! Here are dragging around the world and here you wandered visit.

Led her maiden room, regaled with all sorts of snacks and drinks, ask about family and sentenced to bow to his brother.

- Well, - said the old woman, - I will bow down. But you, my dear, tea and no one in my head to look for? Let me look for.

- Look, Grandma!

- She sought a red head girl and wove its magic braid hair, how soon wove this hair, the girl at that moment became dead. Evil old woman smiled and walked away as quickly as possible, so that no one has found it, did not see.

Heroes come, entering the room - the sister is dead, long they looked closely scrutinized, whether on it too much then? No, can not see anything! Here they made the crystal coffin - such a wonderful, that neither wants, nor vzgadat, only tale to tell, a merchant's daughter, dressed in a bright dress like a bride to the altar, and put in a crystal coffin, he put the coffin in the middle of a big house, and above it staged canopy of red velvet with diamond tassels with gold fringe, and hung on poles twelve twelve crystal lamps. After the heroes burst into bitter tears; seize their great anguish.

- What - say - we live in this world? Come on, decide yourself!

- Hug, said goodbye to each other out, went on a high balcony, held hands, and fell down, hit by sharp rocks and ended his life.

Many, many years have passed. One happened to be the prince in hunting, he stopped in a dense forest, disbanded their dogs in different directions, separated from hunters and went alone to stalled path. Riding-riding, and that's before him glade to glade white stone palace. The prince dismounted, and went up the stairs and began to inspect the rooms, all hats rich, luxurious, and master's hand on anything not seen all long since abandoned, it all started! In the same room is a crystal coffin, and the coffin lying dead girl indescribable beauty: her cheeks flushed, smile on his lips, exactly live asleep.

Prince came, looked at the girl, and stayed on the ground, as if an invisible force of his hold. He stands in the morning until late at night, can not take his eyes, my heart alarm: confined him girlish beauty - wonderful, unseen, in the whole world what the other could not be found! A hunter looking for him for a long time, so they scoured the forest, and blew the trumpets, and the voice was served - the prince is at the crystal coffin, hears nothing. The sun set, the darkness thickened, and only then he came to his senses - he kissed a girl dead and drove back.

- Oh, my lord, where were you? - Ask the hunters.

- Chasing a beast, yes a bit to get lost.

The next day at dawn - the prince is going to hunt too, rode into the forest, separated from hunters and by the same footpath came to the white-stone palace. Again the day stood at a crystal coffin, keeping his eye from a dead beauty, just came back home late at night. On the third day, the fourth all the same, and so a week has passed.

- What is our prince podeyalos? - Say hunters. - Stanemte, boys, follow him, to notice, to thin what had happened.

Here the prince went hunting dogs dismissed the forest, separated from his suite and pointed the way to the white-stone palace, the hunters immediately after it, come to a clearing, includes the palace - where the House crystal coffin, the coffin is a dead girl, a girl in front of the prince worth it.

- Well, Your Highness, that's why you have a week in the forest strayed! Now we are not here to uytit evening.

Surrounded the circle crystal coffin, looking at a girl, admiring her beauty, and stood in the same place in the morning to late evening. When the dark at all, the prince turned to the hunters:

- Has served me, my friends, great service, Take a coffin with a dead girl brought and put in my bedroom, yes tihomolkom secretly do, so no one did not know about that, do not visit. Reward you in every way, perhaps a gold penalty, as no one will complain.

- Your will bestow, and we, the prince, and so happy to serve you! - Said the hunter, raised the crystal coffin, carried into the yard, made a horse and took him to the palace, brought and placed at the Prince's bedroom.

Since that day the prince stopped to think about hunting, sitting there at home, anywhere from your room does not come out - all on a girl admires.

- What happened to our son? - Think the queen. - That's too much time, and he sits at home, out of his room and does not go to him no one let go. Sadness, depression, or something, attacked, Ali ailment which pretended? Let me go and see him.

Includes queen to his bedroom and sees crystal coffin. Like what? Questioned-Explored and immediately gave orders to bury the other girl, as follows the custom, in the damp earth mother.

Cried the prince, went into the garden, plucked the pretty flowers, and was brought dead to comb her hair so beautiful light brown color head cleaning. Suddenly fell from her magical hair braids - Beauty opened his eyes, sighed, got up from a crystal coffin and said:

- Oh, how I long to sleep!

- The prince was overjoyed, and took her by the hand and led him to his father and mother.

- I - said - God gave her! I can not live without a single minute. Excuse me, my dear sir, and you, my dear mother, who allowed to marry.

- Marry, my son! Do not go against God, and so beautiful in the whole world look!

- I Kings for anything stops happens: in the day and the honest Pirko for Noces.

Prince married a merchant's daughter, lives with her - not overjoyed. It took how many time - occurred to her to go to his side, his father and brother to visit, the prince would not mind, began to ask his father.

- Well, - said the king - go, my dear children! You, Prince, go by land to the detour, look around this case all of our land and the orders to know, and let your wife on a ship sailing directly.

Here are manufactured ship for the trip, along sailors assigned initial general; princess sat on the boat and went to sea, and the prince went by land.

Initial general vidyuchi beautiful princess, jealous of her beauty and began to sweet-talk her, why be afraid to think - she is now in my hands, that I want - and then do it!

- Love me - he says the princess - if not love - throw into the sea!

- The princess turned away, not give him the answer, just filled with tears. Overheard the general's speech, one sailor, came to the princess at night and began to speak:

- Do not cry, my dear princess! You get dressed in my clothes, and I'll put yours, you go on deck, and I'll stay in a cabin. Let General throw me into the sea - I'm not afraid of, maybe manage, doplyvu to the dock, Good Earth is now close!

- They have changed clothes, princess went on deck, and the sailor went on her bed. At night, the cabin was the initial general sailor grabbed and tossed into the sea. Sailor set off to swim in the morning and made it to shore. The ship arrived at the dock, the sailors began to descend to the ground and went princess rushed to the market, bought a cookery shalt, along scullion and hire your own father in the kitchen to serve.

A little later comes to the merchant prince.

- Hi, - said - Father! Take a minute-in-law, because I'm married to your daughter. But where is she? Al has not happened?

- And here the initial general the report is:

- And so, Your Highness! Misfortune happened: Princess was on the deck, a storm arose, started rolling, her head was spinning - and did not have time to blink, as the princess fell into the sea and drowned!

- Prince tightly-cry, why, from the bottom of the sea can not be undone, it is clear this is the fate assigned her! POGOST prince from his father in law for some time and told his entourage prepare to leave, goodbye merchant asked a great feast, came to him and the merchants, and nobles, and all kin: were there and the brother of him, and the evil old woman, and the initial general.

Drinking, eating, slacking, one of the guests and said:

- Look, gentlemen, honest! That all drink so drink - from the good will not be, let's better say unto tale.

- Okay, okay! - Shouted from all sides. - Who will start?

- He does not know how the other is not much, and the third wine lost its memory. What to do? Merchant's clerk said there:

- We have a new cook in the kitchen, a lot of other people's lands traveled, seen all sorts of divas and a master tale affects - that just try!

- The Merchant of Food Boy called.

- To entertain - he says - my guests!

- Responsible his cook-princess:

- What to tell you something: Al byvalschinu story?

- Affects byvalschinu!

- Perhaps you can and byvalschinu only with persuasion: who would kill me, that chumichkoy forehead.

All agreed to this. And the princess began to tell everything that happened to her the most.

- Either way - he says - was the daughter of a merchant, the merchant went overseas and had his own brother to look for a girl, Uncle eye on her beauty and gives her a moment Spock ...

- Uncle hears that it is about him, and said:

- This, gentlemen, is not true!

- And do you think is not true? Chumichka here you are in the forehead!

- When it came to her stepmother, her magic mirror interrogated, and to the evil old woman, as she said to the heroes in the white stone palace came - and the old woman and her stepmother in one voice cried out,

- That's what nonsense! This can not be.

Princess hit them on the head chumichkoyu and began telling how she was lying in a crystal coffin, he found her prince, animated, and married her, and as she went to visit her father.

General realized that the point is not okay, and asks the prince:

- Let me go home, something a headache!

- Nothing, just sit a little!

- Became the Princess of general talk, well, he could not stand it.

- All this, - he says - not true!

- Princess chumichkoyu his forehead so Cookery off her dress and opened the prince: