The tale of the Fox and the Wolf is a funny story about a cunning, dexterous fox and a stupid, gullible wolf. A fairy tale in which the wolf should be pitied will arouse the interest of children. Be sure to read the story online and discuss it with your child.
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Who is the author of the story
This fairy tale about animals belongs to oral folk art.
The cunning Chanterelle saw an old man who was returning from the river with a good catch. The cheat figured out how to eat a fish. The fox pretended to be dead. And the grandfather was delighted, he thinks: I will bring the fish to the woman, and even the collar on the fur coat. He put the find in the sleigh and is happy to go home. The chanterelle slowly threw the fish onto the road, jumped out of the sleigh, collected the catch in a pile, sits, regales itself on the fish. The curious and hungry Wolf at the gossip began to ask where the fish came from. The Chanterelle taught the Wolf how to catch fish in the hole with his tail. The Wolf believed the gossip, went to the hole, did as the godfather advised. The tail is frozen - the Wolf will not budge. The women saw the Seromancer, beat him with a yoke, until the Wolf ran away, leaving his tail in the hole. And the chanterelle in the village decided to profit and landed her head in the dough. Runs, and the dough flows over the head. She met a beaten Wolf and let's lament and complain: they beat her so that her brains flowed. The Good Wolf took pity on the cheat, put him on his back and took him to the forest, not even suspecting that the treacherous Fox had deceived him twice. You can read the story online on our website.
Analysis of the fairy tale Fox and the Wolf
There are no positive characters in the fairy tale. Grandfather personifies simplicity and imprudence, the Wolf - stupidity and narrow-mindedness. The resourcefulness and ingenuity of the Fox is striking, but does not make her a positive character. The image of the Fox is a warning to simple-minded and gullible people. The meaning of the fairy tale The Wolf and the Fox is that you need to learn to distinguish truth from lies. One should be choosy in friends, one cannot trust the "sweet" speeches of people, especially strangers.
Moral of the Fox and the Wolf
Before trusting other people, you need to analyze the situation, weigh what you heard and saw. The moral of the Fox and the Wolf tale is instructive. Modern society full of "chanterelles" who are not averse to profiting at someone else's expense and "hunt" for gullible and stupid people everywhere.
Proverbs, sayings and expressions of a fairy tale
- Trust but verify.
- The popularity of the tale is evidenced by expressions that have become winged - “The beaten unbeaten one is lucky” and “Cold, freeze, wolf tail!”.
Grandfather and grandmother lived. The grandfather says to the grandmother: - You, the woman, bake pies, and I will harness the sleigh, I will go for fish.
Grandfather caught a full cart of fish. He goes home and sees: the fox is curled up, lying on the road.
Grandfather got down from the cart, approached, but the fox did not stir, it lay as if dead. - This is a great find! There will be a collar for my old woman's fur coat.
Grandfather took the fox and put it on the cart, and he went ahead. And the fox seized the time and began to slowly throw out of the cart all the fish and the fish, all the fish and the fish.
She threw out all the fish and left on the sly. Grandfather came home and calls a woman: - Well, old woman, a noble collar brought you a fur coat!
A woman came up to the cart: there was neither a collar nor a fish on the cart. And she began to scold the old man: - Oh, you old horseradish, so-and-so, still took it into his head to deceive me!
Then the grandfather realized that the fox was not dead. Grieved, grieved, but what are you going to do! And the fox, meanwhile, gathered all the fish in a pile on the road, sat down and eats. A wolf comes to her: - Hello, gossip, bread and salt ... - I eat mine, and you stay away. - Give me the fish. - Catch yourself, and eat. - Yes, I can not.
- Eka! After all, I caught it. You, kumanek, go to the river, dip your tail into the hole, sit and say: “Catch, fish, both small and large, catch, fish, both small and large!” So the fish will grab you by the tail. The longer you sit, the more you learn. The wolf went to the river, lowered his tail into the hole, sits and says: - Catch, fish, both small and large, Catch, fish, both small and large! And the fox walks near the wolf and says: - Clear, clear the stars in the sky, Freeze, freeze, wolf tail! The wolf asks the fox: - What are you talking about, godfather? - And I'm helping you, chasing a fish on your tail. And she again: - Clarify, clarify the stars in the sky,
Freeze, freeze, wolf tail! The wolf sat all night at the hole. His tail was frozen. In the morning I wanted to get up - it was not there. He thinks: “Eka, how many fish have rolled in - and you can’t pull them out!” At this time, a woman comes with buckets for water. I saw a wolf and shouted: - Wolf, wolf! Beat him!
The wolf - back and forth, can not pull out the tail. Baba threw the buckets and let's beat him with a yoke. Beat, beat, the wolf was torn, torn, tore off his tail and took to his heels. “Well, he thinks, already (*) I will repay you, godfather!”
And the fox climbed into the hut where this woman lived, ate from the kneading dough, smeared her head with dough, ran out onto the road, fell and lies - groaning. Wolf towards her:
- So this is how you teach, godfather, to fish! Look, they beat me up all over ... The fox says to him:
- Oh, kumanek! You don’t have a tail, but your head is intact, and they broke my head: look - the brain came out, I dragged myself by force.
“And that’s true,” the wolf tells her. - Where do you go, godfather, sit on me, I'll take you.
The fox sat on the back of the wolf. He took her. Here is a fox riding a wolf and slowly singing: - The beaten unbeaten is lucky, The beaten unbeaten is lucky! - What are you talking about, godfather? .. - I, kumanek, am talking about your pain. And she herself again: - The beaten unbeaten is lucky, The beaten unbeaten is lucky!
(*) Already - soon, on the same day.
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Grandfather and grandmother lived. Grandpa says to grandma:
You, woman, bake pies, and I will harness the sleigh and go for fish.
He caught fish and is carrying a whole cart home. Here he goes and sees: the fox curled up and lies on the road. Grandfather got down from the cart, went up to the fox, but she didn’t stir, she lay there as if dead.
Here will be a present for his wife, - said the grandfather, took the fox and put it on the cart, and he went ahead.
And the little fox seized the time and began to throw out of the cart all the fish and the fish, all the fish and the fish. She threw out all the fish and left.
Well, old woman, - says the grandfather, - what kind of collar did I bring you for a fur coat!
There, on the cart, - and the fish and the collar.
The woman came up to the cart: no collar, no fish - and began to scold her husband:
Oh you! Such and such! You still dare to cheat!
Then the grandfather realized that the fox was not dead. I grieved, I grieved, but there was nothing to do.
And the chanterelle gathered all the scattered fish in a pile, sat down on the road and eats for herself. A gray wolf comes to her:
Hello sister!
Hello brother!
Give me fish!
Catch yourself and eat.
I can not.
Eka, because I caught it! You, brother, go to the river, dip your tail into the hole, sit and say: “Catch, fish, both small and large! Catch, fish, both small and large! The fish will grab onto your tail. Yes, look, sit a little longer, otherwise you won’t catch it.
The wolf went to the river, lowered his tail into the hole and says:
- Catch, fish, both small and large!
Following him, the fox appeared: he walks around the wolf and laments:
- Clear, clear the stars in the sky!
What are you, fox-sister, saying?
Then I help you.
And the rogue herself constantly repeats:
- Freeze, freeze, wolf tail!
For a long, long time the wolf sat at the hole, did not leave the place all night, his tail froze; tried to get up; it wasn't there!
“Eka, how many fish have fallen - and you won’t pull it out!” he thinks.
He looks, and the women go for water and shout, seeing the gray:
Wolf, wolf! Beat him! Beat him!
They ran and began to beat the wolf - some with a yoke, some with a bucket, some with anything. The wolf jumped, jumped, tore off his tail and started running without looking back.
“It’s good,” he thinks, “I’ll repay you, sister!”
In the meantime, while the wolf was puffing its sides, the fox-sister wanted to try if something else could be pulled off. She climbed into one of the huts, where the women baked pancakes, but hit her head in a tub of dough, got smeared and ran. And the wolf to meet her:
Is that how you study? I've been thrashed all over!
Oh, wolf-brother! - says the fox-sister. - At least you bled, but I have a brain, they nailed me more painfully than yours: I trudge by force.
And that's true, - says the wolf, - where are you going, sister, sit on me, I'll take you.
The fox sat on his back, and he hung her.
Here the fox-sister sits, and slowly says:
The beaten unbeaten is lucky,
The beaten unbeaten is lucky!
What are you talking about, sister?
I, brother, say: "The beaten one is lucky."
Yes sister, yes!
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"The Fox and the Wolf" - Russian folk tale about a cunning fox who managed to deceive an old grandfather and even a gray wolf. The naughty woman ate all the fish that her grandfather had caught, and advised the wolf to put his tail into the hole and wait until the fish caught itself. The wolf sat near the water for a long time, froze all over, people noticed him and beat him. And the cheat at the same time was smeared all over in the dough, while she was looking for somewhere else to pull off something and barely escaped, finally, deceiving the wolf again. The tale "The Fox and the Wolf" is known for its catchphrases: "Cold, freeze, wolf tail!" and "The beaten unbeaten is lucky."
OLD MAN AND THE FOX
A. Kolesov, a resident of the village of Bomnak in the Zeya district of the Amur region, told in 1976. Recorded by the teacher Evenki language LGPI named after A. I. Herzen folklorist N. Bulatova. Literary processing by V. Sangi.
For a long time, an old man and an old woman lived on earth. They had a lot of deer - so many that when the deer stood in a herd, they resembled a birch grove.
When the reindeer herder was in power, he still managed with deer, grazed them. But then old age came, and it became difficult for the reindeer herder to graze the reindeer.
One day the deer left their master. He is looking for a herd near his home and does not find it.
How to be? Where to find deer? - the old man asks the old woman.
How to be ... We must look, - says the old woman.
The old man went into the forest. He is looking for deer or pretends to be looking for, because he has little strength left.
And then a fox runs up to the old man.
In my blueberry meadow, few berries have been born, - the fox says to the old man. - And your meadow is good!
Why is she good? the old man asks.
There is a good dove on your blueberry. Let me feed in your meadow.
The old man thought and said:
My deer are missing. We must find them.
Uh, I'll help you, I'll look for myself. And you do not work, rest, - says the fox. - I will find your deer and I will graze them. Popas-popas and go down to the blueberry meadow, eat berries. Let's eat the berries and feed your reindeer again. This is how we will live.
The old man agreed. And since then the fox has become a shepherd for the old man.
The fox finds traces of deer by smell, and the herd itself follows the trail. Find a herd, catch a deer, eat it.
That's how they live. The fox catches old deer and eats them.
Time passed, and the old man asks the fox:
Fox, how are my deer?
Lisa answers:
Grandpa, your reindeer are good. Improved a lot.
Did you say "good"? asked the old man.
Yes, grandpa, good! - answers the fox.
Well, all right, - says the old man. - Only you, fox, take a good look at my deer. And come to me more often, tell me.
I will do so, said the fox:
The fox ran to the deer. Caught one and ate it. Then she caught another and ate it.
After some time, the fox comes running to the old man. And the old man asks:
Fox, fox, how are my deer?
Oh, grandfather, your reindeer are very good. Bold steel, beautiful.
The old man says:
Good. Let them get fat.
This is how they live. The summer has passed. The winter has passed. More time has passed. The old man asks again:
Fox, how are my deer?
Oh-oh! Very fed up! Quite fat.
The old man then says:
We must look at them, gather a herd.
The fox ran off to gather deer. She was gone for a long time. But it turned out that she had already eaten the last deer from the old man's herd.
The fox came to the old man so full. And says:
Grandfather, she didn’t find our deer, they left somewhere. I walked around our blueberry clearing, there are no deer anywhere. Let's go eat together.
The old man told the fox to go behind, he himself went in front. We reached a blueberry meadow, and the meadow is covered with bones. The old man understood: the fox had deceived him. Summer and winter, she only did what she ate old deer. Finished off the whole herd.
You are a liar! You are a robber thief! shouted the old man at the fox.
The fox ran back to the old man's house. The old man chases after her, but cannot catch up. But it looked like a home. The old man shouts to the old woman:
Catch the fox! She ate our deer!
The old woman did not hear the old man's words. And the fox is close. She says to the old woman:
The old man tells me to tie an ornament to my tail - for my good work.
What decoration? - asks the old woman.
Tie the knife. The knife will be an ornament, - says the fox, as if conveying the old man's words.
The old woman tied a knife to the fox's tail. The fox moved on.
An old man came running and asked:
Why didn't you catch the fox?
I tied a knife to the tail of the fox,” said the old woman.
Why tied? The old man doesn't understand.
You were the one who screamed at me to do it. The fox conveyed your words to me exactly.
The old man collapsed on the floor...
And the fox ran to the clearing and there gnaws at the bones of deer.
Time passed, the fox began to starve. He thinks: where to find food - the meat is over, the dove too. And he sees - there is a wolf.
wolf says:
Hey fox, hello!
Hey brother, hello! How did you overwinter?
I almost died of hunger, - the wolf answers.
Then he noticed - something sparkles on the tail of the fox. Asked:
What's on your tail?
I rode, rode on my tail - this decoration turned out.
A good decoration, - the wolf envied. - I also have a tail, like yours.
Yes, I have a good decoration, - the fox boasted.
And where did you ride? - the wolf is curious.
Ice found, very slippery. I rode on this ice, - the fox answers.
wolf says:
Well, fox! And I will ride!
The fox led the wolf to the ice. The wolf ran away, sat on his back, swept. And the ice is uneven. Wolf asks:
Fox, why does my back seat burn?
Show me, said the fox.
The wolf turned his back, shows. And the fox says:
Hey, you've kicked your ass! After all, you will die - a splinter has entered deep into you.
Oh, pull out the splinter, - the wolf almost cries.
Guvi, guvi, - the fox sings and plunges a knife into the wolf.
Oh, why does it burn even more? - asks the wolf.
'Cause I'm getting to a splinter. I'll pull it out soon, the pain will subside.
The fox pulled out the intestines from the wolf, ate it. Then she finished off the wolf itself.
So the cunning fox deceived the man - the old reindeer breeder and his main enemy - the wolf.
When the fish appeared in the spring, the old man decided to send the deer to the mountains. The old man says to his old woman:
- Old woman, will you go fishing if I go with the deer?
Wife says:
- I can't go fishing. I'm weak, I can't fish.
While the old man was thinking, a fox came. The fox asks: - Grandfather, what are you thinking about?
- Chanterelle, I'm thinking of sending my deer to the mountains.
Fox says:
- Grandfather, you teach me to pasture, then I will take your deer to the mountains.
The old man says:
- You take the deer up the river Eche. Bring back in the fall. In the summer, kill our calves for your meat, eat them.
Fox says:
- Grandpa, don't worry. Why should I eat calves? I will live as Europeans.
Waving its tail, the fox left, saying, "Goodbye." The old man and the old woman remained.
When autumn came, the fox came. The old man was delighted and asked:
- Chanterelle, well, how are you grazing? Fox says:
- Well, I pass, our deer have become fat. The old man was delighted, ran to the deer, Approaching
close to them, he whistled. All deer are lying down. He whistled again, they are still lying. Not a single deer moves. Coming close to one deer, he whistled again. He kicked one deer. His deer rolled head over heels like a shaggy ball, turned over. Pulled a deer. Turns out it's full of moss. He examined all the deer: all the deer are stuffed with moss.
The old man ran home. Coming close to the house, he shouted:
- Old woman, hold the fox by the tail! The old woman says to the fox:
- Chanterelle, what is grandfather shouting? Fox says:
- Old woman, feed the fox with milk for making our deer fat.
The old man shouts again:
- Old woman, hold the fox by the tail, the fox killed all our deer!
The old woman heard. Caught the fox by the root of the tail.
Fox says:
- Grandma, don't keep it like that, otherwise the sun will hide.
The old woman took her hand away, holding the end of her tail. The fox rushed forward strongly. The old woman tore off the end of the tail, released the fox.
The old man came
- Old woman, where is the fox?
- No fox, ran away.
The old man and the old woman began to argue. They were left without food.
Then the old man says to his wife:
- Old woman, let's go to the fishing place.
They went. Suddenly - towards them a fox.
- Grandpa, where are you going?
- Get out! Don't lie, you killed all my deer.
- Grandfather, you were mistaken, it was a red fox, and I am silver-brown.
So that the old man would not recognize her, the fox went to the burned area and soiled her fur. The old man believed. The fox began to help him again.
- Grandpa, I know a fishing spot, let's go there. The fox drags a sled on a belt. An old man and an old woman are following the sled behind.
Suddenly the fox cried out:
- Oh oh oh! The old man says:
- Foxy, what's wrong with you?
- Grandpa, I broke my leg.
The old man put the fox on his sled. The fox lay down.
We arrived at a big river. The old man asks:
- This river is called "Initial".
Just at this time, the fox began to steal fat, which was carried by the old people on a sled.
Let's move on. They came back to another river. The old man asks again:
- What is the name of this river? Fox says:
- This river is called "Half".
She had already eaten half of the fat by this time. Again we went further. We came back to another river.
The old man asks:
- Chanterelle, what is the name of this river? Fox says:
- This river is called "Ultimate". She finished eating fat.
The old man looked at the sled. The fox, it turns out, is not. They examined the sled - there was nothing, all their fat was finished off by a fox. G
Here is the end.