Russian folk story: Snow Girl

once upon a time, there was a husband and a wife who had no sons and no grandchildren.

one day they went outside the gate to watch their kids roll snowballs and play snowball.

my husband picked up a snowball and said, "if you and i had a daughter, it would be so white, so round, so good!" my old lady looked at the snowballs and shook her head and said, "what can i do? - i can't find it.

the husband took the snowballs into the house, put them in a pot of ceramics, covered them with a rag and placed them on the window table.

the sun came up, the pots were warm and dry, and the snow began to melt.

the father and the wife suddenly heard something screaming under the rags.

they went to the window to look at a little girl lying in a pot of ceramics, white as snow, round as snowballs, and she said to them, "i'm a snow girl, i'm made of spring snow, warmed by spring sun, covered in gill." don't mention how happy the husband and wife are, they take her out of the jar, she cuts her clothes, sews her clothes, she wraps her husband's hand towel around her arms, and sings: "p", our snow girl! sweet little fatty! you roll with spring snow, warmed by spring sun.

we'll give you food, we'll give you drinks, we'll put on flowers, we'll teach you wisdom! snow girl's growing up and he likes her.

she was so smart, so intelligent, so to speak, only in fairy tales, not in real life.

everything's fine with the old man and the old lady: it's nice in the house and in the yard.

the animals are safe through the winter.

it's time to put the poultry outside.

but as soon as we moved the poultry out of the house to the cattle field, there was a bad thing: the fox came to look for his husband's dog, chu chika, who pretended to be sick and tried so hard for chu chika, he begged with a very sharp little voice: zubek! little white feet, silky tails, let me warm up in the field." juchika, who spent the whole day in the forest with his husband, had no idea that his wife and father had thrown their poultry into the cattle, had mercy on the sick fox and let the fox in.

the fox bit two chickens and dragged them home.

after he learned about it, he beat chu chika up and kicked him out of the hospital.

"whereever you like." he said, "you don't deserve to watch my home!" juchika left her husband's yard crying and crying, except for the wife and the snow girl.

summer is coming, and the berries are ripe, and the snow girl's girlfriend invites her to the woods to pick berries.

my husband and my wife won't even listen to this, they won't let the snow girl go.

the girls made a promise that they would never let the snow girl leave them; she herself asked her husband and wife to let her gopick berries, check the woods.

the husband and wife had to give her a basket and a pie to go.

the girls and the snowgirls went in hand, but as soon as they saw the berries, they forgot everything.

you go east, i go west, just pick the berries, and in the woods, they call each other.

the girls picked a lot of berries but lost the snow girl in the woods.

snow girl calls out to girlfriends -- nobody says yes.

the poor snow girl cried and found her way back, but she couldn't find it.

she climbed into a tree and shouted, "ah, ooh, ooh!" a bear came by, scrambled the dry branch and pushed the bush down.

the bear said, "beautiful girl, what is it? what's going on? i'm a snow girl.

i'm made of spring snow.

my girlfriends begged my husband and wife to let me out, and they agreed; they brought me to the woods, but they left me! "i'll take you home!" "i'm not coming with you, i'm afraid of you -- you're gonna eat me!" the bear's gone.

"what's wrong, beautiful girl? why are you crying?" i'm a snow girl.

i'm made of spring snow.

my girlfriends begged my husband and wife to let me out, and they agreed; they brought me to the woods, but they left me! "i'll take you home!" "i'm not going with you, i'm afraid of you -- you'll eat me!"