I have to agree with Mr. Cossack - what the heck kind of question is that? I'm pretty sure I wouldn't want to stay the night at someone's place who said that to me.
Clever guy.
The Headless Princess
Hmm. I'm surprised that the king believed the priest's son. Clearly he wasn't familiar with the son because he didn't even know he existed, but he believed him about the very strange events that had occurred. Maybe the king knew there was something strange about his daughter - even that she was a witch, like the old woman did?
I really wish the story would have described the horrors that the priest's son had to witness. I think it would have added another dimension to this story and really make the reader feel scared and appreciate the son's task a lot more.
The Warlock
Uh oh. There are a lot of instructions on what not to do, so that probably means that one of the three (probably the third and youngest one) will disobey the orders.
WHAT. Why would they send the second daughter after the first one had been strangled to death????
The Fox Physician
Must be one fairly strong sack!
Well, I mean he probably should have known that his teeth wouldn't be the most reliable way of carrying such a heavy sack...
Oof! That's sad...
The Fiddler in Hell
Three again. What's the obsession with this number?
Haha at the the fiddler jinxing himself..
Weird... another story where a lot of random events not really related to the main narrative happen at the end. Like why did the child need to be born and then abandoned? So strange.
The Two Friends
"It was not to make any difference whether he was alive or dead." - pretty obvious foreshadowing and such an unrealistic thing to be discussed between two friends.
Hmm... sounds kind of like a Futurama scenario, but without the futuristic world. I could see a story where this happens, but instead there is much more description of the world after the man returns to it. That could be fun to write.
The Shroud
I like that this story uses the word "lazybones." I'm not sure why, but I always thought that was a more modern word that wouldn't be used for a story like this one, so it took me off guard!
Well, I guess it was deserved...
This sounds a lot like some sort of horror story that could be modernized to be some teenage girl's sleepover or something, maybe with rich, inattentive parents to add some resentment to the mood.
The Coffin-Lid
Lots of grave/dead/coffin stories in this unit.
Man, the townspeople in these stories are so strange. First they want to kill the man who saved their sons, then they just believe his story right away after calling him a trickster?
The Two Corpses
The Dog and the Corpse
And the dog should be upset! The master easily could have helped him fend off the corpse, but his selfishness shined through.
Oh - that ending.
The Soldier and the Vampire
What a strange form of regeneration this warlock has...
Well, this time the man who cured the unjust death wasn't questioned at all. Was it due to him being a soldier?
A lead coffin
Bibliography: Russian Fairy Tales by W.R.S. Ralton. Source.
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