Baba Yaga: A Russian Folktake - Read Aloud

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Zusammenfassung

TLDRThis Russian folk tale follows the journey of Marina, a kind-hearted girl with an ugly horn on her forehead, raised by a cruel stepmother after her father's disappearance. After being mistreated, she is sent to the witch Baba Yaga for help. With cleverness and the help of a friendly frog, Marina survives Baba Yaga's schemes and is freed from her horn. Her stepmother and stepsister Marousa, envious of her beauty, seek to be like her but are punished for their wickedness. Ultimately, Marina returns home to her father, while Marousa is left with the horn she wished away from Marina.

Mitbringsel

  • 👩‍🌾 Marina is a kind girl with an ugly horn on her forehead.
  • 🔪 Marina's stepmother mistreats her after her father's disappearance.
  • 🦗 A frog warns Marina about Baba Yaga, the wicked witch.
  • 🌲 Marina cleverly fulfills Baba Yaga's tasks to escape her clutches.
  • 👩‍👧 Marousa envies Marina and seeks to be just like her.
  • 😱 Baba Yaga sticks the horn on Marousa after she seeks help.
  • 🏡 Marina's father returns home and sees her beauty restored.
  • 🚫 The stepmother and Marousa are driven away from the merchant's house.

Zeitleiste

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    In a wealthy merchant's home, his kindhearted daughter Marina struggles against her evil stepmother and stepsister Marousa. After the merchant's long absence, Marina is mistreated, forced into servitude, and stripped of her belongings, except for a horn on her forehead. The stepmother schemes to rid the household of Marina, sending her to Baba Yaga, a fearsome witch, for a needle and thread under the guise of helping. Despite the fear, Marina ventures into the forest, where she meets a kind frog who gives her valuable advice for dealing with Baba Yaga.

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    When Marina arrives at Baba Yaga's hut, she successfully completes tasks for the witch while secretly plotting her escape. By using clever gifts given to her by the animals she helps, Marina manages to elude Baba Yaga and returns home, horn-free and radiant. Her father, upon returning from his travels, is overjoyed to find her transformed. In a twist, Marousa attempts to obtain similar beauty and is punished by receiving the horn, showcasing the story's theme of justice and the consequences of envy.

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Video-Fragen und Antworten

  • Who are the main characters in the story?

    The main characters are Marina, her stepmother, and stepsister Marousa, and Baba Yaga, the witch.

  • What does Marina have on her forehead?

    Marina has a great ugly horn growing out of the middle of her forehead.

  • What did Marina's stepmother force her to do?

    Marina's stepmother forced her to work like a slave and took away her pretty dresses.

  • Who helps Marina when she goes to Baba Yaga?

    A tiny green frog advises Marina on how to deal with Baba Yaga.

  • What happens to Marousa at the end of the story?

    Marousa is punished by Baba Yaga, who sticks the horn onto her forehead as well.

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Untertitel
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    yaga a russian folk tale
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    once upon a time a wealthy merchant
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    lived in a fine house on the edge of a
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    deep dark force
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    his first wife had died years before
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    leaving him an only daughter
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    she was kind good-hearted girl named
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    marina who would have been exceptionally
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    beautiful as well were not for a great
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    ugly horn growing out of the middle of
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    her forehead
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    in time the merchant married again his
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    second wife a proud haughty woman had a
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    daughter of her own name marousa
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    whom she thought was the loveliest child
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    on earth
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    through in truth she was spiteful and
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    lazy
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    nonetheless the merchant cherished her
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    as his own the two girls marina and
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    marusa grew up together as sisters
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    one day the merchant set out on a
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    journey to foreign lands he promised to
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    return in a year's time but a year went
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    by without any word from him
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    then another and another
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    by then his second wife marina's
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    stepmother gave him up for dead
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    your father is gone never to return the
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    stepmother told marina we are poor now
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    you must learn to do without she took
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    away marina's pretty dresses and gave
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    her a ragged smock in their place
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    instead of her warm bed marina now slept
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    on the floor between the dog and the cat
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    from early in the morning until late at
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    night she worked like a slave
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    all she ever heard was marina sweep the
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    floor and marina scored the pots and
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    marina why are you so slow
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    but poor as they were her stepmother and
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    stepsister never dirtied their hands
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    with work of any kind
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    they were silken gowns they slept on
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    feather beds they ate white bread and
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    cheese stale crusts of moldy black bread
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    soaked in water were all marina ever got
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    to eat
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    one afternoon marina's lazy step sister
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    marusa sat up in bed
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    as she yawned and stretched she glanced
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    out the window into the yard and saw
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    marina chopping wood for the stove
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    marusa burst into tears her mother
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    rushed to her bedside
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    marisa my beauty why are you weeping
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    oh mother it's all marina's fault that
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    frightful horn it distresses me so i
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    cannot bear to look at it
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    you're quite right my darling a delicate
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    child such as you should not have to see
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    such things
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    dry your eyes precious go back to sleep
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    mother will fix everything i promise
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    that by tomorrow marina and her hideous
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    horn will be gone
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    the stepmother went out into the yard
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    marina dear put down that axe you have
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    worked hard enough today
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    marina looked up in surprise her
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    stepmother had never said that to her
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    before
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    dear child the stepmother continued your
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    smock is so ragged and dirty fetch me a
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    needle and thread i will sew
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    another one for you
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    this surprised marina even more for
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    except for slaps and blows her
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    stepmother had not given her one single
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    thing since her father went away
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    dear stepmother marina replied unable to
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    believe her ears
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    there is neither needle nor thread in
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    the house but i can fetch them from our
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    neighbor if you like
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    oh that will take too long too long
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    marina dear her stepmother said
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    i have a better idea go visit auntie in
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    the forest ask her to lend us what we
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    need
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    now poor marina shook with fear for
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    auntie in the forest was none other than
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    baba yaga the witch
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    even so she dared not disobey
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    she did as her stepmother ordered and
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    startled down the pet forest path
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    the twisting path wand through dark
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    gloomy trees briars and branches bared
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    the way
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    marina walked for a long long time
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    at last foot sore and weary she stopped
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    to rest beside a forest spring
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    hello pretty girl
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    where are you going a tiny green frog
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    called to her from the middle of the
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    spring
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    i am going to visit auntie in the forest
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    to borrow a needle and threat
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    marina answered
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    poor girl poor girl turned back turned
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    back the frog warned your auntie is a
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    wicked witch she will eat you up
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    i must do what i must do marina replied
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    sadly
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    in that case the said the frog i will
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    give you some advice when you arrive at
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    your auntie's house a birch tree
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    will whistle and moan
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    tie a ribbon around its trunk
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    the gate will creak
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    pour some oil on its hinges
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    the dog will bark give him some meat
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    the cat will spit and hiss
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    give her a saucer of milk
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    when your auntie asks what you want tell
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    her your heart's desire have no fear if
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    you remember to do these things all will
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    be well
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    thank you kind frog marina said she
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    continued on her way
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    in a while she came to a clearing in the
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    woods
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    there she saw a strange little hut that
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    stood on chicken feet
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    baba yaga sat in the doorway washing her
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    bony legs
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    her teeth were made of iron her face
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    looked like a bowl of gray pudding
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    what do you want little girl baba yaga
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    asked when she saw marina coming
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    stepmother wants a needle and thread to
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    sew me a smock but i want you to take
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    this horn from my forehead
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    come closer my dear
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    baba yaga said
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    marina came closer baba yaga plucked the
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    horn from her forehead and stuck it onto
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    the wall
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    there now i have done something for you
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    what will you do for me
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    whatever you like auntie marina said go
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    inside my little hut you will find a
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    kettle on the stove
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    fill it with water from the well then
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    light a fire underneath it
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    when the kettle boils call me in
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    baba yaga laughed to herself as soon as
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    the kettle boiled she intended to cook
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    marina for dinner
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    marina went inside the little hut baba
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    yaga's dog barked at her she gave him a
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    piece of meat from the table
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    the cat spat and hissed
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    she filled her saucer with milk
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    then marina found a pot with a hole in
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    the bottom and took it to the well
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    on the way the gate creaked she poured
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    some oil on its hinges the birch tree
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    whistled and moaned she tied her hair
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    ribbon around its trunk
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    at last she came to the well she drew up
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    a bucket full of water and filled the
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    pot to the brim
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    but the water quickly leaked out through
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    the hole in the bottom
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    marina drew up bucket after bucket but
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    the pot remained empty
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    at last baba yaga called well has a
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    kettle boiled
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    soon auntie soon marina answered she
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    carried the empty pot back to the house
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    when she came through the door the cat
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    rubbed against her legs
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    dear cat marina cried tell me how to get
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    away from here
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    the cat meowed you are good and kind you
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    gave me milk i will help you
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    look on the top of the kitchen shelf you
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    will find a towel and a comb
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    take them and run
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    if baba yaga comes after you throw down
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    the towel
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    it will become a mighty river
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    if she crosses that river and begins
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    catching up with you
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    throw down the comb it will become a
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    dense forest she will never get through
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    marina reached on the top of the shelf
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    she found the towel and the comb
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    hiding them in her apron she ran out the
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    back door
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    she passed the dog but it only wagged
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    its tail she ran through the gate but
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    its hinges did not creak
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    she passed the bridge birch tree but it
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    did not make a sound soon she was far
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    away
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    baba yaga grew tired of waiting
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    she wanted her dinner boiled or not on
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    stiff bony legs she hobbled into the
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    kitchen she found the kettle empty the
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    stove cold and marina gone
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    where is the little girl i sent to fill
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    the kettle she screamed at the cat
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    far away far away
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    why did you not spit and hiss to warn me
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    the cat purred
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    that kind girl gave me milk you only
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    give me water
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    baba yaga right out the back door where
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    is that wicked girl the one i sent to
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    fill the kettle
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    she shouted at the dog
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    far away far away
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    why did you not bark to warn me the dog
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    growled
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    that kind girl gave me meat you only
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    give me bones
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    baba yaga ran out
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    the gate past the birch tree
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    why did you not creak why did you not
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    whistle and moan
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    the gate answered that kind girl put oil
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    on my hinges
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    you never bothered to oil them
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    that kind girl gave me a ribbon the
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    birch tree said you never gave me so
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    much as a thread
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    in a rage baba yaga leaped in her motor
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    with pestle and broom she flew after
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    marina but marina saw her coming and
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    threw down the towel
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    as soon as it touched the ground it
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    became a mighty river too deep to go
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    under too wide to cross over
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    baba yaga gnashed her iron teeth
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    she got down on her knees and began to
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    drink she drank and drank until she
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    drank the river dry
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    then she started after marina
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    but marina saw her coming this time too
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    and threw down the comb in an instant it
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    became a dense forest full of trees too
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    tall to climb over too vast to go around
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    baba yaga smashed gnashed her iron teeth
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    then she began gnawing at the trees
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    she nod and nod but there were too many
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    treats for her to gnaw her way through
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    in the end she gave up and went home
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    marina went home too
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    a cavalier of horses met her at the gate
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    it was her father
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    come back at last from his long journey
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    marina ran up to him and threw herself
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    into his arms the merchant could not
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    believe his eyes mourinho was so
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    beautiful she shone like the sun her
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    ugly horn was gone
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    what happened to your horn the merchant
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    gasped auntie and the force took it away
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    what who sent you to baba yaga my
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    stepmother marina replied the merchant
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    flew
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    into a rage he turned to his wife and
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    said in my house you left for nothing i
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    cherished your daughter as my own and
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    this is how you repay me by sending my
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    child to the witch he ordered his
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    servants to drive them both from his
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    house
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    and so marissa and her mother found
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    themselves on the road with nothing but
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    the clothes on their backs
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    that wicked girl has cost us everything
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    maroosa's mother's side but don't
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    despair my darling there is hope yet you
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    must marry a rich merchant or better
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    still a prince to do that you must be
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    beautiful like marina glenn wants to
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    auntie in the forest tell her to make
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    you just like your stepsister
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    marissa grumbled and groaned but in the
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    end she had to go down the forest path
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    too
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    along the way she stopped at the spring
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    hello pretty girl where are you going
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    the tiny frog asked
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    that's no business of yours marissa
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    snapped she threw a stone at the frog
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    and continued on her way
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    in a while in a while she came to the
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    hut on the chicken feet the birch tree
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    whistled and moaned the gate creaked the
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    dog barked the cat's bed and hissed
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    baba yaga sat in the dory with her bony
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    legs crossed in front of her
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    pulling splinters from her jaws with a
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    clamshell she looked up when she heard
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    the noise and saw marusa
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    what do you want she said
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    i want to be just like my stepsister
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    marissa answered so you shall said baba
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    yaga
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    without another word she took marina's
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    horn from the wall
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    and stuck in the middle of marusa's
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    forehead
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    there it stayed and marissa had to wear
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    it all the way home
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    if it hasn't fallen off
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    she still has it still
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Tags
  • Russian Folktale
  • Baba Yaga
  • Marina
  • Marousa
  • Stepfamily
  • Witch
  • Transformation
  • Kindness
  • Cleverness
  • Folk Tale