The Magic Swan Geese

The Magic Swan Geese

The Magic Swan Geese or Гуси-лебеди is a Russian fairy tale collected by Alexander Afanasyev in "Narodnye russkie skazki". [Alexander Afanasyev, "Narodnye russkie skazki" " [http://www.fdi.ucm.es/profesor/fpeinado/projects/kiids/apps/protopropp/swan-geese.html The Magic Swan Geese] "]

It is Aarne-Thompson type 415. [Heidi Anne Heiner, " [http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/sevendwarfs/other.html Tales Similar to The Six Swans] "]

ynopsis

A couple left their daughter in charge of her younger brother, but she lost track of him, and the magic swan geese snatched him away. She chased after him and came to an oven. It offered to tell her if she ate its rye buns; she scorned them, saying she doesn't even eat wheat buns. She also scorned similar offers from an apple tree, and a river of milk. She came across a little hut built on a hen's foot, in which she found Baba Yaga with her brother; Baba Yaga set her to spin flax and left. A mouse scurried out and said it would tell her what she needed to know if she gave it porridge; she did, and it told her that Baba Yaga was heating the bath house to steam her, then she would cook her. The mouse took over her spinning, and the girl took her brother and fled.

Baba Yaga sent the swan geese after her. She begged the river for aid, and it insisted she eat some of it first; she did, and it sheltered her. When she ran on, the swan geese followed again, and the same happened with the apple tree and the oven. Then she reached home and safety.

ee also

*The Old Witch
*The Witch
*Prunella
*The King of Love
*The Enchanted Canary
*The Little Girl Sold with the Pears

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