The Magic Swan Geese

Wild Swans (Russian Гуси - лебеди ) is a folk tale ( Aath 451) from Russia and there especially popular in the tradition of the fairy tale collector Alexander Nikolayevich Afanasyev.

Content

In fairy tales, the little brother of a girl is kidnapped by wild swans. She had left him alone because of the play with other children instead of giving him eight. In pursuit of the swans they will pass an oven, an apple tree and a milk flow whose support she is not getting it because they ignored their instructions from Sedentary and arrogance.

Eventually it gets to the hut of the witch Baba Yaga and learns that the latter had sent the swans and their cannibalistic tendency. Before they can be eaten by the witch, she flees with the brother and is pursued by the swans of the witch. Now gets you on the way back help from the flow of milk, apple tree and oven, as it has refined stored by their adventure their negative behavior. Through the help she gets back home to safety.

Weblink

• Http://www.hobbitaniya.ru/afanasyev/afanasyev67.php ( text in Russian fairy tales )
• Http://www.nachrussland.de/ma/wildeschwaene.html ( fairy tale text in German )

• Fairy tale
• Literature ( Russian)
• Literary work