AN INTERVIEW 1.
Who read children books to you when you were a small child?
2. What's your favourite Slovenian and foreign fairy tale? 3. Who's your favourite fairy tale hero? Why?
LOVRO, 6. A 1. It was my mum who read me stories. 2. My favourite foreign fairy tales were Jack and the beanstalk and The cricket and the ant. 3. My favourite fairy tale hero is Jack. I like him because he is a brave and clever boy.
JAKA, 6. A 1. My mum. 2. My favourite fairy tale was the Three Little Pigs. 3. My favourite story hero is the Hulk because he is big and green.
LEJLA, 8. A 1. My mum read me fairy tales when I was a little child. 2. My favourite stories were The Sleeping Beauty and Martin Krpan. 3. My favourite fairy tale hero is the Sleeping Beauty, because she was a cheerful girl, she had a beautiful voice and she loved animals.
JANEZ, 6. A 1My mum read me the fairy tales. 2 My favourite stories were the Golden Apple and The Lord of the Rings. 3. Sauron from LOTR. I like him because he is an evil lord and he looks cool. On top of that he just looks amazingly awesome.
PIA, 9. A 1.My mum, my dad and my sister. 2. My favourite story was The wolf and the seven little goats. 3. My story hero was Legolas from Lord of the ring. I like him because he is awesome and really cool looking. I really like elves as species.
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The fairy tales that we all knew And all the things that wanted to do
we waited for the night so we could see the light and wish that the tales would be true. WRITTEN BY PIA, 9.A AND JANEZ, 6.A
There once lived a fox. She was very friendly. She once met a hedgehog. She said: »Hello, there. Do you want to be friends?« The hedgehog answered: »Sure, why not?« »Follow me,« said the fox. The hedgehog followed the fox through the forest. They came to the wooden cabin. It was very noisy. »The lumberjack is having a party,« whispered the fox. The hedgehog than said: »And now what?« The fox answered: »Listen. I´m going to go inside and get some food. You wait here, and when I come back, just run.« »Okay,« said the hedgehog. The fox ran inside and hid. She waited for a long time, so the hedgehog fell asleep. After a long time, the fox jumped on the table and grabbed the whole turkey. She quickly ran outside, but she didn´t see the hedgehog. She stepped on the hedgehog. »Nooooo! My leg! It hurts!« screamed the fox. The hedgehog woke up. »You little prick!« said the fox. From that time on, the fox wasn´t friends with the hedgehog.
Don't make a mountain out of a molehill. written by LOVRO and JAKA, 6. A
Once upon a time on winter evenings there were people from Slovenia telling each other stories from the past. High in the mountains and deep in the forest there was a little cottage where a young man was chopping woods. The mother was cooking and taking care of their new born son. One autumn afternoon the mother placed the colourful cradle on the lawn. She was sewing and singing lullaby to her son. Suddenly there was a rustling sound coming from the bushes. She was so frightened that she couldn't speak or move. Then all of a sudden she saw a big brown bear. She didn't scream. All that she did was pick up her child with shaking hands. When the bear approached the cradle, he lifted his left paw. He was bleeding. There was a big black torn stuck in it. He looked at the mother as he was asking her for help. When she saw his wound she put her child back in the cradle. She took a needle and grabbed his wounded paw. She carefully took out the torn which was hurting the bear. He went back to the woods. All of a sudden he returned back to the cradle. The
mother took the child out of it and the bear grabbed it and ran towards the woods. She was very confused. The child fell asleep in her lap. The sun was setting behind the mountains when the bear came back with the cradle full of pears. (translated by LEJLA and AMINA, 8. A)
There lived a husband and a wife. The wife was silent and calm, but the husband was grumpy. The husband said to his wife: «I plow, plant and mow. And what do you do?« It was like that every day. The wife became reluctant and at last said: «You stay at home and I will go on the field.« The husband couldn´t wait for that. He put a plow and a harrow on her wagon and harnessed cows onto it. With pleasure he started to tidy the house. He put some milk on the stove, so that it could boil meanwhile. He was doing great, so he couldn´t oppose some wine for good will. He took a jug and went to the basement. He opened the tap on the barrel, but he heard that the milk on the stove boiled over. He ran from the basement to the kitchen and pulled the milk off the stove, but forgot about the wine. When he remembered, it was too late. The wine flew out of the barrel. He desperately waited for his wife. She came back from the field, all happy and pleased. When she saw the whole house in a mess and her husband all sad, she only smiled. And the husband never again asked what the wife was doing. (translated by JAKA, 6. A)
There lived a stepmother that had a stepdaughter and a daughter. On Christmas day she sent her stepdaughter to go pick some strawberries and she gave her some bread crumbs for the way. The stepdaughter sadly went on her way. She met an old man. His name was South. ''What are you doing?'' the South asked. ''My mother sent me to pick strawberries,'' the girl answered. Than the south asked ''Which winds are the best?'' ''All of them are good, but South is the best,'' answered the girl. ''Step behind my back,'' said the South. She stepped behind his back and the South blew and the strawberries ripened. She picked the whole basket, took them home and gave them to her stepmother. The stepmother was envious and she sent her daughter to pick some strawberries. But she baked a cake for her way.
The daughter met Bora which asked her. ''Listen you, tell me which winds are the best?'' ''They are all evil, but Bora is the worst,'' said the daughter angrily. Than the bora blew so cold around her she came home shivering with cold.
(translated by LOVRO, 6.A)
The story talks about a young boy who was very poor. He was sent on a journey by his father because they had nothing to eat. But before he left, his father told him:Ë?Son where ever you go, remember the first thing you see, you must pick it up and save it.Ë? After that the son left. In the middle of the night he was walking down the road and saw a pea. He remembered his father's advice and picked it up. He continued walking and found another and then another one. He saved them all and continued walking until he saw a castle. He felt really tired so he asked the owner if he could stay. The owner's wife looked at the boy and thought that he was a member of a royal family. They took him in and wanted to test their assumption. They gave him a broken and old bed and if he couldn't sleep, that would mean he was of noble blood. The boy didn't know about the plan but he was scared for his bag so he kept it near him. Sadly the bag wasn't closed enough so the peas were falling out of it. That kept the boy awake all night since he was trying to put them back in.
The owners thought that the broken bed was the reason the boy was awake all night and they were very happy about it. On top of that, they asked the boy if he wanted to marry their daughter and he gladly said yes. So everybody was pleased and they celebrated their marriage. After 40 days the boy had to take his wife to his castle but he didn't have one. Luckily he saw an old man in the night and the man allowed the boy to stay in his castle for one year. So he stayed in the man's castle and after a year a dragon approached the castle but the boy didn't know what to do. To his fortune, an old lady that stayed in the castle knew what to do. She told him to bake some bread from wheat that had been sowed seven times, to knead the dough seven times, then to bake it seven times and finally put it outside the door. The boy did exactly what the woman told him to do. As the dragon was trying to enter the castle, the bread spoke: Hey, Dragon! All your effort is a waste. Unless you are seven times sowed, seven times harvested, seven times milled, seven times kneaded and seven times baked, then I will move aside and let you in.� The dragon was enraged and began hitting the door even harder. Finally it hit it so forcefully that the dragon died.
After that the boy and his wife were saved and they lived happily ever after.
(translated by PIA, 9.A)
There once lived a handsome boy called Ivan Bonehead. Everything he did, he did wrong. He decided to work as a farmhand for a farmer. One day the farmer and his wife had to travel to the nearby town and asked Ivan: »Look after the children so they won't escape into the woods and prepare them some pap to eat. It's easy. Cook some water, add some flour and chop some potatoes into it. And watch the door so that the kids won't run away« Then they left. Ivan woke up the kids, sat behind them and said: »I'm looking after you.« Then he started cooking. He brought in a tub, full of water, and poured a half of a sack of flour and a basket of potatoes. He mixed everything with a beanpole. He loudly asked the children: »Who do I have to chop up now?« (He meant the potatoes.) The children got scared and ran into the woods thinking it was them Ivan wanted to chop up. Ivan ran after them. But before leaving the house, he quickly pulled the door off the hinges and carried it on his back so that he could watch both, the door and the children as he was supposed to do. He was looking for the children in the woods with the
door on his back when he met a bear. The bear asked him: » Why are you carrying the door?« Ivan told him everything. The bear called him stupid, started to laugh and wanted to eat him up. Ivan said: » You should rather eat the kids so they won't be able to escape again.« The bear rolled on the ground, laughing. He said: »I've never seen such an idiot in my life. Let's go. My wife should see you.« He took him into his den. While they were walking, Ivan was hitting the trees with the door on his back and didn't want to put it down when the bear suggested him so. He said: »I promised to watch the door and I'm going to!« When they came into the den, Ivan asked the she-bear if she had seen any children hanging around. She said: »Mine are at home, sleeping.« Ivan said:«I'd like to see them – perhaps they're mine.« She showed him three little bears and Ivan said: »No, they aren't mine. I had only two.« Now even mother bear saw how silly Ivan was. She was so amused that she decided to make Ivan their servant. His first task was to pick raspberries and so he did. The little bears were happy. The bear was grateful and helped Ivan search for the children. When they found them, Ivan asked the bear to
look after his door and bring it back to the farmer's house because he was supposed to bring the kids back home. When Ivan entered the house, he saw the farmer and his wife crying next to the »meal« he prepared – the tub, full of potatoes and flour. The couple were very happy to see their children. The farmer asked Ivan where the door was. Ivan said the door would be brought soon. They looked through the window and saw the bear with the door on his back coming towards their house. The villagers ran away in all directions, climbed into trees and onto roofs. Even the dogs were scared. Only the red cock was standing in the middle of the road and crowing: »Cock-a-doodle-doo! Go away!!« Russian folk tale
(translated by NIK, 7. A)
One day a rabbit came to a dog who was a shoemaker. ÂťMr. Master, make a pair of shoes for me. I feel really cold.ÂŤ So the dog made a pair of good shoes. The rabbit came and tried them on. But just when he put both shoes on, he said they were very good and quickly ran through the door into the woods without paying. The dog ran after him. And till that day the whole dog family is looking for the runaway rabbit to pay for his shoes. But they can't find him. (translated by ELMA, 7. A)
Once upon a time there was a little mouse. It was climbing through the fence when, suddenly, it cut and tore its belly. The little mouse went to the shoemaker's and asked him to sew its belly. The shoemaker said:«Give me some grease!« The mouse went to a pig and asked for some grease but the pig said:« Give me some corn!« The mouse ran to a corn stalk and asked for one corn cob. The corn stalk said:«You need to give me some milk so I can grow.« The mouse hurried to a cow and asked for some milk. The cow said:«Give me some feed.« The mouse quickly took a schythe and went to mow the grass. It gave it to the cow so the cow gave the milk. The mouse sprayed the milk over the corn stalk and it got a corn cob. Then the mouse gave the corn to the pig and got some grease. After that, the mouse ran to the shoemaker and gave him the grease. Finally, the shoemaker sewed up its belly.
Then the little mouse went climbing through the fence again and it tore its belly‌. (translated by NAJA, 7. A)
Where Ribnica stands today, there used to be a large lake. There were plenty of fish, big and small ones. But the prettiest among them was the goldfish. In the mountains lived a giant and he was large, scary and strong. He slept during the day and went fishing at night. The goldfish helped him fish by lighting him. Because there was no water in Suha krajina, people had to fetch it from the lake. One day they were scooping the water when they suddenly caught the goldfish. They threw it among the rocks. There the poor goldfish turned into stone. When the giant woke up, he went fishing as he used to. He was fishing but the goldfish didn't come to light him. He was looking for it, but sadly, he couldn't find it, which made him really mad. He started breaking rocks and throwing them into the lake. He rooted out everything he could reach: trees and bushes. Large holes appeared in the lake. There were giant holes in the swamp through which all the water flowed away.
And so the lake vanished but a lot of fish were left on the bottom. People with carts from near and far came to collect the fish. That is why this place got its name – it was called Ribnica. In remembrance of that day, Ribnica has got a fish in its coat of arms. (translated by TIMOTEJ, 9. A)
A fox came to a hedgehog and asked him: »Uncle Hedgehog, where do you get so many so delicious pears? And how do you bring them home from under the tree? Have you got a basket?« »Come with me, auntie,« said the hedgehog. »I'll show you how to get the pears.« The fox and the hedgehog went to the grove. When they came under the pear tree, the hedgehog started to roll on the ground and soon some pears pinned onto his prickles. When there were enough pears on his back, the hedgehog carried them into his hole. And then the fox started to roll on the ground, too. But there were nettles and thorns. The fox suddenly felt terrible smarting pain all over her body. She ran away and never wished for sweet pears again. (translated by ERIK, 7. A)
It happened in times when our great grandfathers didn't know what wheat and rye was. In those days, a very rich fisherman lived by The Drava river in Carinthia. He was a hard-working man. All the property he had, he gained by fishing in The Drava. One day he asked The Drava thankfully: »Mother Drava, how can I repay as you helped me prosper?« The river Drava answered: » Go far from home. There, in a town far away, you will find people who have got white and rye bread. Buy a loaf of each and bring them to me.« The fisherman set out on his journey and arrived into rich and beautiful places. He saw people eating something he hadn't seen before: fine bread. He bought two loaves as The Drava wanted him to. When he returned home, he threw both, the wheat and the rye bread into the river Drava. Suddenly, The Drava began to rise and it overflowed the left and the right river bank. When the water receded, nice yellow wheat and rye started to sprout from the soil.
That is how people got cereal seeds and started to sow and grow rye and wheat everywhere. (translated by DANIJEL, 8. A)
1. How many dwarfs where there in in the story about the Snow White? 6
7
12
2. Was the stepmother evil? YES
NO
I DON'T REMEMBER.
3. Did Snow White die? YES
NO
4. Why did the queen wanted to kill her?
5. Why was Sleeping beauty cursed?
6. Who saved her?
7. How did he do it?
8. Do fairy tales have happy endings? YES
NO
SOME
9. Which of these is a fairy tale number? 3
6
0
10. Who usually wins good or evil? GOOD
EVIL
(JANEZ, 6. A and PIA, 9. A)