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They say that a person can control an unclean spirit. Don't say that. If the devilish power wants to make you faint, it will make you faint...
I was eleven years old. My father had four of us. At the beginning of spring, Father took tobacco to Crimea to sell. He took his three-year-old brother with him, and I, my mother and two brothers remained. Grandfather sowed a mash tree right next to the road and went to live in the kuren.
Grandfather liked the fact that fifty Chumakov carts would pass by him in a day, and everyone could tell something.
One day six carts were driving past: old friends of Grandfather Maxim. We sat in a circle, ate melons, and talked. My grandfather took us in and made my brother and I play the sopilka and dance. And he himself, even though he is old, cannot resist, so his legs dance. And then he couldn’t stand it, and the grandfather began to dance on the path between the cucumber beds. But as soon as he reached the middle of the path, his legs stopped lifting. I accelerated at first, danced to that place, and again my legs became wooden. “Look, a devilish place! Look, a satanic obsession! Herod, the enemy of the human race, will get involved!”
Ah, the rogue Satan! May you choke on a rotten melon!.. - said the grandfather.
And someone laughed from behind. The grandfather turned around, and the place was unfamiliar, a field around, then he took a good look and recognized the threshing floor of the volost clerk. This is where I took you devilry!
Then the grandfather went out onto the path, and a candle lit up on the grave to the side of it. Then the candle went out, and a little further from it another lighted up... Grandfather decided that there was a treasure here. He wanted to dig right away, but he didn’t have a spade with him. The grandfather noticed the place and went home.
The next day, in the evening, armed with a spade and shovel, the grandfather went to the priest’s garden. I reached the place and began to look: there was a threshing floor - the dovecote was gone, the dovecote was visible - there was no threshing floor. And then it started to rain heavily. Grandfather went home.
The next day, walking through his garden, the grandfather struck with a spade on the path where there was no dancing with the words: “Cursed place!” And again I found myself in the field where I saw the candles. Now he had a spade.
He ran to the grave and began to dig. The earth is soft, he dug a cauldron. The grandfather spoke to himself, and around him someone repeated his words several times. The grandfather decided that this was the devil who didn’t want to give up the treasure.
To hell with you! - said the grandfather, throwing the cauldron. - Your treasure is yours!
The grandfather started to run away from there, but everything was quiet around. Grandfather returned and grabbed
cauldron and run as fast as you could. And so he ran to the priest’s garden.
And the mother waited until the evening for the grandfather, but he was still not there. We've already had dinner. The mother washed the pot and began to look for where to pour the slop. And here comes the kitchen along the path. The mother poured hot slop into it. Grandfather will scream in a deep voice!
He began to tell us that now there will be children with bagels, he dug up a treasure. They opened the cauldron, and there was rubbish in there and it was a shame to say what it was.
Since then, the grandfather no longer believes the devil.
And don't think! - he often told us, - whatever the enemy of the Lord Christ says, he will lie, son of a dog! He doesn't have a penny's worth of truth!
And the grandfather will hear that somewhere is restless:
Come on guys, let's baptize! - he will shout to us too. - That's it! so him! good! - and begins to lay crosses.
They say that people can cope with an unclean spirit. You shouldn't say that. If evil spirits want to deceive, so be it.
The narrator was 11 years old. In total, the father had 4 children. In early spring my father went to Crimea and brought tobacco for sale. He took his 3-year-old brother with him, and the narrator stayed at home with his mother and 2 brothers. Grandfather sowed a vegetable garden right next to the road and went to live in the kuren.
Grandfather liked the fact that about 50 carts passed by him a day, and everyone could tell him something.
One day 6 carts were driving past Maxim’s grandfather; these were his grandfather’s old comrades. They sat in a circle, ate and talked. The grandfather took the narrator and his brother to play the pipe and dance. Unable to resist, the grandfather himself began to dance right on the path between the cucumber beds. This is where the unclean thing happened: as soon as the grandfather reached the middle of the path, his legs immediately stopped rising. He started again from the beginning of the path, danced to the middle and again his legs became stiff. It was some kind of enchanted place. The grandfather immediately began to swear and called this place devilish.
Immediately behind the grandfather, someone laughed. The grandfather turned around and looked - and the place was unknown, the field around was unfamiliar. I took a closer look and recognized the threshing floor of one of the volost clerks. This is where the unclean force took my grandfather.
Then the grandfather decided to go out onto the road, and to the side on one of the graves he saw a candle flashing. Soon it went out and a second light came on, a little further away. The grandfather thought that a treasure was hidden in this place. I thought about digging right away, but I didn’t have a shovel with me. Then he decided to remember the place and return here later. With these thoughts he walked home.
In the evening next day the grandfather took a shovel and a spade and went to the place of the treasure. But, having reached the place, he was surprised - if there is a threshing floor, then there is no dovecote, but if a dovecote is visible, then there is no threshing floor. Suddenly there was a heavy downpour, and the grandfather wandered back home.
The next day, the grandfather walked through his garden to the enchanted place with a spade in his hands. Hitting the place where his legs were stiff with a spade, he immediately found himself in the field where he had seen the candles. Only now he had a spade.
He got to the place indicated by the candles and began to dig. Soon he dug out the cauldron. While digging, the grandfather talked to himself, and someone repeated his words several times. The grandfather thought that this was the devil who didn’t want to give up the treasure. Then he left the treasure and ran to the house, and there was silence all around. Then he returned, took the pot and ran as fast as he could. So he got to the priest's garden.
The mother waited for the grandfather until the evening. We’ve already had dinner, but he’s still nowhere to be seen. The mother washed the pot and began to look for where to dump the slops. Suddenly she saw a kukhla floating in the air in the dark. The mother took the hot slop and poured it there. Immediately there was a loud cry from the grandfather. The grandfather told about the treasure he had found and hoped that now all the children would have bagels and bagels.
Hoping for gold, the grandfather opened the pot, and there was something that was embarrassing to even talk about.
After this incident, my grandfather lost all his trust. And he often told his grandchildren that they should never trust the devil - he would definitely deceive. And if I heard something turbulent going on somewhere, I immediately began to be baptized and shouted to my grandchildren to be baptized.
The grandfather fenced off that enchanted place on the path where his legs grew stiff with a fence, and threw all the garbage and weeds there.
Kukhlya* is a vessel for transporting liquids over short distances.
Gogol N.V. fairy tale "The Enchanted Place"
Genre: literary mystical fairy tale
The main characters of the fairy tale "The Enchanted Place" and their characteristics
- Narrator, sexton in his youth. A boy, cheerful and mischievous.
- Grandfather Maxim. Important, angry, serious. I wanted to find a treasure.
- The narrator's mother. I poured slop on my grandfather.
- The sexton begins the story
- Grandfather and his chicken
- Arrival of the Chumaks
- Dancing
- Enchanted place
- Grave with candle
- Searching for a grave
- Again at the grave
- Fear and horror
- Removing the boiler
- Hot slop
- Garbage in the boiler.
- Don't trust evil spirits.
- The sexton remembers his youth, how he lived with his grandfather in a smoking area near the road.
- Once the Chumaks arrived and the grandfather began to dance, but suddenly he found himself in an unfamiliar place.
- Grandfather saw a candle on the grave and realized that there was treasure there.
- A day later, the grandfather again stood in the cursed place and found himself near the grave.
- He was frightened by evil spirits, but he pulled out the cauldron and brought it home.
- The mother doused the grandfather with slop, and there was garbage in the cauldron.
Never believe what evil spirits promise you.
What does the fairy tale “The Enchanted Place” teach?
The fairy tale teaches not to try to get rich quickly, not to look for treasure, but to work. Teaches not to believe in evil spirits. Teaches that there are many mysterious and incomprehensible things in the world. Teaches you to be brave and firm in faith.
Review of the fairy tale "The Enchanted Place"
I really liked this story, which the author called a true story. Of course, I didn’t quite believe this story; it still seemed like a fairy tale to me, but it was interesting to read. And the description of the evil spirits at the grave even brought a smile, although I wouldn’t want to encounter something like that myself at night.
Proverbs for the fairy tale "The Enchanted Place"
The devil is strong, but there is no will.
There would be a swamp, but there would be devils.
If you mess with the devil, you have yourself to blame.
Pray to God and don’t give a damn.
The devil is not as scary as he is painted.
Unfamiliar words in the fairy tale "The Enchanted Place"
Chumak - driver
Bashtan - melon
Kavun - watermelon
Levada - vegetable garden
Khustka - scarf
Kukhwa - barrel
Read summary, brief retelling fairy tales "The Enchanted Place"
The sexton tells an incident from his youth.
His father took him to sell tobacco, and the narrator, grandfather, mother and two brothers remained at home. For the summer, the grandfather went to live in a kuren near the road, and took the boys with him. And then one day the Chumaks, six carts, appeared along the road. Ahead walked a chumak with a large gray mustache.
He recognized his grandfather and said hello. The grandfather was delighted with his old acquaintances and went in to kiss. Everyone sat down, took watermelons, and the grandfather ordered them to play the nozzle and dance. And even my grandfather’s legs were bursting to dance. And so he could not stand it and rushed to trim his knees. I accelerated, reached the middle, but my knee didn’t work out. He turned around, came back, again reached the same place - it didn’t work.
The grandfather swore at Satan, and lo and behold, the place around was unfamiliar. The grandfather took a closer look, saw the priest’s dovecote, and got out onto the path. It goes on, and the night is dark, impenetrable. Suddenly a candle was lit at the grave - there was treasure there. The grandfather regretted that there was neither a shovel nor a spade, he piled a huge log on the grave and went home. I came home, the Chumaks had already left, and my grandfather fell asleep.
The next day, towards evening, the grandfather took a shovel and went to the priest’s garden. He walked and wandered, but couldn’t find the grave. And then it started to rain. Grandfather came home wet, lying there, swearing with the last words.
The next day, the grandfather walked through the melon patch as if nothing had happened, covering the watermelons. And in the evening I walked past the enchanted place with a shovel, couldn’t stand it, walked into the middle and hit it with a spade. And again I found myself in the same place near the grave. And the candle burns again.
The grandfather approached the grave. He sees a huge stone lying on it. The grandfather dug up the stone and pushed it off the grave. The grandfather stopped to take a break, poured tobacco on his fist, just brought it to his nose, someone behind him sneezed, he sprayed it all over the grandfather.
Grandfather turns around - no one. Grandfather began to dig. I dug up the pot and was delighted. “There you are, my dear,” he says. And the bird's nose repeats the same words. And then a ram's head from the top of the tree. And a bear from behind a tree. Grandfather became scared, and the bird's nose, the ram and the bear all repeated after him.
The grandfather got scared and looked around. And the night is terrible - no month, no stars. Yes, some mug peeks out from behind the mountain, his eyes are red, his nose is like fur in a forge. Grandfather threw the cauldron and was just about to run when everything disappeared, everything became quiet.
The grandfather understood that evil spirits only frighten. With difficulty he pulled out the cauldron and ran as fast as he could. And only at the priest’s garden he stopped.
Meanwhile, everyone at home was wondering where grandfather had disappeared to. The mother had already come from the farm with dumplings, everyone had already dined, and the mother washed the cauldron and was looking for a place to pour the slop. He looks like a barrel is coming, someone must be pushing it from behind.
The mother decided that the boys were playing around and poured the hot slop directly into the barrel. When someone starts yelling in a deep voice, lo and behold, it’s grandfather.
He wiped himself off, had a fight, and puts out the boiler. Wealth promises. He opens it, and there is rubbish, garbage, dirt. The grandfather spat and ordered never to believe in evil spirits. As soon as he appeared, he immediately began to be baptized. And he ordered to throw rubbish and rubbish onto the damned place.
Good watermelons grew there.
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Gogol's story "The Enchanted Place" is part of the cycle of his integral work "Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka." The story tells the story of the life of a grandfather who found himself in very mysterious circumstances. The man (already at an advanced age) finds himself in an “enchanted place.” This all happens due to a strange coincidence of circumstances. The story is told from the perspective of clerk Thomas. Many years have passed since the incident.
This story by Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol teaches us not to trust what is inaccessible to our consciousness, not to perform any actions that have an unknown origin. A simple Russian man wanted to understand what happened to him on an ordinary summer evening, but he did not take into account the nature of all these actions and events. Such mysterious and completely incomprehensible events should be treated with great caution. You shouldn't show much interest in something you don't fully understand.
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The main narrator of this work is the clerk Thomas. In his story, he and his readers travel to the distant past, where amazing things happened to his close relative, the nature of which Thomas, even after such a long period of time, was unable to explain.
One day, when Foma was still just a child, a very strange and at the same time interesting story. His father went to work with his son, so they lived with his mother, grandfather and brothers for some time. His grandfather was a unique person, he was significantly different from others, apparently that is why such a story happened to him.
Grandfather in his free time guard the tower. This business is very profitable, it does not take much effort, you can always entertain yourself by talking with passers-by and customers. This is what happened one evening. One day, while talking with customers, Foma’s grandfather began to dance. Apparently, among the people passing by were many of his acquaintances and comrades. Moreover, the grandfather also forced his grandchildren to participate in this masquerade.
Having gained a taste, the grandfather continued active movements with his legs, but suddenly he realized that he could not move further. Suddenly, he found himself in a completely different place. Those who took part in the conversation and the grandchildren inexplicably disappeared somewhere. The grandfather panicked; the place was completely unfamiliar to him before. He heard some strange laughter, walked past an old cemetery, and saw terrifying pictures. Late at night he returned home.
The next day, he took it upon himself to figure out where this place was and figure out what was wrong here.
He took a shovel with him and went to explore the place to sort out that incomprehensible case. Due to the fact that it suddenly started to rain, the grandfather decided to abandon his idea and resume the search the next day.
The next day, late in the evening, he goes to dig the garden to dig up the beds. While working, he gets angry and hits the ground with force with his spade. Suddenly, he again finds himself in that same unfortunate field. He was not far from the grave. There was a stone on it. He decided to light a cigarette, but heard some suspicious sounds, as if someone had sneezed next to his head. Again the grandfather saw terrible pictures. Animals, a ram's head spoke in front of him, terrible things happened that defied explanation. Grandfather was seriously scared. He wanted to run, but his legs did not obey him. The grandfather threw out the boiler, and suddenly everything became the same as it was before this incident. He, no longer tormenting himself with explanations and guesses about the reason for what happened to him, rushed to run.
By that time, relatives and friends had already begun to sound the alarm because they could not find the grandfather. They wondered how a person could disappear who the day before had been absolutely healthy and was in good location spirit. But a very strange event happened here too. After dinner, when our narrator's mother went to take out the trash can, she found our hero in a barrel. The children, thinking that the barrel was empty, played with it and fooled around. When the mother wanted to empty the trash can into a barrel and found her grandfather there, she could not come to her senses for a long time after what had happened. After all this, the grandfather began to walk past the strange place with caution, after some time he fenced it off so that no one would get into the same strange and incomprehensible story
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When the narrator, old Thomas, was still small, something happened to his grandfather unusual story. He claims that evil spirits will make anyone faint. Here's how it happened.
My father went to Crimea to sell tobacco. Grandfather and Foma went to live on a bashtan (plot of land) where watermelons, melons and various vegetables grew. Bashtan was located not far from the road. Chumaks passed by (that’s what they called the transport workers going to the Crimea for fish and salt).
One day, among the passing Chumaks, the grandfather met his acquaintances. They settled down at the kuren (a hut made of straw). There were conversations and memories of the past. Then the grandfather forced Foma and his brother Ostap to dance. And he himself couldn’t stand it and started dancing. He danced well. But this time, having reached half of the smooth place, I was about to show off my thing with my legs, when suddenly I couldn’t move them properly.
The grandfather began to scold Satan, since this was his obsession. And he sees that he is standing in some unfamiliar place. I began to take a closer look and recognized the dovecote in the garden of the priest and the threshing floor of the volost clerk. Coming out onto the path, the grandfather headed towards his tower. But on the side of the road, on a grave, he saw the light of a candle. Treasure! And he has neither a spade nor a shovel with him. He decided to at least notice the place. He put a branch on the grave and went home.
The next day, as soon as it was getting dark, the grandfather went to the mark. But when he came to the priest’s garden, he saw a dovecote, but did not see a threshing floor. I walked a little to the side and the dovecote disappeared. Again the devil began to joke with him. Then it began to rain, and the grandfather returned to his kuren.
The next day he went out into the field with a spade to dig a new bed. Passing by an enchanted place where he could not dance, the grandfather could not resist and hit him with a spade. He looks - again he is in the place where he put the mark. And the grave is here, and his mark lies. Grandfather was glad that now he had a spade. He approached the grave, and there lay a huge stone. The old man rolled it up and decided to take a sniff of tobacco.
But before he could even bring it to his nose, someone sneezed next to him. He was sprayed all over. Grandfather thought that the devil didn’t like tobacco. And he began to dig. Soon I came across a boiler. "Where are you!" – he said joyfully. These words were echoed by the bird's nose, the ram's head and the bear. The old man got scared and said that it was scary here. And again the bird's nose, the ram's head and the bear repeated everything after him. And then the stump turned into a terrible face. The nose is huge, like a blacksmith’s bellows, the lips are like chopping blocks, and the eyes are red and burning with fire. Rozha sticks out her tongue and teases her grandfather. He decided to quickly get out of this place. He grabbed the bowler hat and started to run.
And Foma and Ostap lost their grandfather. Their mother had already brought them dinner, they had already had time to have dinner, but he was still not there. The mother washed the dishes and began to look for somewhere to pour the slop. He looks, and a tub is moving towards the smoking area, as if someone was hiding behind it and pushing it forward. She decided to pour the slop there.
It turned out that my grandfather had brought the boiler. He began to swear at his mother and wipe his face. And then he joyfully tells the guys that soon they will be eating bagels and walking around in golden zhupans (ancient outerwear). And he opened the boiler. And there is no trace of gold there. Just dirt and rubbish. Grandfather spat and washed his hands. From that time on, he himself did not believe the devil and always taught the guys not to believe him. Grandfather said that the devil is the enemy of man, he will deceive. He doesn't have a penny's worth of truth. And every time he encounters a troubled place, he begins to baptize it.
And the grandfather decided not to cultivate the area where he couldn’t dance anymore. He fenced it off and ordered all rubbish to be thrown there. Others later sowed watermelons and melons in this place. But nothing good grew there.
