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Straw Bull
Straw Bull or Straw Ox, sometimes Chaff Goby (), is a Ukrainian folk tale about a poor old man and woman whose lives are improved by the creation of a straw bull coated with tar. Plot A old man and woman were poor. While they worked hard spinning flax and working in the field, they had just enough to eat, and no more. One day, the old woman asked the old man to make her a bull made of straw, and to paint it with tar. While the old man did not know why the woman asked, he obliged and made it as she requested. The next day, the old woman took her spinning equipment and the straw bull out to the field, where she told the ox to graze, after which time she fell asleep. While the old woman slept, a bear approached the straw bull and attacked it to use the straw bull’s tar to heal an open wound. The straw bull became stuck to the bear, and the bear ran off. The woman awoke in time to see the straw bull being carried off by the bear, and called her husband to catch it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the List of European countries by area, second-largest country in Europe after Russia, which Russia–Ukraine border, borders it to the east and northeast. Ukraine also borders Belarus to the north; Poland and Slovakia to the west; Hungary, Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov to the south and southeast. Kyiv is the nation's capital and List of cities in Ukraine, largest city, followed by Kharkiv, Odesa, and Dnipro. Ukraine's official language is Ukrainian language, Ukrainian. Humans have inhabited Ukraine since 32,000 BC. During the Middle Ages, it was the site of early Slavs, early Slavic expansion and later became a key centre of East Slavs, East Slavic culture under the state of Kievan Rus', which emerged in the 9th century. Kievan Rus' became the largest and most powerful realm in Europe in the 10th and 11th centuries, but gradually disintegrated into rival regional powers before being d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ukrainian Fairy Tales
Ukrainian may refer or relate to: * Ukraine, a country in Eastern Europe * Ukrainians, an East Slavic ethnic group native to Ukraine * Demographics of Ukraine * Ukrainian culture, composed of the material and spiritual values of the Ukrainian people * Ukrainian language, an East Slavic language of the Indo-European language family, spoken primarily in Ukraine * Ukrainian cuisine, the collection of the various cooking traditions of the people of Ukraine See also * Languages of Ukraine * Name of Ukraine * Religion in Ukraine * Ukrainians (other) * Ukraine (other) * Ukraina (other) * Ukrainia (other) * {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |