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Once upon a time there was a tailor. One day he was working in his workshop at the table and suddenly heard a woman’s voice in the yard. 
- Jam, I sell jam!
The tailor looked out of the window and shouted:
- Come here, dear woman. I'll buy your jam.
The merchant picked up the heavy basket, climbed the steep steps to the tailor's workshop and laid out her preserves and marmalade in front of him.
The tailor opened all the jars one by one and smelled their contents. Finally he said:
- I’ll take three spoons of this.
The merchant was disappointed that he took so little, but still measured out the measure and went home. 
The tailor spread jam on a piece of bread and placed it on the table.
“I’ll finish this shirt and then eat it,” he said to himself.
The smell of jam soon attracted flies.
- Let's go away! - the little tailor shouted. But the flies did not understand his words and continued to circle over the jam.
The angry little tailor swung a rag at them and seven dead flies fell to the floor.
- Just seven. “An unprecedented thing!” exclaimed the little tailor. “Everyone in the world should know about this.”
He made himself a leather belt with the inscription: KILLING SEVEN IN ONE FLOW. The tailor put on his new belt and set off around the world. And in order not to get hungry, he put a piece of cheese in his pocket. I found a bird in the yard and also put it in my pocket. 
On the outskirts of the city, the little tailor met a terrible giant.
“Hello,” said the tailor. - I travel around the world in search of wealth. Would you like to join me?
The giant just laughed:
“You, poor little thing, must be completely crazy.”
This little tailor was struck to the quick:
- Look at my belt, then you will know who I am.
The giant read the inscription and thought that the tailor had killed seven people. However, I could not believe that such a frail-looking man could be such a strong man. The giant decided to test the little tailor. He grabbed a stone and squeezed it so hard that water flowed out of the stone.
“You won’t be able to do it,” he told the tailor.
The little tailor took a piece of cheese from his pocket and squeezed it so that whey flowed out of the cheese.
However, this did not convince the giant. He grabbed a stone and threw it far, far away.
“Try it,” said the giant.
“Not bad,” the tailor agreed. - But notice that the stone still fell to the ground. - With these words, he pulled a bird out of his pocket and threw it into the sky. The bird rejoiced at freedom and disappeared into the sky. 
“But if you are such a strong man, help me lift this tree,” said the giant, pointing to a huge oak tree.
“With pleasure,” answered the little tailor. - You take the trunk, and I will carry the branches, because there are much more of them and they are heavier.
The giant walked ahead and did not notice that the tailor sat down among the branches.
Soon the giant said:
- I'm tired and need to rest for a minute.
The little tailor quickly jumped out of the tree, grabbed the branches and pretended that he was carrying the tree along with the giant.
“Apparently, you are not as strong as you think,” remarked the little tailor.
They walked further until they saw a cherry tree strewn with berries. The ripest cherries were at the top and the giant tilted the tree so that the tailor could pick them.
But when the little tailor grabbed the top, the tree suddenly straightened and the little tailor flew to the other side in one fell swoop.
- Me too. “You can’t even hold a twig,” said the giant.
“Of course I can,” answered the little tailor. - I jumped over the tree on purpose. Come on, try it. Let's see if we succeed. 
The giant tried to jump, but one leg got tangled in the branches.
At this time, the king and his retinue were passing by.
- What's going on here? - he asked.
“Nothing special, Your Royal Majesty,” answered the tailor. - I just caught a giant.
Brave Little Tailor
The Giant and the Little Tailor Carry an Oak (Karl Offterdinger)
The little tailor catches the unicorn (Karl Offterdinger)
The little tailor throws stones at the giants; drawing by Alexandra Zik (1845-1907)
Plot
After work, the poor tailor is preparing to dine on a few boiled plums and a slice of bread, but flies flock to his food, and with a swing, he slams seven of them with one blow. Considering this a feat, the tailor cuts out a belt for herself, on which she embroiders the words: “In one fell swoop I kill seven.” Inspired, he goes out into the wide world to seek his happiness. On one mountain he meets a giant, offering him companionship. The giant wants to test his new acquaintance first. As the giant squeezes the water from the boulder, the tailor releases the juice while clenching the cheese in his fist. The giant throws a stone high into the air beyond sight, but it eventually lands. The tailor releases a bird into the sky, which flies away and does not return. Finally, the giant offers to demolish a powerful oak tree together. The tailor gives the trunk to the giant, while he chooses to carry the twigs and branches. The tailor, singing a song, rides on the branches, and the giant carries the entire weight.
Then the giant leads the tailor to a cave where his other relatives live. At night, the giants decide to kill the man and bring down an iron crowbar on his sleeping place. However, before that, the tailor, finding the bed too large, sleeps quietly in the corner. In the morning the giants see him alive and unharmed, and run away.
The tailor enters the royal service, but other warriors are afraid that if they quarrel with him, seven may fall from just one blow. The warriors present the king with a choice: either a hero, or they themselves must leave military service. Not wanting to lose his faithful servants, and at the same time fearing to send away the “strong man,” the king sends a new warrior to battle two giants, promising half the kingdom and the hand of his daughter for victory. Throwing stones at the sleeping giants, the tailor draws them into a fight with each other. Then the king sends the tailor twice more into the forest to catch a unicorn and a ferocious boar, which the trickster lures into traps.
Seeing no more reason to postpone the marriage, the king marries the hero to his daughter. After some time, from the husband’s conversations in a dream, the wife understands that he is an ordinary tailor and begs the father-king to send servants at night to tie up the hero. However, the old squire warns the tailor about the plot. The little tailor pretends to be asleep and suddenly begins to shout loudly about his exploits, mentioning that he can easily cope with the people who are hiding behind the door. Frightened by these words, the conspirators scatter, and the tailor remained king until his death.
The moral of the story is that even a weak person, if he is only self-confident and resourceful, can achieve a lot in life.
Translations into Russian
The Russian reader is most familiar with the classic translation of the fairy tale from German, edited by Polevoy.
Film adaptations
- "Brave little tailor." Cartoon by Walt Disney studio (produced in the USA), 1938. In the role of the little tailor - Mickey Mouse.
- "Brave Little Tailor" Cartoon from the Soyuzmultfilm studio (production: USSR), 1964.
- "Brave Little Tailor" Film directed by Dušan Trancik (production: Czechoslovakia, Germany, Italy, France), 1988.
see also
Notes
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- Udalevka (Loevsky district)
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In one German city there lived a tailor. His name was Hans. All day long he sat on the table by the window, legs crossed, and sewed. I sewed jackets, sewed pants, sewed vests.
One day the tailor Hans is sitting on the table, sewing, and hears people shouting on the street:
- Jam! Plum jam! Who wants some jam?
"Jam! - thought the tailor. - Yes, even plum. This is good".
He thought so and shouted out the window:
- Auntie, auntie, come here! Give me some jam.
He bought half a jar of this jam, cut himself a piece of bread, spread it with jam and began to finish sewing his vest.
“Here,” he thinks, “I’ll finish my vest and eat some jam.”
And in Tailor Hans’s room there were many, many flies—it’s impossible to count how many. Maybe a thousand, maybe two thousand.
The flies smelled the jam and flew onto the bread.
“Flies, flies,” the tailor tells them, “who called you here?” Why did they attack my jam?
But the flies don’t listen to him and eat the jam. Then the tailor got angry, took a rag, and when he hit the flies with the rag, he killed seven at once.
- That's how strong and brave I am! - said the tailor Hans. “The whole city should know about this.” What a city! Let the whole world know. I’ll make myself a new belt and embroider on it in large letters: “When I’m angry, I kill seven.”
So he did. Then he put on a new belt, put a piece of cottage cheese in his pocket for the road and left the house.
At the very gate he saw a bird entangled in a bush. The bird fights, screams, but cannot get out. Hans caught the bird and put it in the same pocket where he had the curd cheese.
He walked and walked and finally came to a high mountain. He climbed to the top and saw a giant sitting on the mountain and looking around.
“Hello, buddy,” the tailor says to him. - Come with me to travel around the world.
- What a friend you are to me! - the giant answers. - You are weak, small, and I am big and strong. Leave while you're still alive.
- Did you see this? - says the tailor Hans and shows the giant his belt.
And on Hans’s belt is embroidered in large letters: “When I’m angry, I kill seven.”
The giant read it and thought: “Who knows, maybe he really is a strong man. We need to test it."
The giant took a stone in his hands and squeezed it so tightly that water flowed from the stone.
“Now try to do it,” said the giant.
- That's all? - says the tailor. - Well, for me this is an empty matter.
He slowly took a piece of cream cheese out of his pocket and clenched it in his fist. Water poured out of the fist onto the ground.
The giant was surprised at such strength, but decided to test Hans again. He picked up a stone from the ground and threw it into the sky. He threw it so far that the stone was no longer visible.
“Come on,” he says to the tailor, “try this too.”
“You throw high,” said the tailor. “And yet your stone fell to the ground.” So I’ll throw a stone straight into the sky.
He put his hand in his pocket, grabbed the bird and threw it up. The bird soared high into the sky and flew away.
- What, buddy, what's it like? - asks the tailor Hans.
“Not bad,” says the giant. “But now let’s see, can you carry a tree on your shoulders?”
He led the tailor to a large felled oak tree and said:
- If you are so strong, then help me take this tree out of the forest.
“Okay,” answered the tailor, and thought to himself: “I am weak, but smart, and you are stupid, but strong.” I will always be able to deceive you.”
And he says to the giant:
“You just put the trunk on your shoulders, and I will carry all the branches and twigs.” After all, they will be heavier.
And so they did. The giant put the trunk on his shoulders and carried it. And the tailor jumped onto a branch and sat astride it. The giant drags the entire tree on himself, and even a tailor to boot. But he can’t look back - the branches are in the way.
Tailor Hans rides on a branch and sings a song:
How did our guys go?
From the gate to the garden...
The giant dragged the tree for a long time, finally got tired and said:
- Listen, tailor, I’ll throw the tree to the ground now. I'm very tired.
Then the tailor jumped off the branch and grabbed the tree with both hands, as if he had been walking behind the giant all along.
- Oh you! - the tailor said to the giant. - So big, and so strong. Apparently you don't have enough.
“Here,” says the giant who brought Hans, “this is where we live.” Climb onto this bed, lie down and rest.
The tailor looked at the bed and thought:
“Well, this bed is not for me. Too big.”
He thought so, found a darker corner in the cave and went to bed. And at night the giant woke up, took a large iron crowbar and hit the bed with a swing.
“Well,” said the giant to his comrades, “now I’m rid of this strong man.”
All six giants got up in the morning and went into the forest to cut down trees. And the tailor also got up, washed, combed his hair and followed them.
The giants saw Hans in the forest and got scared. “Well,” they think, “if we didn’t even kill him with an iron crowbar, now he’ll kill us all.”
And the giants fled in different directions.
And the tailor laughed at them and went wherever he wanted.
He walked and walked and finally came to the fence of the royal palace. There, at the gate, he lay down on the green grass and fell fast asleep.
And while he was sleeping, the royal servants saw him, bent over him and read the inscription on his belt: “When I am angry, I kill seven.”
- This is how the strong man came to us! - they said. “We need to report him to the king.”
The royal servants ran to their king and said:
— A strong man lies at the gates of your palace. It would be nice to hire him. If there is a war, he will be useful to us.
The king was delighted.
“That’s right,” he says, “call him here.” The tailor got some sleep, rubbed his eyes and went
serve the king.
He serves one day, then serves another. And they began
royal warriors say to each other:
- What good can we expect from this strong man? After all, when he is angry, he kills seven. That's what it says on his belt.
They went to their king and said:
“We don’t want to serve with him.” He'll kill us all if he gets angry. Release us from service.
And the king himself already regretted that he had taken such a strong man into his service.
“What if,” he thought, “this strong man really gets angry, kills my soldiers, hacks me to death and sits in my place?.. How can I get rid of him?”
He called the tailor Hans and said:
“In my kingdom, in a dense forest, there live two robbers, and both of them are so strong that no one dares to come close to them.” I order you to find them and defeat them. And to help you I give a hundred horsemen.
“Okay,” said the tailor. “When I’m angry, I kill seven.” And I can handle just two robbers in jest.
And he went into the forest. And a hundred royal horsemen galloped after him.
At the edge of the forest the tailor turned to the riders and said:
“You, horsemen, wait here, and I’ll deal with the robbers myself.”
He entered the thicket and began to look around. He sees two robbers lying under a large tree, snoring so much in their sleep that the branches sway above them. The tailor, without hesitation, filled his pockets full of stones, climbed a tree and began throwing stones from above at one robber. Either it will hit him in the chest, or on the forehead. But the robber snores and hears nothing. And suddenly one stone hit the robber on the nose.
The robber woke up and pushed his comrade in the side:
- Why are you fighting?
- What are you talking about! - says another robber. - I'm not hitting you. Apparently you dreamed this.
And again they both fell asleep.
Then the tailor began to throw stones at the other robber.
He also woke up and began shouting at his comrade:
- Why are you throwing stones at me? Crazy?
Yes, how he will hit his friend on the forehead! And that one is his.
And they began to fight with stones, sticks and fists. And they fought until they killed each other to death.
Then the tailor jumped out of the tree, went out to the edge of the forest and said to the riders:
- The job is done, both are killed. Well, these robbers are evil! And they threw stones at me, and waved their fists at me, but what could they do with me? After all, when I’m angry, I kill seven!
The royal horsemen rode into the forest and saw:
That's right, two robbers are lying on the ground. They lie there and don’t move—both are killed.
Tailor Hans returned to the palace to the king.
And the king was cunning. He listened to Hans and thought: “Okay, you dealt with the robbers, but now I’ll give you such a task that you won’t survive.”
“Listen,” the king says to Hans, “now go back into the forest and catch the fierce unicorn beast.”
“If you please,” says tailor Hans, “I can do that.” After all, when I’m angry, I kill seven. So I can handle one unicorn in no time.
He took an ax and a rope with him and went into the forest again.
It didn’t take long for tailor Hans to look for the unicorn - the beast itself jumped out to meet him, scary, its hair stood on end, its horn sharp as a sword.
The unicorn rushed at the tailor and was about to pierce him with its horn, but the tailor hid behind a thick tree. The unicorn ran and slammed its horn into the tree. He rushed back, but couldn’t pull him out.
- Now you won’t leave me! - said the tailor, threw a rope around the unicorn’s neck, cut out its horn from the tree with an ax and led the beast on the rope to his king.
Brought the unicorn straight to the royal palace.
And the unicorn, as soon as he saw the king in a golden crown and a red robe, began to sniffle and wheeze. His eyes are bloodshot, his fur stands on end, his horn sticks out like a sword.
The king got scared and started to run. And all his warriors are behind him. The king ran far away - so far that he couldn’t find his way back.
And the tailor began to live and live in peace, sewing jackets, trousers and vests. He hung the belt on the wall and never saw any more giants, robbers, or unicorns in his lifetime.
Brothers Grimm
One fine summer morning a little tailor was sitting on a table by his window. He was cheerful, happy and worked as hard as he could.
And at this time a merchant appeared on the street.
Jam! Jam! Good jam! - she shouted.
The little tailor was delighted. He stuck his head out the window and shouted:
Here, here, dear auntie! Here you can quickly sell your goods!
The woman went up with the heavy basket to the tailor on the top floor. He forced her to open all the pots, examined them for a long time, weighed them in his hands, smelled them and finally said:
The jam seems good. Give me, dear aunt, an eighth of a pound - or perhaps even a whole quarter of a pound.
The merchant, who hoped to sell a lot of jam, weighed him a quarter of a pound and left, grumbling angrily. And the little tailor cut off a huge slice of bread and spread it with jam.
This must be very tasty,” he said, “but before I eat it, I have to finish my jacket.”
He put the bread next to him and began sewing again. And his stitches from joy came out larger and larger.
Meanwhile, the flies sitting on the walls smelled the jam and flew to the bread.
Who called you here? - the little tailor shouted and began to drive away the uninvited guests.
But the flies did not understand human language and flew in whole flocks. Here the tailor, as they say, ran out of patience.
Wait, here I am! - he shouted, grabbed a rag and dealt a cruel blow to the flies.
When he lifted the rag, as many as seven dead flies lay on the table with their legs outstretched.
That's how great I am! - exclaimed the little tailor, marveling at his own courage. “The whole city should know about this.”
And the little tailor quickly cut himself a belt, sewed it and embroidered on it in large letters:
One blow of seven!
The little tailor's heart leapt for joy.
What a city! - he said. - Let the whole world know how brave I am!
He put on the belt and decided to go to distant lands. The workshop now seemed too small for his valor.
Before setting off, he searched the whole house, looking for something to eat for the road. But he didn’t find anything except a piece of cheese, which he put in his pocket.
At the gate in the bushes, the tailor noticed a bird entangled in a snare, grabbed it and also put it in his pocket. Then the little tailor set off cheerfully. He was light and agile and therefore did not feel the slightest fatigue.
The road led the tailor to the mountain. He climbed to the very top and saw a huge giant there, sitting calmly and looking around.
The little tailor bravely approached him and said with dignity:
Hello, buddy! Listen to me: why are you sitting here? I’ve decided to travel around the world and try my luck. Do you want us to go together?
The giant looked contemptuously at the little tailor and said:
Oh, baby! Pathetic little man!
No matter how it is! - answered the little tailor. He unbuttoned his caftan and showed the giant his belt:
Now, read what kind of person I am.
The giant read:
One blow of seven!
He thought that they were talking about the enemies that the tailor had killed, and he felt some respect for the little man.
But the giant still wanted to test the little tailor. He picked up the stone and squeezed it so hard in his hand that water began to drip from the stone.
Come on, do it if you are so strong! - he said.
Only that? - exclaimed the little tailor. - Yes, this is fun for us!
He pulled out a soft cheese from his pocket and squeezed it in his hand: the juice began to flow.
Well,” he said, “perhaps this will be cleaner than yours?”
The giant didn't know what to say. He never expected this from the little man and did not believe his own eyes.
Then the giant took a stone and threw it so high that it could hardly be seen.
Come on, baby, do it!
“Nicely cast,” said the little tailor. “But your stone still fell back to the ground, and I’ll throw it so hard that mine won’t come back at all.”
He pulled a bird out of his pocket and threw it up. The delighted bird quickly soared high and, of course, did not return.
Well, how do you like that trick, buddy? - asked the little tailor.
“You know how to throw,” said the giant. - Let's see if you can carry something heavy.
He led the little tailor to a huge felled oak tree that lay on the ground and said:
If you are so strong, help me take this tree out of the forest.
With pleasure! - answered the little tailor. - You take only the trunk on your shoulders, and I will lift and carry the branches and branches - it will be heavier.
The giant put the trunk on his shoulders, and the tailor sat on a branch. And the giant, who could not turn around, had to drag the entire tree and even the little tailor into the bargain.
The little tailor was very pleased up there, and he whistled a cheerful song, as if carrying trees was child's play for him.
And the giant dragged a little huge weight, could not stand it and shouted:
Listen, I'll quit now!
The tailor quickly jumped out of the tree, grabbed the branches with both hands, as if he had been carrying them all the time, and said to the giant:
You are so big, but you can’t carry one tree!
They moved on. The giant saw a cherry tree, grabbed it by the top, bent it down and gave it to the little tailor to hold. He wanted to feast on ripe cherries, but could not hold the tree. As soon as the giant let go of the branch, the cherry straightened up and threw the tailor up.
When he descended safely to the ground, the giant said:
What is this, do you really not have enough strength to hold such a twig?
Enough strength! - answered the little tailor. - What does this mean for a man who kills seven with one blow! I jumped over the tree simply because the hunters below were shooting at the bushes. Well, just jump like that!
The giant tried, but could not jump over the tree and hung on the branches. The little tailor had the upper hand here too.
Well, since you’re such a good fellow, let’s go spend the night in our cave,” said the giant.
The little tailor happily agreed and went with the giant.
In the cave the giants sat by the fire and ate; everyone had a roasted lamb in their hands.
The little tailor looked around and thought: “It’s much more spacious here than in my workshop.”
The giant invited the little tailor to lie down on the bed and get a good night's sleep.
But the bed was too big for the little tailor. He did not lie down on it, but climbed into some corner and fell asleep.
When midnight came, the giant stood up, grabbed an iron crowbar and with one blow split the bed in two.
He was sure that the tailor was sleeping on it and that now he had finally destroyed this jumper.
Early in the morning the giants went into the forest and completely forgot about the little tailor. Suddenly they look - and he comes towards them, cheerful and healthy. The giants were afraid that he would beat them all to death, and they fled in horror.
While he was sleeping, people gathered around him. People began to look at the little tailor and read the inscription on his belt:
One blow of seven!
“Ah,” they said, “what does this great warrior need here in our peaceful kingdom?”
They went to the king, told him everything and said that this man should not be missed: he would be useful in case of war.
The king liked the advice. He ordered one of his courtiers to go to the tailor and, as soon as he woke up, offer him to enter military service with the king.
The messenger stood next to the tailor and waited for a long time while he slept and while he woke up, and then stretched and rubbed his eyes.
The little tailor listened to the royal proposal and said:
Yes, that’s exactly what I came for and am ready to immediately enter the royal service.
He was received with great honor, but the royal soldiers really disliked the little tailor and dreamed that he would be sent somewhere far away.
What will happen, they said to each other, if we ever quarrel with him and he rushes at us? After all, then seven would die at once. None of us will survive here.
They decided to all go to the king together and ask for his resignation.
“We cannot be equal to a man who kills seven with one blow,” they said.
The king did not want to lose all his faithful servants for the sake of one thing and decided to get rid of the tailor, but did not know how to do it. He was afraid that the little tailor would get angry, destroy him along with his entire army and seize the throne.
The king thought about this for a long time and finally came up with an idea. He ordered to tell the little tailor that, as a great warrior, the king was giving him an important assignment.
Two giants settled in one of the forests of the kingdom; they cause enormous disasters with their robberies and robberies, arson and murder. No one can approach them without risking their lives. The little tailor must kill these two giants, and then the king will marry his only daughter to him and give her half the kingdom as a dowry. The little tailor can take a hundred knights to help him.
“Not bad for a person like me!” thought the little tailor. “A beautiful princess and half the kingdom - this is not offered to us every day!”
And he said in response:
Oh yes, I will tame the giants, but I don’t need hundreds of knights. He who kills seven with one blow has nothing to fear from two.
The little tailor went on a campaign, and a hundred knights still followed him.
When they arrived at the edge of the forest, the little tailor said to his sp?????Huh?
Stay here, I will deal with the giants myself.
He dashed into the forest and began to look around.
Soon he saw both giants. They slept and snored so much that the trees bent.
The tailor quickly filled his pockets full of stones and climbed the tree under which the giants were sleeping.
He sat down at the very top, just above the heads of the giants, and began throwing stones onto the chest of one of them.
The giant did not feel this for a long time; Finally he woke up, pushed his comrade in the side and said:
Why are you fighting?
“You dreamed it,” said the other, “I didn’t even think of beating you.”
They fell asleep again. Then the little tailor began to throw stones at the other giant.
What does it mean! - shouted another. -What are you throwing at me?
I'm not throwing anything at you! - the first one grumbled angrily.
They argued a little among themselves, but soon calmed down and fell asleep again.
And the little tailor went back to his work. He chose the largest stone and threw it with all his might onto the chest of the first giant.
Well, this is too much! - he shouted, jumped up like crazy, and hit his friend so hard that he swayed; the other returned the favor with the same coin.
Here the giants became completely furious. They began to uproot trees and beat each other with them until they both fell down dead.
Then the little tailor jumped to the ground.
It’s also fortunate,” he said, “that they didn’t tear out the tree on which I was sitting!” Otherwise I would have to jump to something else like a squirrel. Well, it’s okay, we are agile people.
He took out his sword and struck the giants several times in the chest.
Then he went out to the knights and said:
The job is done: I finished them both off. It wasn’t easy for me, but when a man who kills seven with one blow gets down to business, there’s no way around it.
Aren't you injured? - asked the knights.
“No, everything turned out well,” answered the little tailor: “they didn’t even touch a hair on my head.”
The knights did not want to believe him and went into the forest. There they found dead giants, and uprooted trees lay around.
The little tailor demanded the promised reward from the king. But he already repented of this promise and again thought about how to get rid of this dangerous hero.
“Before you get my daughter and half of the kingdom,” said the king, “you must accomplish one more feat.” There is a unicorn in the forest that causes us great harm. You must catch him.
“I’m even less afraid of the unicorn than I am of the giants,” answered the little tailor. - Seven with one blow - that’s my business.
He took a rope and an ax with him and went into the forest, and again ordered the knights who were given to help him to wait at the edge.
He didn't have to look long for the unicorn. The unicorn immediately jumped out of the thicket, rushed straight at the little tailor and wanted to pierce him with his horn.
Quiet, quiet! - said the little tailor. - It can't be done that quickly.
He stopped and waited, and when the animal was already very close, he quickly jumped back behind a tree. The unicorn rushed at the tree with all his might and stuck his horn so tightly into the trunk that he could no longer pull it out.
Well, I got a bird! - said the little tailor, came out from behind the tree, threw a rope around the unicorn’s neck, then cut off its horn that stuck out in the tree with an ax, and led the beast to the king.
But the king did not want to give him the promised reward and set one more condition: before marrying the princess, the tailor had to, with the help of hunters, catch a wild boar that lived in the forest and caused a lot of harm.
With pleasure! - answered the tailor. - This is child's play for us.
He did not take the hunters with him into the forest, and they were very happy about it. The boar had already given them such a welcome several times that they did not want to meet him again.
When the boar saw the little tailor, he rushed at him, baring his fangs menacingly, and wanted to knock him down. But the nimble hero slipped into the chapel, which was nearby, and immediately jumped out through a small window on the other side.
The boar rushed after him, and the little tailor ran around the chapel and slammed the door.
The enraged beast was caught. After all, he was too heavy and clumsy and could not jump out the window.
The little tailor called the hunters so that they could see the captured animal with their own eyes. And he himself went to the king. The king was now, willy-nilly, forced to fulfill his promise and give him his daughter and half of the kingdom.
If the king knew that in front of him was not a great warrior, but a simple little tailor, he would have been even more upset.
The wedding was celebrated with great pomp and little joy, and the tailor became king.
A little later one night the young queen heard her husband say in his sleep:
Hey, kid, sew a jacket and mend your pants, otherwise I’ll beat you with a yardstick!
Then she realized that the young king was a simple tailor, and the next morning she complained to her father and asked to save her from such a husband.
The king calmed her down and said:
The next night, leave your bedroom door unlocked. My servants will stand at the door, and as soon as your husband falls asleep, they will tie him up and carry him to a ship that will take him to distant lands.
The Queen was very happy.
But the royal squire heard everything and told the little tailor.
In the evening the little tailor went to bed at the usual time. When it seemed to the queen that he had already fallen asleep, she got up, opened the door and lay down again.
And the little tailor, who was only pretending to be asleep, began to shout in a loud voice:
Hey, kid, sew a jacket and mend your pants, otherwise I’ll beat you with a yardstick! I finished off seven with one blow, killed two giants, brought a unicorn from the forest, caught a wild boar. Should I be afraid of those standing there outside the door!
The servants heard what the little tailor was saying, were terribly frightened and began to run, as if a whole army was chasing them.
Since then, no one else dared to touch the little tailor, and he remained king until the end of his life.
Fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm
Brief summary of the fairy tale "The Brave Little Tailor":
A fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm about a brave little tailor whose rise to success began with killing seven flies with one blow. This inspired the hero so much that he embroidered the inscription “He beat seven in one fell swoop” and set off around the world. I met a giant, outwitted him several times and proved that he was stronger. The giant brought him to his friends in a cave for the night, and at night they tried to kill him with a crowbar, but the little tailor was lucky and escaped death. In the morning, leaving the cave, the little tailor dispersed all the giants with his appearance and went on. He reached the kingdom and entered the service of the king. The king gave him three very difficult tasks, for which he promised to marry his princess daughter and half his kingdom to the tailor. It was necessary to kill two giant robbers, catch a unicorn and neutralize an evil forest boar. The brave little tailor easily completed these tasks and received what was promised, just as the king did not feel sorry for his daughter, and even half his kingdom. But after the wedding, the tailor’s wife found out who he really was and planned an insidious plan - to send her husband on a ship to distant lands. But this idea also failed and the little tailor remained king for the rest of his life.
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The fairy tale "The Brave Little Tailor" - read:
One summer morning, a little tailor was sitting by the window on his sewing table; he was having fun and sewing as hard as he could. And a peasant woman walked down the street, shouting: “I sell good jam! I sell good jam!” The little tailor was pleased to hear this; he stretched his frail neck out the window and shouted:
Hey, my dear, come upstairs, here you can sell your goods!
The woman went up with her heavy basket to the tailor on the third floor and began to untie all her jars in front of him. He looked at them all, examined them, picked them up, looked closely, smelled them and finally said:
The jam seems good. Well, give me four lots, my dear, otherwise I’ll probably take the whole quarter of a pound.
The woman, hoping to sell a lot of her goods, sold the tailor as much as he asked for and left, grumbling with frustration.
Well, God bless this jam,” exclaimed the tailor, “and send me vigor and strength!” - With these words, he took out bread from the cabinet, cut out a piece of bread and spread it with jam.
It probably won’t be bad,” he said, “but first I’ll finish the jacket, and then I’ll eat properly.”
He put a piece of bread next to him and continued to sew, but to celebrate, he began to sew with large stitches. Meanwhile, the smell of sweet jam spread throughout the room, and many flies sitting on the wall sensed it and flocked to the bread in a swarm.
Hey you, who called you here? - said the tailor and began to drive away the uninvited guests.
But the flies did not understand the German language, they did not listen to him, and even more of them flew in. Here the tailor, as they say, finally ran out of patience, he lost his temper, rushed over, grabbed the cloth and shouted: “Wait, I’ll give it to you!” - without any pity, he smacked the flies with all his might. He picked up the cloth, looked, counted - and there lay in front of him, with his legs outstretched, no less than seven killed flies. “What a great fellow I am! - he said, and he himself was surprised at his courage. “The whole city needs to know about this.”
Then the tailor hastily cut out a belt, stitched it together and embroidered on it in large letters: “He beat seven in one fell swoop.” “What a city,” he continued to reason further, “the whole world should know about this!” - And his heart trembled with joy, like a ram’s tail.
The tailor girded himself with a belt and prepared to set off across the world, considering that the tailor's workshop was too small for his courage. But before setting off on his journey, he began to rummage around the house to see if there was anything that he could take with him, but he found nothing except a head of old cheese, and took it with him. At the gate he saw a bird entangled in the bushes; he caught it and also put it in his pocket along with the cheese. Then he boldly set off on his journey, and he was light and agile and therefore did not feel any fatigue.
The path led him to the mountain, and when he climbed to the very top, he saw a huge giant sitting there and calmly looking around.
The little tailor boldly approached him, spoke to him and asked:
Hello, comrade, why are you sitting here and looking at the free and wide world? I’m going to wander around the world, I want to try my luck, won’t you come with me?
The giant looked contemptuously at the tailor and said:
Hey you pathetic ragamuffin!
No matter how it is! - answered the little tailor, and he unbuttoned his jacket and showed the giant his belt, “here, you can read for yourself what kind of person I am!”
The giant read: “He beat seven in one fell swoop” - and thought that we were talking about the people who were killed by the tailor, and he felt some respect for this little man. But he wanted to test it first. He took the stone in his hand and squeezed it so that water flowed out of it.
“So you try the same,” said the giant, “if you have enough strength.”
Is that all? - asked the little tailor. - Yes, this is nothing for me! - And he reached into his pocket, took out a head of soft cheese and squeezed it so that the juice flowed out of it.
Well,” he said, “perhaps it will be better than yours?”
The giant did not know what to say to him - he never expected this from such a little man. Then the giant picked up a stone and threw it up so high that it disappeared from sight.
Come on, drake, try it too.
Well, it was thrown well,” said the tailor, “but the stone fell to the ground again; and I’ll leave him so that he won’t come back. - And he reached into his pocket, took out the bird and threw it up. The bird, rejoicing at its freedom, took off, rose high into the sky and never returned.
Well, how do you like this, my friend? - asked the tailor.
“You know how to throw well,” said the giant, “but let’s see if you can bear more weight.” - And he led the little tailor to a huge oak tree that lay cut down on the ground, and said: “If you are strong enough, then help me pull the tree out of the forest.”
Okay,” answered the little man, “you put the trunk on your shoulders, and I will lift and carry the twigs and branches; it will be much heavier.”
The giant put the trunk on his shoulders, and the tailor sat down on one of the branches; and the giant, who could not look back, had to drag the whole tree and, in addition, the little tailor. And the little tailor was cheerful and whistled a song: “Three tailors drove up to the gate...”, as if dragging a tree was child’s play for him.
The giant dragged the heavy burden not far, but was unable to carry it further and shouted:
Listen, I’ll have to throw away the tree.
Then the tailor quickly jumped off the branch, grabbed the tree with both hands, as if he was carrying it alone, and said to the giant:
You're so big, but you can't carry a tree.
They moved on together. Passing by a cherry tree, the giant grabbed it by the top, on which the ripest cherries hung, bent it down, gave it to the tailor and began to treat him. But the tailor was too weak, he could not hold the branches, and when the giant let them go, the tree rose and the tailor flew into the air with him. He fell safely to the ground, and the giant said:
Why are you, are you really not able to hold such a small twig?
“I have enough strength,” answered the little tailor, “do you think that this means anything to the one who beat seven in one fell swoop?” It was I who jumped over the tree, because below there were hunters shooting at the bushes. Well, jump like that if you can.
The giant tried, but he couldn’t jump over the tree and hung on the branches, so that the little tailor had the upper hand here too.
And the giant said:
If you are so brave, then come with me to our cave, and you will spend the night there.
The little tailor agreed and went after the giant. They approached the cave, and lo and behold, other giants were sitting there by the fire, and each of them had a roast sheep in his hand, and each of them was eating it. The little tailor looked around and thought: “And here it’s much more spacious than in my tailor’s.”
The giant showed him the bed and told him to lie down and get a good night's sleep. But the bed was too big for the tailor; he did not lie down in it, but climbed into the very corner. Then midnight came, and the giant, thinking that the little tailor was sleeping in a deep sleep, got up, took a large iron crowbar and with one blow broke the bed in two, thinking that he had already destroyed this grasshopper.
Early in the morning the giants went into the forest, and forgot about the little tailor, and suddenly he comes out, cheerful and fearless, to meet them. Then the giants got scared and thought that he would kill them all, and they ran away.
And the little tailor moved on, wherever his eyes looked. He wandered for a long time and finally came to the courtyard of the royal palace and, feeling tired, lay down on the grass and fell asleep. While he was lying, people came, began to look at him from all sides and read the inscription on his belt: “He beat seven in one fell swoop.”
“Oh,” they said, “what does this noble hero want here in peacetime?” This must be some important person.
They went and announced this to the king, believing that in case of war he would be an important and necessary person here and that under no circumstances should he be released. The king liked this advice, and he sent one of his courtiers to the tailor, who was supposed to offer him, when he woke up, to join the king in military service.
The messenger approached the sleeping man, waited until he began to stretch and opened his eyes, and only then told him the royal commission.
“That’s why I came here,” answered the tailor. “Well, I’m ready to enter the king’s service.”
He was received with honors and given a special room. But the royal soldiers were unfriendly to the little tailor and wanted to sell him somewhere far away. “What will come of this? - they said to each other. “If we quarrel with him, he’ll pounce on us and beat seven of us in one fell swoop.” None of us can stand against him here.” And so they decided to go together to the king and ask him for his resignation.
How can we stand, they said, next to such a man who beats seven in one fell swoop?
The king was saddened that he had to lose all his faithful servants because of one thing, and he wanted to quickly get rid of the tailor so as not to let him see him again. But the king did not dare to give him his resignation: he was afraid that he would kill him, and at the same time the courtiers, and he himself would sit on his throne. He thought and pondered for a long time and finally decided to do so. He sent to the little tailor and told him to announce that he wanted to make him, as a great military hero, some proposal.
Two giants settled in one of the forests of his kingdom; they caused great harm with their robberies and robberies, arson and fires; and no one dares to approach them without being in mortal danger. So, if he defeats and kills these two giants, then he will give him his only daughter as a wife, and half the kingdom as a dowry, and a hundred horsemen will go with him to help.
“It would be nice for someone like me,” thought the little tailor, “to get the beautiful princess as a wife and half a kingdom into the bargain—this doesn’t happen every day.”
Oh yeah! - he said in response. “I will defeat these giants, and I don’t need hundreds of horsemen for this; whoever beats seven in one fell swoop has nothing to fear from two.
And so the tailor set off on a campaign, and a hundred horsemen rode behind him. Arriving at the edge of the forest, he said to his guides:
You stay here, and I’ll deal with the giants one on one. - And he dashed into the forest, looking around.
Soon he saw two giants. They lay under a tree and slept, and at the same time snored with all their might, so that even the branches on the trees swayed.
The little tailor, don’t be lazy, filled both his pockets with stones and climbed up the tree. He climbed halfway up the tree, climbed onto a branch, sat down just above the sleeping giants and began throwing stone after stone onto one of their chests. The giant did not notice anything for a long time, but finally woke up, pushed his friend in the side and said:
Why are you hitting me?
Yes, you dreamed about it,” he answered him, “I’m not hitting you at all.” - And they went to bed again. And the tailor took out a stone and threw it on the second giant.
What is this? - exclaimed the second. -What are you throwing at me?
“I’m not throwing anything at you,” the first one answered and began to grumble.
The giants quarreled like this for some time, and when they were both tired of it, they made peace and fell asleep again. And the tailor began his game again, chose a larger stone and threw it with all his might at the chest of the first giant.
This is too much! - he shouted, jumped up like crazy, and as he pushed his friend against the tree, it all began to tremble. The second one repaid him in the same coin, and they were so furious that they began to uproot trees with their feet and beat each other with them, until finally they both fell dead to the ground.
Then the little tailor jumped from the tree. “It’s also fortunate,” he said, “that they didn’t tear out the tree on which I was sitting, otherwise I would probably have had to jump like a squirrel from tree to tree - well, we are agile people!” He pulled out his sword and struck both giants in the chest with all his might, then came out of the forest to the horsemen and said:
It's done, I finished them both off. However, I had a hard time; Sensing trouble, they tore entire trees out of the ground to protect themselves, but this did not help them much, since someone like me appeared who could kill seven in one fell swoop.
Aren't you injured? - asked the riders.
“It turned out well,” the tailor answered, “and they didn’t touch a hair.”
The riders did not want to believe him and headed into the forest. They saw giants there, swimming in their own blood, and uprooted trees lay around them.
And then the little tailor demanded from the king the reward he had been promised, but he already repented of his promise and began again to figure out how he could get rid of such a hero.
“Before you get my daughter as a wife and half a kingdom into the bargain,” he told him, “you must perform one more heroic deed.” A unicorn lives in the forest, it causes great harm, you must catch it.
I fear the unicorn even less than the two giants; seven in one fell swoop - that's just the thing for me.
So he took a rope and an ax with him, went out into the forest and ordered the people who were given to help him to wait for him again at the forest edge. He didn't have to search long; The unicorn soon appeared and rushed straight at the tailor, intending to immediately impale him on his horn.
Be quiet, be quiet,” said the tailor. - It won’t work out that quickly!
He stopped and waited until the animal came closer, then he quickly jumped back and hid behind a tree. The unicorn ran with all his might and stuck his horn into the trunk, so tightly that he did not have enough strength to pull it back - so he was caught.
“Now the bird is in my hands,” said the tailor and, coming out from behind the tree, he threw a rope around the unicorn’s neck, then cut off its horn with an ax, which was stuck in the tree, and when everything was in order, he led the animal out of the forest and brought him to the king.
But the king still did not want to give him the promised reward and made a third demand. For the wedding, the tailor had to catch him a wild boar, which causes great harm in the forest, and the huntsmen were supposed to help him in this matter.
Okay,” replied the tailor, “this is child’s play for me!”
He did not take the huntsmen with him into the forest, and they were very pleased with this, because the wild boar met them more than once in such a way that they lost the desire to chase him.
When the boar noticed the tailor, it rushed at him, foaming at the mouth and baring its fangs, intending to knock him down. But the clever hero jumped into the chapel that was nearby and instantly jumped out of there through the window. The boar ran after him, and the tailor ran around the chapel and slammed the door behind him - here the fierce beast was caught: he was too heavy and awkward to jump out of the window.
Then the tailor called the huntsmen so that they could see the captured beast with their own eyes, and in the meantime our hero went to the king; and as much as he didn’t want to, he had to keep his promise, and he gave him his daughter and half the kingdom in addition.
If he had known that it was not a great hero standing before him, but a simple little tailor, he would have felt even more uneasy. The wedding was celebrated with great pomp and little joy; and so the tailor became king.
Some time later, at night, the young queen heard her husband saying in his sleep: “Boy, come on, sew me a jacket and mend my pants, otherwise I’ll hit you with a yardstick.” Then she guessed which alley this young man was from; The next morning she told her father about her grief and began to ask him to save her from such a husband - after all, he turned out to be a simple tailor. The king began to console her and said:
This night, do not lock your bedchamber, my servants will stand at the door, and when he falls asleep, they will come in, tie him up and carry him to the ship, and he will be taken to distant lands.
The queen was pleased with this, but the royal squire, who heard all this and was devoted to the young king, told him about this plan.
“I’ll handle this matter,” said the little tailor.
In the evening he went to bed with his wife at the usual time. She thought that he was already asleep, got up, opened the door and went back to bed. And the little tailor pretended to be asleep and began to shout loudly: “Boy, sew me a jacket and mend my pants, otherwise I’ll blow you with a yardstick!” I beat seven in one fell swoop, killed two giants, took a unicorn out of the forest and caught a wild boar - should I be afraid of those who stand behind the door!
When the servants heard what the tailor was saying, great fear seized them, and they ran away, as if a formidable army was chasing them on their heels. And from that time on, no one dared to touch the tailor again.
And so, just as the little tailor was a king, he remained one for the rest of his life.
