A Common World Literature Mistake You Are Probably Making Now With Russian Fairy Tales Part 1

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“Good day to you, my dear man. Where are you bound for?”

“Back to my village, Grandfather. And I don’t know what to do. My youngest daughter asked me to buy her a feather of Fenist the Bright Falcon, but I haven’t found it.”

“I have the feather you need; it is a charmed one, but I see you are a good man, so you shall have it, come what may.”

The little old man took out the feather and gave it to the girl’s father, but it looked quite ordinary, so the peasant rode home and he thought: “What good can it be to my Maryushka?”

In a while the old man came home and gave the presents to his daughters. And the two elder ones tried on their new gowns and kept laughing at Maryushka:

“Silly you were, and silly you are! Stick it in your hair now — won’t you look fine with it!”

But Maryushka made no answer, she just kept away from them. And when the whole house was asleep, she cast the feather on the floor and said softly: “Come to me, dear Fenist, Bright Falcon, my cherished bridegroom!”

And there came to her a youth of wondrous beauty. Towards morning he struck the floor and became a falcon. And Maryushka opened the window and the falcon soared up into the blue sky.

And so for three nights she made him welcome. By day he flew about in the blue heavens as a falcon; at nightfall he came back to Maryushka and turned into a handsome youth.

But on the fourth day the wicked sisters caught sight of them and went and told their father.

“Dear daughters,” said he, “better mind your own business.”

“All right,” thought the sisters, “we shall see what comes next.” And they stuck a row of sharp knives into the window-sill and hid by watching.

And after a while the Bright Falcon appeared. He flew up to the window, but could not get into

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