Serpent Bugorych and his last breakfast

Belarusian nationwide fairy tale

Every morning he ate people.

On even days - men, on odd women. But ate them not completely, but half.

Particular attention was paid to the choice of candidates for the dish. Delicats were considered those who were too noisily noisy or out of rank - on the walls or on paper, it doesn’t matter. And brain gyrus was considered a special treat.

It was important to withstand the process of fermentation of the elect - for example, like grape snails. The selected 13 days without food was kept in quarantine.

All these manipulations took place publicly, with the strict implementation of rituals, ceremonials, traditions and historical analogies.

And if the final action took place modestly and not pathetic enough, then all of the above was reviewed and improved. Thus, the routine breakfast quickly turned into a daily repeating sight, causing a flurry of the emotions of the audience - from envy to hatred, from fear to regret, from joy to disappointment. Moreover, all emotional ones had a great understanding that they or their child will someday become the main dish of one of the breakfasts.

The vast majority of reaction had two deep directions - public and homemade.

Those who came to the event in a tartlet costume and, holding back the tears of tenderness, sat in the front row, applauding the louder - as a rule, coming home, dropped off their amusing outfit and in the presence of the family, showing a bare ass TV, they went to reaches the Faberge’s eggs and diamonds, which were declared to the great -grandmother. Those who came in a costume of mushrooms and sat in a distance, watched elegant tartlets with undisguised anger and envy. They, returning home, spread several slaps and dangling the dog, made confidential letters in different instances with important proposals for the fate of breakfast, but ending with the paragraph that they needed to allocate a tartlet costume (preferably several pieces).

The holders of the costume of invisibles watching a broadcast in the VKS mode had such a feeling that they ran out of the room without waiting for the end. Some hugged children or hid under the blanket. Those who put on costumes, popularly called "for role -playing games" (not to be confused with plumbers and lawn mowers!), The spectacle led to disappointment and subsequent depression. And even experts were not clear the exact reasons for their condition.

Those who call themselves folk, wore costumes from multi -colored flags, easily stuck in any place. They not only encouraged eating, but also actively and loudly performed with initiatives aimed, as they thought, at the quality composition of the used ones. For this, they allowed the gathering and collecting of everything that remained of eaten. An important place in the process was occupied by cooks and cooks, preparing breakfast and selected according to certain principles: with red eyes - searched for the most well -fed; with transparent eyes - specialized in powders and herbs; With their eyes running around - specialists to drink, roll up and pour.

The rest (not very important, not too noticeable) - apprentices for washing and washing.

The chief of the entire kitchen group himself could not do anything, but there was a mastic to lick the plates-for which Bugorych appreciated him (for sure!).

I completely forgot that among this costume breakfast there were still mummers - that’s what they were called. It is not clear where they got the patterns of their outfits. They say that either from the Egyptian pyramids, or from Chinese treatises - no one knows for sure! But at breakfasts, they were reflected the invasion and a ringing of glass suspensions was heard, as on crystal chandeliers and candlesticks.

The serpent could not stand them all, but those few minutes of meal, when they applauded standing, trying to touch his slippery snake skin at least a little, somehow improved his mood, added appetite and the desire to devour one of them with appetite to the general pleasure of the rest.

The appearance of a spigoner's pork costume at the breakfast at first even amused others and a hill, but then the annoying smell began to annoy and disturb him. It came to the point that morning appetite reached five dishes at the same time! Quality and entertainment fell, world records not only ceased to interest a masquerade mass, but also led to digestion.

This is where the most anticipated happened (for Bugorych, of course)! Having come for breakfast without appetite (or rather, when it was slightly nauseous with indigestion and cramps in the intestines), the serpent suddenly found with horror that it was he was the main dish today. Under the endless roar of applause, he was still able to hear before eating the last phrase: "Enjoy appetite!"

The fairy tale told the editorial office of the "New"