ABSTRACT

In a certain village there lived an old woman. She had three sons and one daughter. This daughter was so beautiful that boyars even came to look at her. Once she went out into the garden for a walk. Not far away, there lived a sorcerer, a serpent, and he kidnapped her! Her mother and brothers wept profusely when he kidnapped her. Then the brothers spoke: “Bake some loaves for us, mother, and we’ll go look for our sister.”