Latvian fairy-tales

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Anna Lastovska

RIGA, 2014

Latvia is famous for various interesting fairy-tales. The most popular are called:

Sprīdītis Kurbads Maija un Paija Tales about flowers

Latvian writer, Anna Sakse, wrote a lot of interesting tales about flowers. The most

popular is «Hyacinth».

Once upon a time there lived two

friends on the Earth. They were like brothers. Their

names were Apollon and Hyacinth. The

friends loved peace and nature. Once

they stayed near the coast of the river.

They swam, caught blue dragonflies, threw a disc, but

they were too noisy and a

beautiful nymph appeared from

the river.

From the first minute Apollon and Hyacinth fell in love with the nymph named Daphne. The nymph said that

she would love the one who could throw the disc farther. Apollon’s hand trembled and two shots were bad, but

Hyacinth threw the disc very well.

Aggressive Apollon threw the disc at Hyacinth’s head. Hyacinth fell over and emerged into

eternal sleep.

Daphne and her friends came out of the river at night. They lit white, red, blue, pink and yellow candles and put them

all over the place.

Those candles were burning like flowers in blossom and eventually turned into them – the beautiful

flowers of hyacinths.

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