Latvian Fairy-tales
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Transcript of Latvian Fairy-tales
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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