Brave time. The Tale of the Brave Tailor - Brothers Grimm

In one German city there lived a tailor. His name was Hans. All day long he sat on the table by the window, legs crossed, and sewed. I sewed jackets, sewed trousers, sewed vests. One day tailor Hans was sitting on the table, sewing and heard people shouting on the street:

- Jam! Plum jam! Who wants some jam?

"Jam! - thought the tailor. - Yes, even plum. This is good".

He thought so and shouted out the window:

- Auntie, auntie, come here! Give me some jam.

He bought half a jar of this jam, cut himself a piece of bread, spread it with jam and began to finish sewing his vest.

“Here,” he thinks, “I’ll finish my vest and eat some jam.”

And in the room of the tailor Hans there were many, many flies - it’s impossible to count how many. Maybe a thousand, maybe two thousand.

The flies smelled the jam and flew onto the bread.

“Flies, flies,” the tailor tells them, “who called you here?” Why did they attack my jam?

But the flies don’t listen to him and eat the jam. Then the tailor got angry, took a rag, and as soon as he hit the flies with the rag, he killed seven at once.

- That's how strong and brave I am! - said the tailor Hans. “The whole city should know about this.” What a city! Let the whole world know. I’ll make myself a new belt and embroider on it in large letters: “When I’m angry, I kill seven.”

So he did. Then he put on a new belt, put a piece of cottage cheese in his pocket for the road and left the house.

At the very gate he saw a bird entangled in a bush. The bird fights, screams, but cannot get out. Hans caught the bird and put it in the same pocket where he had the curd cheese.

He walked and walked and finally came to a high mountain. He climbed to the top and saw a giant sitting on the mountain and looking around.

“Hello, buddy,” the tailor says to him. - Come with me to travel around the world.

- What a friend you are to me! - the giant answers. “You are weak and small, but I am big and strong.” Leave while you're still alive.

- Did you see this? - says the tailor Hans and shows the giant his belt.

And on Hans’s belt is embroidered in large letters: “When I’m angry, I kill seven.”

The giant read it and thought: “Who knows, maybe he really is a strong man. We need to try it."

The giant took a stone in his hands and squeezed it so tightly that water flowed from the stone.

“Now try to do it,” said the giant.

- That's all? - says the tailor. - Well, for me this is an empty matter.

He slowly took a piece of cream cheese out of his pocket and clenched it in his fist. Water poured out of the fist onto the ground.

The giant was surprised at such strength, but decided to test Hans again. He picked up a stone from the ground and threw it into the sky. He threw it so far that the stone was no longer visible.

“Come on,” he says to the tailor, “try this too.”

“You throw high,” said the tailor. “And yet your stone fell to the ground.” So I’ll throw a stone straight into the sky.

He put his hand in his pocket, grabbed the bird and threw it up. The bird soared high, high into the sky and flew away.

- What, buddy, what's it like? - asks the tailor Hans.

“Not bad,” says the giant. “Now let’s see if you can carry a tree on your shoulders?”

He led the tailor to a large felled oak tree and said:

- If you are so strong, then help me take this tree out of the forest.

“Okay,” answered the tailor, and thought to himself: “I am weak, but smart, and you are stupid, but strong.” I will always be able to deceive you."

And he says to the giant:

“You just put the trunk on your shoulders, and I will carry all the branches and twigs.” After all, they will be heavier.

And so they did. The giant put the trunk on his shoulders and carried it. And the tailor jumped onto a branch and sat astride it. The giant drags the entire tree on himself, and even a tailor to boot. But he can’t look back - the branches are in the way. Tailor Hans rides on a branch and sings a song:

How did our guys go?

From the gate to the garden...

The giant dragged the tree for a long time, finally got tired and said:

- Listen, tailor, I’ll throw the tree to the ground now. I'm very tired. Then the tailor jumped off the branch and grabbed the tree with both hands, as if he had been walking behind the giant all along.

- Oh you! - the tailor said to the giant. - So big, but you apparently have little strength.

“This,” says the giant who brought Hans, “is where we live.” Climb onto this bed, lie down and rest.

The tailor looked at the bed and thought: “Well, this bed is not for me. Too big."

He thought so, found a darker corner in the cave and went to bed. And at night the giant woke up, took a large iron crowbar and hit the bed with a swing.

“Well,” said the giant to his comrades, “now I’m rid of this strong man.”

All six giants got up in the morning and went into the forest to cut down trees. And the tailor also got up, washed, combed his hair and followed them.

The giants saw Hans in the forest and got scared. “Well,” they think, “if we didn’t even kill him with an iron crowbar, now he’ll kill us all.”

And the giants fled in different directions.

And the tailor laughed at them and went wherever he wanted.

He walked and walked and finally came to the fence of the royal palace. There, at the gate, he lay down on the green grass and fell fast asleep.

And while he was sleeping, the royal servants saw him, bent over him and read the inscription on his belt: “When I am angry, I kill seven.”

- That’s how the strong man came to us! - they said. “We need to report him to the king.”

The royal servants ran to their king and said:

- A strong man lies at the gates of your palace. It would be nice to hire him. If there is a war, he will be useful to us.

The king was delighted.

“That’s right,” he says, “call him here.”

The tailor got some sleep, rubbed his eyes and went to serve the king.

He serves one day, then serves another. And the royal soldiers began to say to each other:

– What good can we expect from this strong man? After all, when he is angry, he kills seven. That's what it says on his belt.

They went to their king and said:

“We don’t want to serve with him.” He'll kill us all if he gets angry. Release us from service.

And the king himself already regretted that he had taken such a strong man into his service. “What if,” he thought, “this strong man really gets angry, kills my soldiers, hacks me to death and sits in my place?.. How can I get rid of him?”

In one German city there lived a tailor. His name was Hans. All day long he sat on the table, legs crossed, and sewed. I sewed jackets, pants, vests.

One day Hans is sitting on the table, sewing a vest, and hears people shouting on the street: Jam! Plum jam! Who wants some jam? Jam! - thought the tailor. - This is good! And he shouted out the window: Auntie, auntie, come here!

I bought half a jar of jam, cut myself a piece of bread, spread it with jam...

And he began to finish sewing the vest. “Here,” he thinks, “I’ll finish it and eat some jam.” And in Hans’s room there were a lot of flies - it’s impossible to count how many. Maybe a thousand, maybe two thousand.

The flies smelled the jam and flew onto the bread. “Flies, flies,” the tailor tells them, “who called you here?” Why did they attack my jam! - But the flies don’t listen to him.

The tailor got angry, took a rag and hit the flies!

Killed seven immediately. - That's how strong and brave I am! The whole city should know about this. What a city! Let the whole world know!

And he cut himself a new belt and embroidered on it in large letters: When I am evil, I kill seven. I threw a piece of curd cheese into my bag and that was it.

At the very city gates he saw a bird entangled in a bush. The bird fights, screams, but cannot get out. Hans caught the bird and stuffed it into his bag, where he had some cheese...

And he walked along the road. I walked for a long time. Finally I came to a high mountain.

He climbed to the top and saw a giant sitting on the mountain, looking around. “Hello, buddy,” says Hans. - Let's go travel around the world with me.

What a friend you are to me! - the giant answers. - You are weak, small, and I am big and strong. Leave while you're still alive!

Did you see this?! - Hans pointed to his belt. The giant read it and thought: “Who knows, maybe he really is strong. We need to try it."

The giant took a stone in his hands and squeezed it so tightly that water flowed from the stone. “Now try to do it!” said the giant. “That’s all?” - the tailor laughed.

He slowly took a piece of cream cheese out of his bag and clenched it in his fist. Water splashed in all directions.

The giant was surprised at such strength. However, I decided to test Hans again. He picked up a stone from the ground and threw it into the sky. He threw it so far that the stone was no longer visible.

“Come on,” he says to the tailor, “try it!” “You throw high,” said the tailor, “and yet your stone fell to the ground.” So I’ll throw a stone straight into the sky.”

He put the rune in his bag, grabbed the bird and threw it up. The bird soared high, high into the sky and flew away.

“Not bad,” says the giant. “Now help me carry the tree home.” - And he led the tailor to the felled oak tree. - “Okay,” answered Hans, and thought to himself: “I am weak, but smart, and you are strong, but stupid.”

he said to the giant: “You just put the trunk on your shoulders, I will carry all the branches and twigs.” After all, they will be heavier!”

And so they did. The giant carried the trunk, and the tailor sat astride the branch. The giant drags the whole tree on himself and even a tailor to boot.

Finally he couldn’t stand it - he shouted: “Listen, tailor, I’ll throw the tree to the ground now, I’m very tired!”

Then the tailor jumped off the branch, grabbed the tree, as if he had been walking behind the giant all along, and shouted back: “Oh, you!” So big, but you have little strength!”

They finally arrived at the cave. There were five giants sitting around the fire. Everyone has a roasted lamb in their hands. “Here,” says the giant, “this is where we live.” Climb onto the bed, lie down and rest."

The tailor looked at the bed and thought: “Well, this bed is not for me.” Too big!” And he hid in a darker corner.

At night, the giant woke up, took an iron crowbar and hit the bed with a swing. “Now I’m rid of this strong man!” he said to his comrades.

In the morning the giants came to the forest, and Hans met them! The giants got scared. “Well,” they think, “if we didn’t kill him with an iron crowbar, he’ll kill us all now!”

And the giants ran away in different directions... And the tailor laughed at them and walked away wherever they looked.

He walked and walked and finally came to the fence of the royal palace. There, at the gate, he lay down on the green grass and fell fast asleep.

The royal servants saw him, read the inscription on his belt and said: “This is how the strong man came to us!” We must report him to the king."

- “A strong man lies at the gates of your palace. It would be nice to hire him. If there is a war, he will be useful to us." - The king was delighted. - “That’s right,” he said, “call him here.”

The tailor serves one day, another day serves. And the royal warriors began to say to each other: “What good can we expect from this strong man?” After all, when he’s angry, he kills seven!”

They went to the king and said: “We don’t want to serve with him.” He'll kill us all if he gets angry. Release us from service."

And the king himself already regrets that he took such a strong man into his service: “What if he really gets angry, kills my soldiers, hacks me to death and sits in my place?” How can I get rid of it?"

He called Hans and said: “Two robbers live in a dense forest. Both are so strong that no one dares to approach them. I order you to find them and defeat them. I give a hundred horsemen to help."

Okay,” said the tailor. - When I’m angry, I kill seven. And I can deal with two robbers in jest!

And he went into the forest. And a hundred royal horsemen galloped after him. At the edge of the forest, Hans turned around and said to the riders: “You wait here, and I’ll deal with the robbers myself.”

Hans entered the thicket and saw two robbers lying under a large tree, snoring so much that the branches swayed above them.

The tailor filled his pockets with stones, climbed a tree and began throwing stones at one of the robbers: first in the chest, then in the forehead. Finally it hit me on the nose. The robber has woken up...

Pushed the other one. - “Why are you fighting?” - “What are you talking about,” he says. “I didn’t touch you, you dreamed.”

And they both fell asleep again. And the tailor began to throw namni at the second robber.

He woke up and hit his comrade on the forehead! And they began to fight and fought until they killed each other.

Then Hans went out to the edge of the forest and said to the horsemen: “The job is done, both are killed.” Well, they were evil... But can you really cope with me: when I’m angry, I kill seven.”

The royal horsemen rode into the forest and looked: two robbers were lying on the ground - not moving. Both were killed.

The cunning king found out about this and asked Hans a new task: “You deftly dealt with the robbers. Now go back into the forest, catch the fierce beast - the unicorn." - “If you please,” says Hans. “I can handle that one beast in no time!”

He took an ax and a rope with him and went into the forest. The beast itself jumped out to meet him: terrible, its fur stood on end, its horn like a sword. He rushed at Hans, trying to pierce him with his horn...

But the tailor dodged and hid behind a thick tree. The unicorn ran and stuck its horn into the trunk!

Now you won’t leave me,” said Hans. He threw a rope around the unicorn's neck and cut out its horn from the tree with an ax.

Hans brought the beast - the unicorn - straight to the royal palace. And when the unicorn saw the king in a red robe, he began to sniffle, wheeze, his eyes became bloodshot, his fur stood on end...

The king got scared and started to run. And all his warriors are behind him. The king ran far away - so far that he couldn’t find his way back.

And the tailor began to live and live in peace, sewing jackets, trousers and vests. He hung his belt on the wall and never saw any more giants, robbers, or unicorns in his life.

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In one German city there lived a tailor, his name was Hans. All day long he sat on the table by the window, legs crossed, and sewed. I sewed jackets, pants, vests.
One day Hans the tailor is sitting on the table, sewing, and hears people shouting on the street: “Jam! Plum jam! Who wants some jam?
"Jam! - thought the tailor. - And even plum. This is good".
He thought so and shouted out the window:
- Auntie, auntie, come here! Give me some jam!
He bought half a jar of this jam, cut himself a piece of bread, spread it with jam and began to finish sewing his vest.
“Here,” he thinks, “. I’ll finish my vest and eat some jam.”
And in the room of the tailor Hans there were many, many flies, it was impossible to count how many. Maybe a thousand, maybe two thousand. The flies smelled the jam and flew onto the bread.
“Flies, flies,” the tailor tells them, “who called you here?” Why did they attack my jam?
But the flies don’t listen to him and eat the jam. Then the tailor got angry, took a rag, and as soon as he hit the flies with the rag, he killed seven flies at once.
- Is that how brave I am? - said the tailor Hans. “The whole city should know about this.” What about the city? Let the whole world know! I’ll make myself a new belt and embroider on it in large letters: “When I’m angry, I kill seven.”
So he did. Then he put on a new belt, put a piece of curd cheese in his pocket for the road and left the house.
Right at his gate he saw a bird entangled in a bush. The bird fights, screams, but cannot get out. Hans caught the bird and put it in the same pocket where he had the curd cheese.
He walked and walked and finally came to a high mountain. He climbed to the top and saw a giant sitting on the mountain and looking around.
“Hello, buddy!” tailor Hans says to him. - Let's go travel around the world with me.
“What a friend you are to me,” the giant answers. “You are weak, small, and I am big and strong.” Leave while you're still alive.
- Did you see this? - says the tailor Hans and shows the giant his belt. And on Hans’s belt is embroidered in large letters: “When I’m angry, I kill seven.”
The giant read it and thought: “Who knows, maybe he really is a strong man. We need to try it."
The giant took a stone in his hands and squeezed it so tightly that water flowed from the stone.
“Now try to do it,” said the giant.
- That's all? - says the tailor. - Well, for me this is an empty matter.
He slowly took a piece of cream cheese out of his pocket and clenched it in his fist. Water poured out of the fist onto the ground.
The giant was surprised at such strength, but decided to test Hans again. He picked up a stone from the ground and threw it into the sky. He threw it so far that the stone was no longer visible.
“Come on,” he says to the tailor, “try this too.”
“You throw high,” said the tailor. “And yet your stone fell to the ground.” So I’ll throw a stone straight into the sky.
- He put his hand in his pocket, grabbed the bird and threw it up. The bird soared high, high into the sky and flew away.
- What, buddy, what's it like? - asks the tailor Hans.
“Not bad,” says the giant. “But now let’s see if you can carry a tree on your shoulders.”
He led the tailor to a large felled oak tree and said:
- If you are so strong, then help me take this tree out of the forest.
“Okay,” the tailor answered, but thought to himself: “I am weak, but smart, and you are strong, but stupid. I will always be able to deceive you."
And he says to the giant:
- You just put the trunk on your shoulders, and I will carry all the branches and twigs. After all, they will be heavier.
-So they did.
The giant put the trunk on his shoulders and carried it. And the tailor jumped onto a branch and sat astride it. The giant drags the entire tree on himself, and even a tailor to boot. But he can’t look back. The branches are in his way. Tailor Hans rides on a branch and sings a song:

How did our guys go?
From the gate to the garden...

The giant dragged the tree for a long time, finally got tired and said:
- Listen, tailor, I’ll throw the tree to the ground now. I'm very tired. Then the tailor jumped from the branch and grabbed the tree with both hands, as if he had been walking behind the giant all along.
“Oh, you,” he said to the giant, “you’re so big, but apparently you don’t have much strength.”
They left the tree and moved on.
They walked and walked and finally came to a cave. There, five giants were sitting around the fire, and each had a roasted lamb in their hands.
“Here,” says the giant who brought Hans, “this is where we live.” Climb onto this bed, lie down and rest.
The tailor looked at the bed and thought:
“Well, this bed is not for me. Too big."
He thought so, found a darker corner in the cave and went to bed. And at night the giant woke up, took a large iron crowbar and hit the bed with a swing.
“Well,” said the giant to his comrades, “now I’m rid of this strong man.”
All six giants got up in the morning and went into the forest to chop wood. And the tailor also got up, washed, combed his hair and followed them. The giants saw Hans in the forest and got scared.
“Well,” they think, “if we didn’t even kill him with an iron crowbar, now he’ll kill us all.”
And the giants fled in different directions.
And the tailor laughed at them and went wherever he wanted.
He walked and walked and finally came to the royal palace. There, at the gate, he lay down on the green grass and fell fast asleep.
And while he was sleeping, the royal servants saw him, bent over him and read the inscription on his belt: “When I am evil, I kill seven.”
“This is how the strong man came to us,” they said, “We must report him to the king.”
The royal servants ran to their king and said:
- A strong man lies at the gates of your palace. It would be nice to hire him. If there is a war, he will be useful to us.
The king was delighted.
“That’s right,” he says, “call him here.”
The tailor got some sleep, rubbed his eyes and went to serve the king.
He serves one day, then serves another. And the royal soldiers began to say to each other:
- What good can we expect from this strongman? After all, when he is angry, he kills seven. That's what it says on his belt.
They went to the king and said:
“We don’t want to serve with him.” He'll kill us all if he gets angry. Release us from service.
And the king himself already regretted that he had taken such a strong man into his service.
“What if,” he thought, “this strong man will really get angry, kill my soldiers, hack me to death and sit in my place. How can I get rid of it?
He called the tailor Hans and said:
- In my kingdom, in a dense forest, there live two robbers, and both of them are so strong that no one dares to come close to them. I order you to find them and defeat them. And to help you I give a hundred horsemen.
“Okay,” said the tailor. “When I’m angry, I kill seven.” But I can deal with just two robbers in jest.
And he went into the forest. And a hundred royal horsemen galloped after him.
At the edge of the forest the tailor turned to the riders and said:
- You, horsemen, wait here, and I can handle the robbers alone.
He entered the thicket and began to look around. He sees two robbers lying under a large tree, snoring so much in their sleep that the branches sway above them.
The tailor, without thinking twice, filled his pockets full of stones, climbed a tree and began throwing stones from above at one robber. It will hit him in the chest, then on the forehead. But the robber snores and hears nothing.
And suddenly one stone hit the robber on the nose. The robber woke up and pushed his comrade in the side:
- Why are you hitting me?
“What are you talking about,” says another robber. “I’m not hitting you, you obviously dreamed.”
And again they both fell asleep.
Then the tailor began to throw stones at the other robber.
He also woke up and began shouting at his comrade:
- Are you throwing stones at me? Crazy?
Yes, how he will hit his friend on the forehead. And that one is his. And they began to fight with stones, sticks and fists.
And they fought until they killed each other to death.
Then the tailor jumped out of the tree, went out to the edge of the forest and said to the riders:
- It is done. Both were killed. Well, these robbers are evil - they threw stones at me, and swung their fists at me, but what can they do with me? After all, when I’m angry, I kill seven.
The royal horsemen rode into the forest and saw: right, two robbers were lying on the ground, lying and not moving - both were killed.
Tailor Hans returned to the palace to the king. And the king was cunning. He listened to Hans and thought:
“Okay, you dealt with the robbers, but now I’ll give you such a task that you won’t survive.”
“Listen,” the king says to Hans, “go back into the forest and catch the fierce unicorn beast.”
“If you please,” says the tailor Hans, “I can do that.” After all, when I’m angry, I kill seven. So I can deal with just one unicorn in no time.
He took an ax and a rope with him and went into the forest again.
Tailor Hans did not have to look for the unicorn for long: the beast itself jumped out to meet him - terrible, its fur stood on end, its horn sharp as a sword.
The unicorn rushed at the tailor and wanted to pierce him with its horn, but the tailor hid behind a tree. The unicorn ran and slammed its sharp horn into the tree. He rushed back, but couldn’t pull him out.
- Now you won’t leave me! - said the tailor, threw a rope around the unicorn’s neck, cut out its horn from the tree with an ax and led the animal on the rope to the king.
Brought the unicorn straight to the royal palace.
And the unicorn, as soon as he saw the king in a golden crown and a red robe, began to sniffle and wheeze. His eyes are bloodshot, his fur stands on end, his horn sticks out like a sword.
The king got scared and started to run. And all his warriors are behind him. The king ran far away, so far that he couldn’t find his way back.
And the tailor began to live and live in peace, sewing jackets, trousers and vests. He hung his belt on the wall and never saw any more giants, robbers, or unicorns in his life.

The main character of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale “The Brave Little Tailor” was an ordinary tailor. However, the tailor had a cheerful character; this man did not know how to lose heart. One day he made himself a sandwich with jam and flies flew to the sweet delicacy. The little tailor grabbed a rag and hit the flies. With one blow he killed seven flies at once.

Pleased with the successful blow, the little tailor sewed himself a belt, on which he embroidered a large inscription stating that he had killed seven with one blow. After this, the little tailor thought that the whole world should know about his feat, and he set off on a journey. He only took a piece of cheese with him, and he also caught a bird in the bushes, which he put in his pocket.

On the way, he met a giant and wanted to make friends with him, but the giant treated him with disdain. Then the little tailor showed the giant the inscription on his belt about the seven killed. After that they began to measure their strength. First, the giant squeezed a stone in his fist and squeezed water out of it. In response, the tailor squeezed the cheese in his hand and juice flowed from his fist. Then the giant threw a huge stone high. To this the little tailor said that he would throw the stone so that it would not return to the ground. He took the bird he had caught earlier from his pocket and threw it up. The bird flew away and did not return.

The giant respected the little tailor and invited him to visit. He led him to a cave where other giants lived. When it was time to sleep, the little tailor was taken to the giant's bed, where he perched himself in the very corner. And at night the giant broke the bed with a huge crowbar, wanting to kill the little strongman. But the little tailor slept in the corner of the bed and remained safe and sound. In the morning the giants saw that the man remained alive after the terrible blows and ran away in fear.

He began to come up with various impossible tasks, promising in return to give the tailor half of the kingdom and his daughter. But the brave tailor coped with all the tasks: he killed two giants, quarreling them with each other, and also caught a unicorn and a wild boar by cunning. The king had to fulfill his promise - to marry his daughter to the tailor and give away half of the kingdom.

The king's daughter found out that her husband was an ordinary tailor and complained to her father. He ordered the servants to secretly grab the tailor while he was sleeping, tie him up and send him on a ship to distant lands. But the little tailor managed to find out about the king’s plan. When the servants came for him, he began to loudly list all his exploits and the servants ran away in fear. No one ever touched the little tailor again.

This is the summary of the tale.

The main idea of ​​the Brothers Grimm fairy tale “The Brave Little Tailor” is that the word has enormous power; it influences people. The little tailor accidentally killed seven flies, but afterward he presented this event to other people in such a way that they feared and respected him.

The fairy tale “The Brave Little Tailor” teaches you to be self-confident, show dexterity and ingenuity. The little tailor managed to defeat formidable giants, ferocious animals and the king's servants only through ingenuity and self-confidence.

In the Brothers Grimm fairy tale, I liked the main character, the brave little tailor. He is a confident person, full of optimism and energy. The little tailor managed to transform from an ordinary tailor into a king in a short time, for which he showed remarkable ingenuity and courage.

What proverbs fit the fairy tale “The Brave Little Tailor”?

Confidence must be groundless.
It is not the multitude, but the courage that wins.
Where you can’t take it by force, you need ingenuity.