Visiting a Winter Fairy Tale

“If a fairy tale knocks on your door, you should let it in quickly, because a fairy tale is a bird: if you scare it off a little, you won’t find it anywhere. You go to the threshold after it, but it’s already gone… Only thousands of roads have scattered across the world…”
The collection includes winter fairy tales from the radio play collection of the Gosteleradiofond.

Contents:

THE STORY OF THE OLD CHRISTMAS ORNAMENT BALL
A new little ball didn’t want to climb into the box with Christmas decorations. The old ornament ball told it that its life might be short and related its story.

THE CREATURE-SNOWY-SNOW
In the forest settled a three-headed creature-snowy-snow that lets nobody into its domain. But if you come to it with kindness, it will share its forest treasures…

THE TALE OF THE DISAPPEARING SNOWFLAKE
It turns out that the big glass snowflake hanging on a wonderful New Year’s tree was once real and glittered in a snowdrift among billions of its sisters…

ICING CLOCKS
So that ice clocks wouldn’t melt in the warmth, they had to be told something winter three times a day—and strictly make sure that not a single warm word was mentioned in the story…

FUNNY SNOWBALLS. Radio composition.

THE SISTER-FOX AND THE WOLF
A fox sits, eats fish—along comes a wolf, too; he wanted to have a feast. And that crafty trickster taught him how to catch fish…

SILVER ANTLERS
In the Arctic Sea lives a bull-creature: horns to the sky, a coat made of ice, a hump on its back, and in it—ailments and diseases. Its horns are not simple—silver ones; whoever finds them will become the happiest person.

THE SNOW MAIDEN
Recording from 1982.