Our Fairy Tales

Evening Star Colegiul National "Grigore Moisil" TEAM TWO

Scene 1: This scene happens in a typical Romanian house, with Catalina, a teenager from a wealthy family.

Mara: There was as in the fairy tales, As ne’er in the time’s raid, There was, of famous royal blood A most beautiful maid. *camera goes slowly from Mara towards Delia* She was her parents’ only child Bright like the sun at noon, Like the Virgin midst the saints And among the stars the moon. *camera goes on Mona, who is at the window*

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Mona: This is the most beautiful girl I’ve ever seen. Being up here in the sky and not next to her kills me.

(Delia wakes up and sees Mona staring at her from the window).

Delia: What is that peculiar light shining at my window?

Descend to me, Evening-star and enter my dwelling and my mind.

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Mona: I would, my dear, but stop shaking the ladder if you

Scene 2: Mara: And to her room with her slow steps He bears his steps and aims Weaving out of his sparkles cold A toil of shaking flames.

And when she throws upon her bed Her tired limbs and reposes, He glides his light along her hands And her sweet eyelash closes.

And from the mirror on her shape A beam has spread and burns, On her big eyes that beat though closed And on her face that turns.

Delia: Oh Evening star! I felt lonely in your absence.

Mara: Then the Evening star appears from the distant universe.

Mona: Come here, my wonderful treasure And leave your world aside Because I’m a star from above And you shall be my bride.

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Delia: But how do I trust you?

Come here on this temporal earth, Be mortal as I am!

Mona: I’d lose my immortality For one kiss of yours I’d leave all I am just to be with you.

Mara: And the Evening star flew far far away , Loving a human soul He went on for a day To reach his goal.

Mona: I’ve come from chaos And as I have been brought to life I crave for rest Father, undo me, and forever be praised in the whole world!

Anisia: Evening-star, that came from the depths Do not ask for signs and miracles That have no name or form You want to count among men Take their resemblance in vain But if the whole mankind would die Man will be born again Mona: But I fell in love with a living woman who gives me everything immortality can’t Anisia: Here we know neither time nor space, Death we have never known I can give you everything, but I cannot give you death For who do you want to die?

Just go and see what’s worth, all that is waiting for you out there on the wondering Earth Scene 3: This scene introduces Catalina meeting Catalin, a typical young man living nearby. The Evening-star sees them and gets hurt.

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Mara: Meanwhile, the house-boy, Catalin looks at her and thinks: Radu: How beautiful she grew!...A flower just to pluck.

Mara: Now, Catalin takes his chance and tries his luck Radu: I don’t want to stay away From thoughts that have no fun I want to only see you laugh Give me a kiss, just one!

Delia: Please forgive me, but my heart belongs to the Evening-star for whom I’ve kept my strong desire.

Radu: Just give me a chance and you’ll feel paradise!

Delia: The only one who can show me paradise is the Evening-star because he actually lives there.

Radu: When we’ll kiss, you’ll forget all about him, since the sky’s full of stars, but I am just one.

Mara: And so Catalina and Catalin kiss under the shining day, while the Evening Star was watching them.

Scene 4: Mara: Filled with sadness, the Evening Star ran away from the girl he once loved, but she didn’t know the mistake she made.

Delia: Evening star, come down and bless me with a beautiful life.

Mara: The Evening star came one last time to say goodbye to the mortal world and to all the girl meant for him.

Mona: I wanted to give you hope and knowledge But everything you ever loved

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Was the death of all the living And the pain it evoked.

Living in your narrowness Luck rules over you But in my steady world I feel cold and true.

So for that I can only bless you with the poor life you’ve chosen, Because all the knowledge in the world can’t fix someone who’s broken.

(Mona cries) Mara: And the Evening star ran off the skies he was born in, so the next day Catalina married off Catalin, the boy she had chosen. *camera shows Catalin and Catalina about to say their vows* Delia: I, Catalina, promise to love you, to be your best friend, to encourage and inspire you and to comfort you in times of sorrow and struggle.

Radu: I, Catalin, affirm to love you as I invite you to share my life. You are the most beautiful and smart person I have ever seen and I promise to cherish you every day.

Anisia: You may now kiss the bride. You’re now bonded in the sacred act of marriage Mara: And the bride and groom lived forever in a world of time, whilst the Evening star returned to the unsettling night.

Scene 5: Anisia: And so the story of the star’s love remains eternal, To remind us all of the losses we face every day, Because the Evening star was a genius that could not be understood by a normal human, Because Catalina was a girl that rushed to find true love, Because Catalin was a boy that loved charming his way onto success, And because God, I, always knows what’s going to happen, be it good or bad.

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Mara: So now, you kids, heard the story of the Evening-star, proving that even the deepest love can fade away.

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The Hermit Philosopher LEPL Tbilisi N207 Public School

There was once a wise man who loved solitude and lived far away from other men, meditating on the vanities of the world. He spent nearly all his time in the open air, and he could easily do this, for he lived in a lovely southern land where there is no winter and but little rain. As he wandered once among the verdure of his garden, the sage stopped before an aged walnut tree covered with ripening nuts and said: ‘’Why is there such a strange want of symmetry in nature? Here, for instance, is a walnut tree a hundred years old, hiding its top in the clouds, and yet how small is its fruit: itself it grows from year to year, but its fruit is always of the same size.

Now, on the beds at the foot of the tree there grow great pumpkins and melons on very small creeping plants. It would be more fitting if the pumpkins grew on the walnut trees and the walnut on the pumpkin beds. Why this want of symmetry nature?’’

The sage thought deeply on the subject, and walked in the garden for a long time, till a last he felt sleepy. He lay down under the shady walnut tree, and was soon slumbering peacefully. In a short time, he felt a slight blow on the face, then a 6

second, and then a third. As he opened his eyes, a ripe walnut fell on his nose. The sage leaped to his feet, and said: ‘’Now I understand the secret of nature. If this tree had borne melons or pumpkins, my head would have been broken. Henceforth let no one presume to find fault with Providence.’’

The Flea and the Ant Georgian folk fairy tale

A flea and an ant became friends. They went for a walk together. They came to a stream. The flea said to the ant, “I am going to jump across, and you?”

“I will jump across too!” said the ant.

The flea jumped across to the other side, but the ant fell into the water. The ant asked the flea, “Dear flea, my sister, help me, do not let me perish. Let me climb out of the water.”

The flea – hop-hop came running to the pig and asked, “Pig, give me a bristle please, and I will plait a little rope. I will throw it into the water, and I will pull out my little brother ant”.

The pig said, “And will you bring me acorns?”

The flea – hop-hop came running to the oak and asked: 7

“Oak tree, give me acorns please, I will carry them to the pig, the pig will give a bristle, I will plait a little rope, I will throw it in the water and pull out my brother ant”.

The oak tree said, “But will you drive a crow off me?”

The flea – hop-hop came running to the crow and asked: “Crow, leave the oak tree please, the oak will give me acorns, I will carry them to the pig, the pig will give a bristle, I will plait a little rope, I will throw it in the water and pull out my brother ant”.

The crow said, “But will you bring me a chick?”

The flea – hop-hop came running to the brood hen and asked: “Brood hen, give me a chick, I will carry it to the crow, the crow will leave the oak tree, the oak give me acorns, I will carry them to the pig, the pig will give a bristle, I will plait a little rope, I will throw it in the water and pull out my brother ant” The brood hen said, “But will you bring some millet?”

The flea hop-hop came to the hole: “Hole, give me some millet please, I will carry it to the brood hen, she will give me a chick, I will carry it to the crow, the crow will leave the oak tree, the oak give me acorns, I will carry them to the pig, the pig will give a bristle, I will plait a little rope, I will throw it in the water and pull out my brother ant” The hole said, “But will you off the mouse away from me?”

The flea hop-hop came galloping to the mouse: “Mouse, leave the hole, please, the hole will give me millet, I will carry it to the broom hen, she will give me a chick, I will carry it to the crow, the crow will leave the oak tree, the oak give me acorns, I will carry them to the pig, the pig will give a bristle, I will plait a little rope, I will throw it in the water and pull out my brother ant.”

The mouse said, “But will you save me from the cat?”

The flea hop-hop came galloping to the cat:

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Cat, please, don’t run after the mouse, the mouse will leave the hole, the hole will give me millet, I will carry it to the broom hen, she will give me a chick, I will carry it to the crow, the crow will leave the oak tree, the oak give me acorns, I will carry them to the pig, the pig will give a bristle, I will plait a little rope, I will throw it in the water and pull out my brother ant.”

The cat said, “But will you bring me some milk?”

The flea hop-hop came galloping to the cow: “Cow, please, give me some milk, I will carry it to the cat, the cat will not run after the mouse, the mouse will leave the hole, the hole will give me some millet, I will carry it to the broom hen, she will give me a chick, I will carry it to the crow, the crow will leave the oak tree, the oak give me acorns, I will carry them to the pig, the pig will give a bristle, I will plait a little rope, I will throw it in the water and pull out my brother ant.”

The cow said, “But will you bring me some grass?”

The flea hop-hop ran to the field, he picked some grass and brought it to the cow.

The cow gave him some milk. He carried it to the cat, the cat stopped running after the mouse, the mouse left the hole, the hole gave him some millet, he carried it to the brood hen. The hen gave him a chick, he carried it to the crow. The crow left the oak tree, the oak tree gave him some acorns, he carried the acorns to the pig, the pig gave him a bristle. The flea plaited a little rope from the bristle and threw it into the water. The ant climbed onto the rope, the flea pulled the rope, he pulled out his little brother ant onto the bank and saved him from death. Then they went for a walk again.

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Magic Garden and the Witch Beşiktaş Atatürk Anatolian High School

Once upon a time there was a great and big king and his lovely child Prince Lucas.

They were so so happy with their life and they have wonderful flowers in their garden even magicful ones. Prince Lucas was very curious young man so he often goes and takes a look to the flowers. He saw a woodsman and his daughter. They were standing and watching a bird which was talking to a flower. They couldn’t believe in their eyes because they were talking. It was a magical bird and flower. They decided to get the flower directory... The king screamed: stop! Who are you and what are you doing in my flower garden. Woodsman's daughter said: We saw a witch while we were cutting some logs, she told us if you bring me a magical flower I can make you a potion that can make you cut logs 10 times faster. Woodsman said: I asked her where can I find a magical flower, and she said follow down this stream to find a garden, you can find magical flowers there. The woodsman and his daughter looked at each other terrified. The king said "you saw a witch? There isn't any witch in my garden! Are you lying just to save your heads being cut from your bodies?!" The woodsman said "No sir. There was a witch. We saw a witch!" The woodsman said, no my king we have already seen it, its very scary. She changes her color according to the color of roses the woodsman and his daughter have one choice, accept that. But his daughter doesn’t accept that like her father. She showed air stream with her hand. She said 'look our aura. It is so scary. There is a witch in your garden!' The prince is getting angry and he didn’t know what he need to do. He left there. He had to talk with his mother, queen. Then he saw a beautiful rose. He affected so much but this world was magical. This magic was belonged to witch.

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ŞAHMERAN Beşiktaş Atatürk Anatolian High School

The legend of Şahmeran comes from Mesopotamia. It has been told and retold in Mardin for hundreds and hundreds of years. The name “Şahmeran” actually comes from the Persian name “Şah-ι Meran,” which means “the shah of the snakes”. Şahmeran was half a snake and half a very beautiful woman. She was a snake from the waist down, but from the waist upwards, a beautiful woman. Her portraits are traditionally hung on walls inside houses especially on girls’ bedroom walls. It is believed that hanging her pictures brings good fortune for them.

Once upon a time, there was a tall and handsome boy called Jemshab who lived in Mardin. One day, by mistake, he walked into a cave where thousands of snakes were sleeping. There he met Şahmeran. Jemshab couldn’t hide the fact that he was attracted to her although she was a snake from the waist down.

Jemshab remained in the cave for days on end, listening to Şahmeran tell incredible stories about the world and humanity. He was in awe, but when Şahmeran had told him everything and there was nothing left to tell, Jemshab decided that he was missing the outside world and left. Even though Şahmeran didn’t like this idea, in the end, she accepted it. So Jemshab returned to the land where he used to live.

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But one day, the king of that land got very ill. One of the king’s assistants who was quite evil told the king that the only treatment that would cure him was to eat a piece of meat from the body of Şahmeran. The search began. Anyone who might know anything about Şahmeran was asked to come forward. One day, as Jemshab was at the hamam, he was identified by soldiers who spotted snake scales all over his body. The soldiers brought him to the king’s evil assistant. It turned out – not surprisingly – that the wicked royal aide’s real aim was not to make the king better, but to hear about the secrets of the world straight from the mouth of Şahmeran.

Jemshab was tortured until he revealed the location of Şahmeran’s cave. So the assistant and the soldiers went to the cave and found Şahmeran who revealed her great secret, saying: “Whoever tears off a bit of flesh from my tail and eats it will be endowed with all the secrets of the world. But whoever takes a bit of flesh from my head and eats it will die instantly.”

No sooner were these words out of Şahmeran’s mouth than the villainous assistant cut the half-snake, half-woman into two pieces, and ripped a bit of flesh from her tail. Jemshab, horrified by what he had just witnessed, bit into a piece of flesh from Şahmeran’s head so as to die immediately. But what happened instead is that the king’s evil aide – having eaten a bite of Şahmeran’s tail – died on the spot while Jemshab appeared completely unaffected.

It turned out that Şahmeran had anticipated the king’s assistant’s plot and had seen to it that her lover, Jemshab, inherited all her knowledge, while her enemy went to his death. However, in the wake of Şahmeran’s death, Jemshab was so bereaved that he isolated himself away from the rest of humanity. Afterwards he is said to have become a legendary doctor, Lokman Hekim.

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The old woman and the lambs Hakama Secondary School

Narrator

: Once upon a time there was an old woman living in a pavilion with her lambs near a torrent of one of the valleys. It was the end of February, four days before it comes to an end, to be precise.

February is well known in the folktales and memories, to be a month of lots of rain, and rare sun!

Old Woman

: Wow! The Sun is rising with its warm rays__ How happy and excited I am! I will let the lambs free to roam in the pastures.

Finally Spring has come and the bitter cold Winter has fled.

I am feeling happy and thrilled, I shall therefore sing: "February has departed, In his backbones a big stick is darted"

Narrator

: Oh, God!! February is still there. He heard her singing and became very barmy with it. He called his motivated-to-come-cousin, March.

February

: O March, my cousin!

Three from you and four from me; Together, we'll let this woman sing; 13

While She and her lambs dribbling; Are you with me?

March

: Of course my dear cousin, anything for you!

Let's together show her what we can do.

Narrator

: So, the two months have united and decided firmly to revenge from this flippant and careless woman who did not show any respect to February and did not value the abundances of blessings of rain in it.

Then the wind blew with dark clouds, the sky frowned and overcast.

The rain was very heavy and fast. It lasted seven days and nights (Four from March and three from February) The great valley was quickly flooded as it was not before. The floods reached the old Bedouin woman pavilion and her lambs carried them away without mercy.

Here, the old woman sang:

Old Woman

: Here the dramatic sad story ends; O Floods carrying me and the lambs; "Carry them and their wombs gently; For they may drop what in the womb"

Narrator

: Here our story comes to an end with the old woman's pledge to the floods to gently carry her pregnant lambs away.

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The Prince Of Fine Arts Anatolian High School

In a country not far from here lived a prince who was a gifted artist in many areas. Nobody could write, paint and sing like him, so that he was called the "Prince of Fine Arts" everywhere.

Because he was almost as good at sewing as his Minister of Sewing, he had sewn a coat that was made of blue velvet and that he had decorated with the finest ornaments.

His seven ministers were very proud of him and said: Minister (Yasemin) "You can live well in a country like ours because the fine arts are so highly valued."

Unfortunately, there was also a jealous citizen who absolutely wanted this coat. Instead of sewing one himself, he crept into the castle and wanted to steal the coat.

He waited until night and the prince slept. Since there were no guards in the Land of Fine Arts because no one harmed the other, he passed unnoticed into the prince's bedroom, where the velvet coat hung over a chair.

Dad (Melih): "Just sleep tight and dream sweetly, this is my coat now and you can sew a new one,"whispered the thief, hanging a simple cloth coat over the chair and sneaking away.

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When the prince woke up in the morning and saw the gray coat, he cried: Prince (Eray): "What a warning of fate! The golden and silver ornaments have disappeared because I am no longer the best in the fine arts. I will call the citizens to a fair competition, and who is better than me should be a prince in the future.”

Now the citizens practiced the various arts even more eagerly than before The envious citizen, who had stolen the coat, sighed: Dad (Melih): “Now I can only wear the beautiful coat in secret. Not even my daughter can find out about it. Oh, poor fool.”

He pondered day and night how he could eliminate the prince and rule in his place, and so he had only bad dreams out of sheer hatred and envy.

One night he dreamed that he was in the precious coat went across a green meadow with lots of colorful flowers.

A stork circled above him, then there were two, then four, and finally the whole sky was full of storks.

They rushed down on him, pulled the stolen coat from his shoulders with their pointed beaks, took the golden threads and pulled them out so that all the ornaments disappeared.

Then they wrapped it in the coat and tied the gold and silver threads around the roll. So a large package was created with which they flew into a barren mountain range. Where the peaks were highest, they dropped him so that he fell and finally got stuck on a rock ridge.

He woke up and let out a loud scream.

Dad (Melih): "Help, I'm hanging on a rock over the abyss and falling straight down!"

His beautiful daughter, who had already got up and was preparing breakfast for him, heard his scream and hurried to the locked door.

Daughter (Sena): "Dad, you have just dreamed," she cried, shaking the door. Then she looked through the keyhole and saw the velvet coat with the gold and silver embroidery and how her father quickly hid it in the closet. She got scared and said: Daughter (Sena):"Daddy, please open the door for me, I'm sure you need help."

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Dad (Melih): "There's nothing to help here," grumbled the father.

Daughter (Sena): "Papa, please give me the coat. I think it's the prince's coat,” Dad (Melih): "There's no coat in the closet, and if there was one you wouldn't get it," said the father angrily.

And the father came out, grabbed his daughter, hung her on the belt on the door so that her feet no longer touched the floor, and went out of the house.

Now the poor girl was hanging on the door and could not free herself because the belt was tightening more and more. Suddenly she heard a rustling outside the window and four storks flew in. Two storks stood under their feet so that she could stand on them. The other two storks loosened their belts with their beaks and She was finally able to free himself.

Daughter (Sena): "Thank you, dear storks, what would have become of me without your help." She said when she was back on firm ground, the storks clattered loudly and threw gold and silver threads on the floor, which neatly into one The balls were wrapped, needles and scissors, and finally even a golden thimble, and then they flew out of the window with a tremendous flap of their wings.

In the meantime, singing, making music and theater were in full swing.

She saw the prince in his simple gray coat and was gripped by great love. She took the needle and thimble and asked to be allowed to embroider ornaments on his cloth coat.

But when she pulled the thread through the fabric, the needle sewed all by itself, castles and palaces, lute players and singers, dancers appeared as if by magic and turned the simple coat into a work of art.

Prince (Eray): "You can sew so wonderfully that I will appoint you Minister of Sewing," said the prince.

She then began to cry and told about her father Daughter (Sena): ” Heard some loud noises from my father’s room.

When I went to my father’s room i saw your coat on him. I tried to convince but he would not listen” Prince (Eray): “I have to forgive the theft of the beautiful daughter’s father” Prince send Eliquentia, the minister of the arts, into the house.

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Minister Eloquentia was able to speak so convincingly that the father came out and said: Dad (Melih): "Envy makes me angry, I very much regret what I did," Prince (Eray): "Insight makes you wise," Baba (Melih): "I wish nothing more than the hand of yours Daughter. " Prince (Eray): " Love makes you happy, please marry me" Augter (Sena): �Yes I would marry to you� she said giving the prince her yes.

The wedding of the princes was celebrated all over the country, and it was the most beautiful festival that had ever been held. And if you don't believe it, you should look at the pictures taken by the Minister of Photography. He is truly a great artist.

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