Cheerful locomotive Chu-Chukhin and his friends. Good fairy tales with fantasy elements
Fedir Tytarchuk
Here is a collection of children’s fairy tales.Setting: the “fairytale” area of the Poltava region, known for its supernatural attributes. In a forest, cut off from the rest of the world on three sides: by a river, a swamp and a ledge of rocks. Previously, there were military men there who suffered from the local supernatural, and therefore decided to leave these places, leaving all their buildings there. There was also an abandoned depot where lost trains settled for some time.
Cheerful locomotive Chu-Chukhin and his friends
Good fairy tales with fantasy elements
Fedir Tytarchuk
© Fedir Tytarchuk, 2024
ISBN 978-5-0062-5775-7
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Cheerful locomotive Chu-Chukhin and his friends.
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SYNOPSIS. What is this book about
Here is a collection of children’s fairy tales, united by:
– a single terrain on which events unfold;
– common heroes;
– events that, to one degree or another, follow one another and sometimes lead to the next story.
Thus, fairy tales can be considered both individual works and something whole.
Setting: a “fairy-tale” area somewhere in the Poltava region, an area known to be a haven of witches, evil spirits and filled with other attributes of the supernatural. In a forest, cut off on one side by a river, on the other by swamps, and on the north by a ledge of rocks from the rest of the world. Previously, there were military men there who had suffered from the local supernatural, and as soon as they had the opportunity to get out of there, they immediately left these places, leaving all their real estate there. There was also a depot, which over time began to fall into disrepair, like everything else in this forest, until wandering trains settled in it.
In the swamps, in a house abandoned by the military, stylized as a hut on chicken legs, lived an old woman – Baba Yaga, who considered herself an old resident of the forest, who melted spoons and forks from scrap metal, which she fished out abandoned steam locomotives from the swamp, and therefore was hostile to the appearance of steam locomotives. And since she was a vindictive and vindictive person, this enmity began to result in constant skirmishes and intrigues on her part.
A little about each of the fairy tales:
001. Like Baba Yaga, Chu-Chukhina wanted to melt the train into spoons.
Here we meet the two main characters – Baba Yaga and the locomotive Chu-Chukhin, who, having gotten lost in the forest, almost became a victim of an insidious old woman and was not melted down into spoons and forks, but thanks to the ingenuity and help of a hut on chicken legs (a military project abandoned in forest) he manages to escape from history.
002. How the little locomotive Chu-Chukhin saved Kolobchuk.
Kolobchuk is the hero of fairy tales, Kolobok, who now lives in the depot near the trains, but before he came to them, he suffered hardships and persecution from his grandmother and grandfather, who live just beyond the railway bridge across the river, and from the flattering brethren. And only the help of Chu-Chukhin, and the cunning of Kolobchuk himself, allowed him to get out of this mess. In this story, a cunning fox appears, which at the end of the fairy tale ends up in Baba Yaga’s house.
003. The story of the Ghost Engine and how Baba Yaga wanted to get to Chu-Chukhin.
Baba Yaga, already angry at the engines, persuaded by that very Fox, decided to get to Chu-chukhin, as one of the informal authorities in the depot, through witchcraft, calling to life the spirit of the engines from the Swamp of Old Engines. But her idea failed, since the ghost engine turned out to be not evil and took the side of the train.
004. How the engines met Alenka.
The girl Alenka, who was going to visit her grandfather and grandmother (they live across the railway bridge and who made Kolobchuk at one time), decided to take a shortcut and went through the forest and swamps. She met Baba Yaga and, naturally, she lured her to her place. Aleka ran away, hid in the swamps until the Ghost engine accidentally found her and took her to the depot with the engines.
005. How the trains looked for the magic fern at night.
Baba Yaga cast a spell on the engines and the only way they found to remove this spell was the color of the fern. It grew in a remote corner of the forest, in the abode of the Walking Oaks, and bloomed only once a year, just on the next weekend.
The engines performed a ceremony on the river bank and set off. From the other side, Baba Yaga and her cohort moved to the same place. In the clearing they collided. And it is not known how all this would have ended if the forest spirits had not intervened in this matter and kicked everyone out of their monastery. And only Maslenka the Cat, a mechanic at the depot, hid in one of the trees, waited for everything and in the morning brought a fern flower.
006. How the Cat Bayun wanted to help Baba Yaga!
Having complained in a letter to her old bosom friend Kot Bayun, Baba Yaga thereby summoned him to her. The cat assessed the situation and decided to shake off the old days, since he himself was from these places. Having come up with a plan, he decided to lull the locomotives to sleep, enchant them, as he did with the birds in the forest and in the swamp, and direct them towards the swamp, where Baba Yaga would be waiting for them. And everything would have been fine if I hadn’t taken with me two cats – Baba Yaga’s assistants, who ruined the whole event.
As a result, all three ended up in a box, drugged by valerian…
007. How the Chu-Chukhin locomotive helped to look for the scarlet flower.
The story is about how Chu-Chukhin the Engine decided to help an unknown man, whom his household (women) had driven out to the market, to sell his crops and buy gifts there, including a scarlet flower.
008. Conspiracy of the tailed ones.
The cats gathered in a secluded place and Kot Bayun offered them a model in which there would be peace in the forest, and they would be at work, managing this situation. Everyone was happy and happy, if not for the stupid cat Peach (one of Baba Yaga’s cats), who imagined too much of himself and his “star fever” did not allow these plans to come true.
009. History of Oaks-Khodunov.
The little girl Alenka (the granddaughter of the grandmother and children who live behind the iron bridge) went into the forest to pick mushrooms. They tried to dissuade her, but she went anyway. And there, among the abundance of colorful mushrooms, she accidentally met Baba Yaga, running away from her, she wandered into the lost places and was almost eaten by a carnivorous plant, but the Walking Oaks came to the rescue, fighting off and then telling their story, escorting her to a safe place.
010. Witches’ Sabbath and collision with trains.
The climax was the witches’ Sabbath, which took place in the swamps, at which Baba Yaga complained to her friends about the engines and they decided to attack the depot right away. Kot Bayun tried to settle the matter, but was sent on a voyage and therefore the battle took place.
000. Introduction…
In one difficult area that fits exactly between Poltava and Kiev, among swamps, ancient forests and abandoned military installations, wandering trains settled. Their appearance would not have aroused any particular interest in anyone if it were not for the evil old woman who lived in the Swamp of Old Locomotives and ran her business by melting rolling stock into spoons and forks.
Those places stood apart and were not listed on any map. Some attributed this to their witchcraft nature, and others saw it only in the recent stay of the military here, who, as you know, are in no hurry to put their objects on maps. But be that as it may, the military safely left these places, leaving behind all their buildings, a dozen railway crossings, several bridges over rivers and other utensils that were either forgotten or could not be used in the new place. It was in such a military facility, very similar to a hut on chicken legs, that the old woman, who was called Baba Yaga, settled, and who harbored a grudge against the traveling engines.
The engines sometimes interfered in forest or swamp affairs, but more out of ignorance or urgent necessity than for any other reasons, and this infuriated the old woman every time.
And the locals lived across the river. They lived here for a long time, at least they thought so themselves. They lived, but they clearly drew a line where they could enter without fear, and where it was better not to interfere. Therefore, if anyone wandered across the river, he returned from there with gray hair and a mass of fables, from which there were even fewer people willing to visit the forests and swamps.
The forest inhabitants only looked to outsiders as something single, monolithic, but in fact, even within this closed community, which tried not to let outsiders in, a stormy life was in full swing. Baba Yaga, after leaving the military swamps, called herself their successor, which the Walking Oaks, who had lived in these places for thousands of years and therefore considered Baba Yaga to be an alien, openly disagreed with. The forest and water inhabitants did not want change, having become accustomed to the life that had been here for centuries and therefore aggressively perceived any outside interference. The swamp spirits that settled in the local swamps lured passing locomotives with their spells of mechanical magic, and periodic damage and other witchcraft of Baba Yaga were neutralized by the manifestations of the magic of the local flora and fauna. To a large extent, the locomotives were simply lucky…
The histories that are given below just tell about the events that took place in this corner of the Poltava region, not mapped on any map, where, as you know, every second old woman is a witch, and every third cat is Bayun.
001. Like Baba Yaga, Chu-Chukhina wanted to melt the train into spoons
In one dense forest that grows somewhere near Poltava, away from the main roads, there is an old depot. Previously, it was used by the military, but then the military left and left everything as it was, taking only their locomotives and armored trains. But the civilian depots turned out to be unnecessary – they already had enough of their own. So the depot was left empty in the middle of a dense forest, fenced off from the outside world by huge trees, wide rivers and marshy swamps that stretch for tens of kilometers. At first, the depot was empty, but then, crossing three bridges as abandoned as the depot itself, wandering locomotives began to wander into it. Some moved on after spending only a short time at the depot, while others immediately liked the place and stayed to live here, and the depot became their home. But the locomotives were bored just sitting in the hangars; they loved to travel along the rails, accelerate, brake, carry cargo and passengers, and also sound their horn at the stops. Therefore, the locomotives first repaired the military telegraph, sent out telegrams to everyone asking them to send requests for transportation, and when such requests came, they gladly accepted them.
