The Tale Of The Modern Princess And Baba Yaga

2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43

- Hey, you, come out now!

A warlike maiden, with a twisted crown on her carelessly styled hair, screamed at full might under the door of the hut, at the edge of the forest. The old door opened with a creak and from there appeared a small old woman with a wrinkled face and gray hair covered by a hat …

- You again?!! I warned you that it is useless to come here. Your prince has lost his horse - a very important detail in your expectations and fantasies. Therefore, the chances have increased for those girls who do not need a horse at all, but just need a groom. The old woman peered into the princess's face.

- Did you draw your eyebrows? !! she said in amazement. - In which fairy tale was the princess with such eyebrows in the form of surprised worms?

- So now many do, this is the standard of beauty! - answered the princess proudly. - Papa brought an overseas artist and he paints eyebrows to all the ladies of the court, it is impossible to wash it with water.

“Have you decided the prince would like it?” And why are your lips swollen? - the old woman continued to look at the princess in bewilderment.

- The local beekeeper solves such problems. It is fashionable now too!.. - the princess answered loudly with pride in tone.

- Go away, otherwise I am afraid, looking more closely, to see something else terribly fashionable …

- Don't be impudent, old nag. This is not a competition for sarcastic sayings. How long will you torture me? It's time for me to get married. Papa announced a competition for the best groom from neighboring kingdoms. Seven applicants came to my hand, but the only one I was expecting was not. Your handwriting is visible in the spell imposed on marriage at my birth. So the time has come - chase the groom. I want a beautiful prince and to be on a beautiful white horse, in knightly armor, well, so that he is rich, and not some kind of rogue!..

- Ish you, as you rolled your lip!.. Well, one might say, literally and figuratively. You demand something every time. I'm not a goldfish for you!.. What are you, besides the fact that you bear the title of Princess? Why did you decide that the prince will love you? !! What is there in you that you can love for?

- So they love as a whole, and not for one thing! the princess said with pride in tone.

- Did you come to me entirely? !! Do you even think that you are something whole? !!

- I never thought about it … Once I got into this wilderness, so my arms and legs are in place.

- I came here without asking, once again, burst into the forest!.. You put forward your demands. And I am powerless before your spell!.. I can’t fix anything, because everything was and is in your hands!.. And it doesn’t matter who cast that spell twenty years ago, what matters is who you have become over the years ?!

- How do you, for example, understand the world around you? !! Are you accustomed to the fact that everyone is obliged to you everywhere!.. Your Highness, Your Grace! … Have you done at least something light and high in your life? You are silent … That's how you came into this world and that's it!.. Decided that it is yours? !!

- How do you understand your inner world? !! You don't even look at him. You just look in the mirror and that's it!..

- Go!.. And think about what you said. There is still time. Not everything in the world has the meaning that is attributed to it. Here you are - a princess, and your inner essence is without meaning and content. I am Baba Yaga. And for many centuries of my stay here, I never ate anyone, and people continue to fear and hate me … But once upon a time I was also a princess, but who remembers this now?.. I, too, a couple of centuries ago I was looking for a prince in the same way. And the wicked witch arranged for me an initiation ceremony, which, alas, I did not manage to pass. So I sit here, for many years, as an Old Woman or Baba Yaga, what's the difference now?.. The name does not change the essence, all the same alone, at the edge of the forest. But in fact, I am also a princess, only very old already …

- Does Baba Yaga interfere with your life? You manage well without me. True, you do mean things under the guise of good!.. You also cultivate an image of strange innocence. The face of this innocence will very soon be worse than mine!.. What are the lips and eyebrows alone ?! And now they are worth a lot … Make some grimaces when you try to capture the moment of your stay on Earth. All strive to copy someone …

- You think, even for a moment … After all, you, in your essence, are the only one!.. And there is no other such in this world! It is a pity that you understand these words in your own way. And you will not soon understand their true meaning!..