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Creepy children's folklore

Creepy children's folklore- a collection of children's scary stories collected by Andrey Usachyov and Eduard Uspensky, released by the Rosmen publishing house in 1998. The idea for the book came about in 1993, when Ouspensky asked children on the radio to send him horror stories for children, which he would later release as a collection. As a result, he received over 1500 letters.

The book is a collection of so-called Pioneer horror stories, literary rewritten by the authors. This collection is a continuation of the idea expressed in the story "Red Hand, Black Sheet, Green Fingers" by Eduard Uspensky, released in 1992, and was originally only the second part of this book. Subsequently published separately. Although most of the stories are the actual product of children's folklore, the collection contains reworked versions of foreign horror literature, such as The Omen David Seltzer (English) Russian , Mask of the Red Death Edgar Alan Poe, stories about Sweeney Todde Hugh Wheeler or "one terrible Negro story about the Golden Hand" by Mark Twain.

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Critics consider the book primarily as an important work within the framework of children's folklore and modern Russian literature. The author's ironic comments and parody of epithets typical of horror stories were also positively noted, which creates an unusual combination of dramatic and ironic, characteristic of the work of Eduard Uspensky. For example, in one of the stories, the mother's hands fall off because she made pies from bad flour, and in the commentary to this fragment, Uspensky writes: "I would have been slapped for such pies." Also, some researchers associate this book with E. Uspensky's interest in children's folklore and fantastic stories, which is also seen in a series of works dedicated to the inhabitants of the fictional village of Prostokvashino

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Unconventional, irrational surreal creepy stories

Red Hand, Green Gun, Black Curtains... This is the most numerous and, by far, the most terrible branch of scary children's folklore. Creepy because in everyday life people never meet anything like this. With skeletons and vampires, we also do not often meet. But still we understand what a skeleton is, where it came from and what it wants. But what the Black Curtains want, whether the Phosphorus Man is alive and who his parents are, no one knows. And since no one knows, this is the worst thing. This is typical urban folklore. And the point here is not so much in paraphernalia, but in the new thinking of urban children who grew up far from cemeteries and were brought up in the spirit of atheism. Fenced off by concrete from nature and ideology from the truth of life, they seemed to have to forget about the heavy legacy of the past, about all these horrors and unusual things.

But a holy place is never empty. And the need for the terrible found new nightmares - inexplicable, seemingly devoid of any logic. As if, because there were still logic and reasons for the emergence of a new cycle of horrors. The date of appearance of these stories can sometimes be calculated with an accuracy of five years. Year 1934 and others. In almost all folklore stories, family members disappear at night: first - grandfather, then - grandmother, father, mother, older sister ...

After all, no one could explain to the little boy where in real life the family that lived in the next apartment disappeared. It was then that the Red Hand, Black Curtains, buses with black curtains and dungeons where people were cut to pieces appeared in our country. Not only the Stalinist "meat grinder" was reflected in these stories, but also the shortage - there are no curtains, except for black ones, no gloves, except for red ones, in stores. Without exaggeration, these stories can be used to study the recent history of the USSR. We thought for a long time on what principle to arrange these stories: by color, by biological, by size, and in the end we arranged them in order of increasing scariness.

Carpet with black hole

There lived a lonely and poor woman. One day she had a big fight with her mother, and the next day her mother died.

The woman inherited an old carpet, and even one with a large black hole.

Once, when the woman ran out of all the money, she decided to sell it.

I went to the market and sold the carpet to a young family with two children: a nine-year-old boy and a nine-year-old girl.

The father hung the rug over the bed. As soon as the family fell asleep and the clock struck twelve at night, human hands reached out from a hole in the old carpet. They reached out to their father and strangled him.

The next morning everyone woke up and saw the dead father. Soon he was buried.

On the same night, after the funeral, as soon as the widow and children fell asleep and the cuckoo clock struck twelve, long human arms emerged from the black hole again. They reached for the mother's neck and strangled her. The next day, when the children woke up, they found their mother strangled. Looking closer, they saw ten bloody fingerprints on the mother's neck, but they did not tell anyone about it.

Three days later, the mother was buried, and the children were left alone in the house. They agreed not to sleep that night.

As soon as the clock struck twelve, old human hands extended from the black hole. The children screamed and ran after the neighbors. The neighbors called the police. The police chopped off the hands hanging over the carpet with an ax, and burned the carpet itself in a fire.

After all this, it turned out that there was a witch in the black hole. And the woman who sold the carpet to the family disappeared somewhere. Then she was found dead in the woods with a broken heart.

White sheet

A mother and daughter lived. When the daughter grew up, she began to help her mother around the house: cook, wash the dishes and the floor. One day she was washing the floor and found under the bed, in the corner, a large stain of blood.

She told her mother about it. “Don’t wash this stain,” her mother told her, “otherwise you won’t see me again.” The mother has gone to work. And the daughter forgot her order, took a knife and scratched the stain.

In the evening, the mother did not return from work. The daughter was about to run to her, when suddenly they announced on the radio: “Close the windows and doors. A white sheet is flying around the city!” The girl quickly closed the door and windows. And soon she saw that a white sheet flew in front of her windows several times. The girl told the old neighbor about everything. And the old woman says to her: “The next time they announce it, don’t close the windows, but crawl under the bed. When the sheet flies into your apartment, prick your finger with a needle and put a drop of blood on the spot where the stain was. And instead of a sheet, your mother will appear. The girl did just that: as soon as the sheet flew into the apartment, she took a knife, cut a vein and dripped blood.

And in place of the sheet appeared her mother.

Green eyes

One old man, dying, decided to leave behind a memory. He took it and gouged out his eyes (and his eyes were green). The old man hung these eyes on the wall and died. A year later, a family with a small child moved into the house. Once the husband came home from work, and his wife said to him: “Our baby is crying something when I turn off the light.” The husband replies: "And you turn off the light and look at the walls." The wife did as her husband told her, and saw green eyes on the wall. His eyes flashed and electrocuted his wife.

Small witch

In one ancient castle near the Black Sea there was a pioneer camp. All night the children slept peacefully. But one day someone tickled the heels of one boy. The boy looked - no one was there, and fell asleep. The same thing happened the next night, the same thing happened the third night. The boy told the counselors about everything.

In the evening, the counselors lay down with him and warned him to shout when they tickled him. And the other guys were put near the switch. When the heels began to tickle, the boy shouted and turned on the light.

It turned out that it was a small (half a meter) witch. She pulled the boy's leg. And without opening the door, she went out.

Soon the castle was destroyed.

Statuette

One woman bought a figurine and placed it near the window, covering it with a large glass cap. This woman had a husband and a daughter. At night, when everyone fell asleep, the cap rose by itself and the figurine came out. She went up to her husband, tore off his head, and then ate it. There was not a drop of blood left on the bed. And the figurine fell into place under the cap. In the morning the woman woke up and, not finding her husband, she thought that he had been called to work at night. The next night, the statuette was eaten by the mother in the same way. In the morning the girl was frightened and ran for advice to a very wise grandmother. Grandmother told her: “This is all the work of the figurine that your mother bought. To kill her, take a black rag without a single spot and, when the figurine comes out from under the cap, tie it with this rag. Then she will be powerless. Then take it away (to the city, throw it off a cliff and see what happens! ” The girl took a black rag, but did not notice a small white spot on it. At night, when the figurine came out from under the cap, she tied it with a rag, but the rag was torn. The figurine was frightened and went back to its place. The next night, the girl prepared a black, very black rag without a single spot. The figurine was paralyzed. In the morning it was taken out of the city and thrown off a cliff. The figurine broke and turned into a jug. The girl went down from the cliff and looked at what there... And there were human bones.

Bus with black curtains

One day, mother sent her daughter to the store, which was very far away. At the same time, she said: "Do not get on a bus with black curtains for anything." The girl went to the bus stop and waited. A bus with black curtains pulled up.

The girl did not sit in it. The same bus came the second time. The girl did not sit in it again. But the third time she got on a bus with black curtains. The bus driver said, "Parents, let the kids go ahead!" When all the children entered, the doors suddenly closed and the bus started moving. At the turn, the black curtains closed. Terrible hands stuck out from the backs of the chairs and strangled all the children. The bus stopped and the driver dumped the corpses in a landfill. The bus with black curtains again went to kill children.

Green Man

One night there was a thunderstorm and the woman got up to close the balcony. I went to the balcony, and there was a green man sitting there. The woman was frightened, ran to her husband and told him everything. They came together to the balcony, but the green man was gone. Many others saw the green man that same night.

It turned out that one person was struck by lightning, but he did not die, but turned green.

red spot

In one class, a teacher fell ill and was replaced by a very strange woman. One fine day, a new girl appeared in the class, and the teacher immediately disliked her. When the girl came home, she saw a red spot on the wall. This spot was moving. There was a gun on the other wall. The girl, frightened, grabbed a gun and fired at the spot.

The next morning, a woman came to school with a bandaged hand and said that she had fallen. The next day the same thing happened again: the girl shot, and the next day the teacher came with her leg bandaged. When the girl returned home, there was no stain on the wall. She sat down to study and suddenly noticed that a small white dot was moving towards her. The girl fired. There was a cry, and the next day it was announced that the new teacher had died. It turned out that this was not an ordinary woman.

red boots

One day the girl began to ask her mother to let her go for a walk. And it was already evening. Mom did not agree for a long time: she had a premonition that something was about to happen. But the girl still begged her. Mom said that she should return no later than ten. At ten o'clock, the girl is gone. Eleven... Twelve... My daughter is still missing. The mother was worried. I was about to call the police. Suddenly - in the first hour of the night - the doorbell rings. The mother opened the door and sees: on the threshold are red boots, in which her daughter left. In them are hands, and in the hands of a note: "MOM, I CAME."

black piano

In one family, the girl was fond of music. And for her birthday, her parents bought the girl a black piano.

The guests gathered and asked the girl to play. When the girl began to play, she felt terrible pain and malaise. But her parents thought she was slacking off and made her play all evening.

The next morning the girl could not get out of bed. She melted right before my eyes. A few days later, blue spots appeared on her fingers. Parents decided to disassemble the piano.

They removed the lid, and there sat a terrible old woman who drank the blood of the one who played this piano.

Green record

Mom and daughter Svetlana lived in the same city. One day, a mother asked her daughter to go to the store for records. At the same time, my mother warned her not to take green records. A girl came to the store, and there all the records were sold out, only green ones remained. Sveta did not listen to her mother and bought a green record. She returned home and showed her mother this record. Mom did not scold her, but told her not to turn on the record when she was at home alone.

In the morning, mom went to work, and the girl was taken apart by curiosity. She disobeyed and turned on the green record. First, cheerful music played, then a funeral march began to play, and then the girl heard a voice: “Girl, turn off the record, otherwise trouble will happen to mom!” But the girl did not listen and did not turn off. In the evening, my mother came home from work without hands. She warned the girl not to turn on the record again. But the daughter did not listen and the next day she turned on the green record again. In the evening, my mother returned from work without legs. On the third day, one head rolled, and after - no one. The girl waited and waited and went to bed. At twelve o'clock in the morning, Sveta heard the knocks at the door. She got up and opened it... A black coffin with green upholstery drove into the apartment. The girl's mother was in it. Light got scared and went to bed. But green hands with long nails crawled out of the plate and strangled the girl.

red teeth

A new student entered a school. When all the schoolchildren were allowed to go home, he stayed after school. The technician tells him: “Go home, otherwise there are red teeth!” The boy says: "I'll look at the school and go." He walked around the school, went into one office and fell asleep. When twelve struck, red teeth appeared in the office. They rushed at the boy and ate him. In the morning, the guys came to the classroom and saw human bones. They called the police. They began to check everyone's teeth - no one has such teeth. We decided to check with the director. He has red teeth.

1. Introductory conversation:
- Most recently, you finished studying your first book - a primer. Read and learn the meaning of many words. Some of them are polite words. Remember them. What are these words? Name them: (Thank you, please, hello.)
- There are important words. (October, pioneer, peace.)
- There are native and close words. (Mom, friend, school.)
- But there is one word, the most precious, the most important for all people. Remember what the word is. Yes, this is the word home. What other word can replace the word motherland? (Fatherland, native side, fatherland, fatherland, fatherland.)
- When we pronounce the word homeland, each of us mentally imagines some of his own, dear and close to the heart corner of his native land. What do you imagine when you say the words homeland, my homeland?
Each person in his own way represents his homeland, that is, that corner of the earth where he was born, where he lived ...
2. The Soviet writer Yuri Yakovlev, speaking of the native land where he was born, wrote: “I was born in Leningrad on Marata Street, in a big house. We have three poplar trees in our yard. They seemed to me the tallest trees in the world.
There are many small rivers in our city and one large one - the Neva ... In our city there is also a sea - the Gulf of Finland. It starts in the city itself and is very shallow in places, and in the summer I walked in shallow water with bare feet - "the sea was knee-deep".
And yet our sea is real! Large ships set sail from Leningrad. The cruiser Aurora is on the Neva River. It was he who, in October 1917, gave the signal for an uprising with a formidable shot. The Aurora is called the ship of the Revolution. And my hometown is the cradle of the Revolution. And it bears the name of Lenin - Leningrad.
Here the teacher can tell about his small homeland.
3. After that, the children read the text of Yu. Yakovlev “On our Motherland” in a “chain”.
4. Repeated reading and analysis of what has been read.
- Read again the lines that say what small corners the homeland of each person consists of (reading the 1st and 2nd sentences).
- How does the author call the homeland of every Soviet person? (Little homeland.) Pay attention to the spelling of the word homeland. Why is it capitalized? (It denotes the place where a person was born, but it is not the whole country.) What does the author call our entire country? (“Our common, great Motherland.”) How do you understand the words common, great? Pay attention to how the word Motherland is now written? Why? (Here the word Motherland - in the sense of the country.)
- The Great Motherland is our country, our land, our Soviet state, in which we were born and live. These are its fields and forests, mountains and rivers, its cities, villages, towns. These are people who inhabit the corners of their native land.
How do you understand the expression "Motherland begins on the threshold of your home"? (She is next to you, in your house; you live in your native country, your whole country is your home, your homeland.)
- Can we say that our class, our school is also our Motherland? (Yes, more precisely - a part of our Motherland.) What does it mean to love your Motherland? How to understand the expression "to live one life with her"? How should you love your country? Why? (To love deeply, as they love their mother. There is only one homeland, just like every person can have only one mother, and, like mother, she can be kind, fair, caring, strict and exacting.)
- The people love their country. He gives his work to her, performs feats in the name of the Motherland, he composes beautiful songs and poems about her. Many proverbs and sayings have been created about our Soviet Motherland.
Here are some of them. Read them, match them with lines from Yu. Yakovlev's story.
Children read proverbs pre-recorded on the board: “Everyone has his own side”; "To live - to serve the Motherland"; “There is no more beautiful than our Motherland in the world”; "The native side is the mother, the alien side is the stepmother."
- Today we read a story about the Motherland and realized that this word can be called the native land, the place where you were born. And each person has their own place. But every Soviet person, the entire Soviet people also has one big, beautiful homeland - this is our country, the Soviet Union. When they talk about this, the word Motherland is capitalized.
5. - In his story, Yu. Yakovlev said: "The motherland begins on the threshold of your home." For him, Leningrad is his homeland. And the Soviet poet M. Matusovsky, the author of many wonderful poems, to whose words many composers created songs, speaks of his homeland in verse. Listen to them.
The teacher expressively reads a poem by M. Matusovsky by heart.
- What, according to M. Matusovsky, does our Motherland begin with? (From what you have loved since childhood.)
6. Reading a poem by children to themselves.
- How should you understand that the Motherland begins with a picture in your primer? What is dear to every person in his native land? The composer V. Basner wrote a song to the words of M. Matusovsky. Now listen to it and think about the mood it creates.
7. Listening to the recording of the song "Where does the Motherland begin? ..". Exchange of impressions.
8. Homework: memorize the poems of M. Matusovsky.

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