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PRINCE IVAN AND THE FIRE-BIRD #Inspirational Moral
Stories
The tsar
was seething with anger. Many nights he’d seen a fiery, red bird
stealing
his golden apples. He told his son, Ivan, to catch the bird. When the
bird
came that night, Ivan managed to chase it away. Following it, he met a
magical
wolf, which carried Ivan to a castle. It told Ivan that the fire-bird was
inside.
But no sooner had Ivan touched its golden cage that he was caught.
Ivan
confessed everything to the king. The king said that he would give Ivan
the
fire-bird, but first he would have to bring to him the lovely princess,
Helen
the Fair.
The wolf
took Ivan to the castle where Helen was imprisoned. Ivan
succeeded
in freeing her but they both fell in love. So, the wolf hid the
princess
in the woods, while it took on the shape of the princess, and led Ivan
to the
king, who readily gave Ivan the fire-bird. Ivan left. The wolf took on
his
original form and escaped. It then carried Ivan and the princess to his
home,
where they got married. And the tsar was very happy to get the firebird
in its
cage.
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