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Rudolph Leopold Nickolos Lazare: An Old Peasant Folktale
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16160 |
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CULTURE
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6 / 1989 |
2,036 Words |
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Evelyn Witter
An award-winning writer of Czech descent, Evelyn Witter lives
in Illinois. She has taught creative writing at a local
college for more than twenty years. |
Folktales show patterns of feeling, thinking, and acting that are common to a social group and thus differ from country to country. This particular folktale originated centuries ago in central Czechoslovakia. Farming and crops were the peasants' main concern. Agriculture and mistreatment by overlords were frequent themes of Czech peasant folklore.
In this folktale, a farmer's understanding of human nature allows him to count on greed to solve a problem. This tale highlights the value of ingenuity and resourcefulness and encourages success through understanding, patience, and perseverance.
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Rudloph Leopold Nickolos Lazare was known as the most honorable farmer in all of Kalare.
What happened to this farmer could hardly be believed by the good people who knew him.
They talked about how on one day Rudolph Leopold Nickolos Lazare walked into town to see the rich merchant. He wanted a loan of money until the harvest in early fall. He was very poor because the crop was ruined by hail last year.
The poor farmer worried that his wife, Wilhelmina, their baby daughter, Kartrina, and their three sons (who were all named after their father) would soon have to do without the simple pleasures of life.
Just as Rudolph Leopold Nickolos Lazare put his foot upon the steps
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