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«How Animals Ruled with People» — — the final tale of the world-famous collection of fairy tales created by Ivan Franko.

The cycle of fairy tales for children, united by the common title «When Animals Spoke», contains twenty works.

Fifteen of them were first published during 1896 and 1898 in the children's magazine «The Bell».

In 1903, a new edition of the collection was published, which included the last tale of the cycle - the fairy tale —«How Animals Ruled with People».

In Ivan Franko's fairy tales, human vices and shortcomings are embodied in the images of animals: greed, ingratitude, cruelty and impoliteness, cunning and laziness.

In fairy tales, animals with these character traits are always punished.

In contrast, the hard-working Donkey, the wise Hedgehog, and the unspiteful Hare always defeat the strong and cunning Lion, Wolf, and Bear. The Hedgehog, a slob, punished the cunning Fox for her treachery, and the kind and clever Blackbird found a way out of the threatening situation and taught the Fox a lesson.

The fairy tales ridicule evil, envy, rudeness, ill-manneredness and stupidity. The little birds, the Queens, did not allow the Bear to insult their dignity and force him to apologise, and the good-natured Crane taught his cunning cousin, the Fox, the same method.

In folk tradition, people who live by tricks, deception, at someone else's expense are never approved.

The performer: Lucia SvetlayaDuration: 0 hours 45 minutes 39 seconds