Волшебная шуба

The Magic Coat

A2 · Elementary · fiction · 8 scenes · Premium story

A retelling of the famous Kazakh folk tale about Aldar Kose, the clever beardless trickster. On a freezing winter steppe, poor Aldar meets a greedy bai in a warm fox-fur coat — and convinces him that his own ragged, hole-filled coat is magic. A simple, funny story about how cleverness beats greed.

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Characters

Aldar Kose (Алдар-Косе) — The clever trickster
The bai (Бай) — The greedy rich man

Vocabulary from this story

Алдар-Косе — Aldar Kose
бай — bai (rich man)
человек — person
друг — friend
бедный — poor
богатый — rich
умный — clever
хитрый — cunning
жадный — greedy
добрый — kind
старый — old
новый — new