chicken and chicken, only a black suit - that's so special?However, so many interesting things associated with conventional Chernushka, it's time to write about it a separate article.Say what you like, and black chicken - characters of fairy tales, superstitions and divination.
chicken - not a bird?
This disparaging remark does not apply to the black hen, but she also does not know how to fly, as well as her relatives.But, unlike other domestic birds, it is considered a mystical bird.Examples?Please.Some Scandinavian nations have a belief that black hen has a connection with the other world, and even feel its vibrations.That is why it allowed the cemetery in search of vampires.Village chicken on the grave - so, here is a ghoul, can only cook a stake.Many downers attach great importance to dreams in which there is laying hen with black plumage.Most often, it warns of impending trouble in the family or loved ones.
Some peoples of the Caucasus is still a tradition left over from pagan times, celebrate the New Year in the spring.Circassians, for example, call it a celebration not only as a day of sacrifice a black hen.Every family in honor of the holiday cut the bird.That black chicken as a sacrifice most pleasing to the gods of the sun and fertility.
little about the breed
Chickens black - it's not one breed.Poultry with dark plumage can be of different types and sizes.Especially popular Corydalis - laying favorite mistresses, who in addition also meat.Avstrolorpy, Minorca, Sumatra - it's also black chicken.Of course, their black feathers, meat and eggs at them - the most that neither is normal.Though not always.There is, for example, a special breed of chicken with black feathers, beak, legs ... and even with black meat, bones and entrails!By the way, it was known in the 16th century, so it is not the result of selection or mutation.One type of such a miracle - Chinese silky chicken that happy breed in Europe, however, more than a decorative purpose.And in China, its meat is considered a delicacy and sell very expensive.
fairytale characters
Written in the 19th century fairy-tale story of Anton Pogorelsky "Black chicken, or Living Underground" is popular to this day.Books with colorful pictures reprinted hundreds of times, went to the screen cartoons.Film Critics named masterpiece of children's cinema Ukrainian film director Victor Gres, shot in 1980 on a plot of a fairy tale "Black Hen".The content of such brief.The boy Alyosha, who lives in the guest house away from the parents, once saved from the knife cook Chernushka.It is, as usual, was not a simple chicken and magic, even the minister of the underworld.With this fabulous adventure begin.For his courage Alyosha receives award from the underground king: now he can know all the jobs are not teaching lessons.And then the boy is going through a real break with the character: he begins to talk back to teachers, play pranks and recorded.And then he will have to be corrected: his friend Minister does not approve of such behavior and deprives him of a magic gift.
That this is an unusual character of fairy tales and superstitions - ordinary black hen.
