SprīdītisHERO OF LATVIA

Books of Sprīdītis.

Description of Sprīdītis (A span) Sprīdītis is a very small boy, he has a brown hat, a brown jacket, a grey shirt, old pants, pastalas (Simple footwear made of one piece of leather)

He has just a grandmother, who raised him andshe is nice and care for him.

He lives with stepmother and her children, andshe is always angry and makes him work as hardand as much as possible.

His job is to heard cows and carve woddenspoons

His aim is to find happiness in the world: to digout money, to build a castle, to marry a princess.

Wind mother and her sons.First task: to stand over the four sons of Windmother.

He failed but because he had a brave heart shegave him a magical pipe: while you blow in it, eveybody should dance.

Lutausis (lop-eared).The 2nd task: to liberate wood from Lutausis, who was a giant and everybody was afraid ofhim.

Lutausis has imprisoned 5 children who werepicking berries in the wood.

Sprīdītis took the pipe and started playing it.

Lutausis started to dance .

Lutausis got tired fast and asked for mercy .

Sprīdītis let him go but before that asked to promise not to scary anyone.

The Mother of Wood gave a magical stick: ifsomebody touches it, he will stick to it until youwon’t say: «I set you free!»

Sīkstulis (Miser).The third task: to endure 3 tortures to

keep the old man in Miser’s house.

Sprīdītis endured 3 tortures but theMiser did not want to keep the Old man in house. So Sprīdītis got mad and theystarted to fight. Sprīdītis used the pipeand the stick.

For that the Old man gave to Sprīdītis a magical ring: if you put it in and clapyour hands three times then the swanwill come and bring you to the Happyland.

Magical weapons: a pipe and a stick

Devil.

The 4th task: to fight with the Devil whowanted to marry a princess Zeltīte.

King promised, if he wins the devil, he can keepthe princess and a half of kingdom.

Sprīdītis won the devil using his magicalweapons and sent the Devil back to hell.

The princess was not happy because Sprīdītis was small and poor and she wanted to kill himby the help of witch but she failed.

Finding out the character of princess Sprīdītis decided to use a ring given by the Old man.

Home is the happy land Sprīdītis wassearching for.

Literaturehttp://www.aboutmeaboutus.ie/The-World-in-our-Classroom/Latvia/Fairytale-from-Latvia (Book in English language.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUjHLeimYLc (Sprīdītis song.)