>> It describes a conversation between an owl and a young >> widow. >> The owl tells the woman to tend to her children without tears, for he >> knows >> her husband well, they always dine and sup together. Every day he eats >> the >> man's liver and and every evening he drinks his eyes. > > Hence the lack of popularity of "Ukrainian bedtime folk stories for > children" (even transposed)! Actually there plenty of bedtime ones.
> (and yes, I know that the "real" Grimms' tales can be much more violent > than this). The country had been depopulated so many times that the percentage of folk-songs that mention young widows is simply hairraising. RT
