Czech Republic

Opava

Mendel Grammar School

Karel Jaromír Erben Czech writer, poet, translator and historian 19th century Romanticism

Czech national folk songs, fairy tales and sayings

Kytice Collection of Czech national legends 13 poems World of myths Difficult moments in ordinary people´s lives

Vodník Daughter went to wash scaves to the pond She fell into the pond She became a wife of watersprite and had a son with him She can go to say goodbye to her mother Mother didn´t let her daughter go back to the pond Watersprite killed their son (Watersprite)

Polednice The child is crying Mother calls Polednice Polednice comes Mother is afraid about her child She unintentionally kills her child ( supernatural creature appearing during noon – said to take naughty children away)

Kytice Film We will perform the poem Polednice

Polednice The child is crying Mother calls Polednice Polednice comes Mother is afraid about her child She unintentionally kills her child ( supernatural creature appearing during noon – said to take naughty children away)

Polednice The child is crying Mother calls Polednice Polednice comes Mother is afraid about her child She unintentionally kills her child ( supernatural creature appearing during noon – said to take naughty children away)

Polednice The child is crying Mother calls Polednice Polednice comes Mother is afraid about her child She unintentionally kills her child ( supernatural creature appearing during noon – said to take naughty children away)

Polednice The child is crying Mother calls Polednice Polednice comes Mother is afraid about her child She unintentionally kills her child ( supernatural creature appearing during noon – said to take naughty children away)

Polednice The child is crying Mother calls Polednice Polednice comes Mother is afraid about her child She unintentionally kills her child ( supernatural creature appearing during noon – said to take naughty children away)

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