Brave Nazar
6 min · 5+ years · Armenia · Hovhannes Tumanyan
In the app, your child’s name stands where you see “Ani”.
In a village there lived a man called Nazar. He was so lazy that he lay about all day, and so timid that he never went out alone at night.
One day Nazar was eating bread and honey. Flies gathered on the honey. Nazar gave them one slap and began to count: “One, two… Oh my! A thousand flies with one blow!”
He was so proud that he wrote on a sign, “I am Brave Nazar, who strikes down a thousand with one blow,” and set off to see the world.
People read the sign and gasped. “A thousand with one blow! What a hero!” The news reached the King. The King sent for Nazar and said, “A tiger lives in our forest and frightens everyone. If you are so brave, help us.”
Nazar was shaking with fear, but too shy to say no. He went into the forest, saw the tiger, and scrambled up a tree. The branch creaked, and Nazar fell… right onto the tiger’s back.
The tiger got such a fright that he ran and ran, all the way out of the forest, and never came back. Everyone cheered: “Hooray for Brave Nazar!”
Nazar smiled, but he knew the truth: real courage isn’t luck, it is telling the truth. And you, Ani, already know that. Good night.
Retold by Oror from «Քաջ Նազար» by Hovhannes Tumanyan.