I read the fairy-tale of Н.В.Golden-eye "Night before Christmas" This work is filled with magic. In this story there are magic heroes: devil, witch, Пацюк. Devil - stole a moon, a witch flew on sky, and Пацюк even contacted with a devil. There are some unusual requests in every magic work. And here too there was such request. Oksana asked Вакулу, that he got knee-boots to her, straight as for a tsarina Catherine II. Only then she will go out for him marry. In пред christmas night Солоха crammed in the sacks of Forelock, scribe, devil, Head. A forelock and Scribe appeared together in one sack, and devil and Head - in different. They then appeared in different places. We will go back to Вакуле. It was lucky him: in a sack a devil, and Вакула, was reached him straddled a devil and left to Saint Petersburg to Catherine II after knee-boots. A devil, when they arrived into place, became a horse, and Вакула jumped on a line to the tsarina. Then, when they arrived back, he gave a kick to the devil.Nobody disbelieved ito the eyes, when appeared Вакула, especially Oksana, because all thought that Вакула did away with itself. But all made off well - they married. Me it seems to, Гоголь used magic in this fairy-tale, because to do it was impossibly without him, because Christmas self magic.
