Week 14 Reading B:Russian Fairy Tales

Most of these stories end badly for everyone involved. The Soldier and the Vampire is one of the only ones that has a happy ending. It's also not the one that I would have wanted to have a good ending. The soldier in the story is not a very good person. He finds out how to bring the vampire's victims back to life, and then lies about having seen the vampire and makes the victim's family pay him to help them. I guess it might be a cultural difference, but that doesn't seem like the type of heroic action that would make him deserving of the happy ending he gets.

                      
                                                                  (Nosferatu)