Тіні минулого (адаптація, Клим Поліщук)

This article contains a MovaReader adaptation of seven legends from Klym Polishchuk’s Shadows of the Past (Тіні минулого, 1919), retold in simple modern Ukrainian. Old storytellers in Volhynia tell of a rock shaped like a Cossack colonel’s head, a hill raised by village girls, bells ringing under the earth on Easter night, Cossack lights on the Berestechko field, Grandfather Hunger at a forest spring, a treasure guarded by a Black Lady and a White Lady in a Christmas church. Level A2 suits readers who know the basics: sentences of about 10 words, past-tense narration and short dialogues. You will learn words for village life, church holidays, history and legends, comparisons with як and past-tense verbs with gender endings.