Hungarian Folk Tales: The Diligent Girl and the Lazy Girl – VIDEO

Magyar népmesék [Hungarian Folktales] is a Hungarian animated series from the golden era of Hungarian animated cartoons. They form an iconic part of our culture, from the characteristic jingle to the educational messages. If you want to know about a nation, read or watch some of their folk-tales, they will bring you closer to their story 🙂

The Diligent Girl and the Lazy Girl: The stepmother sends the hard-working girl to serve somebody. After a year she returns home with gold, silver and other treasures. As the bad-hearted woman sees this she sends also her own daughter to serve somebody, but she is lazy therefore she returns home in thorn and bloodstained clothes.