Kanya: Belarusian Folktale of Kindness and Virtue
In a humble village in Belarus, there lived a poor man with his wife and three daughters. The youngest daughter, Kanya, was the most beautiful of them all, gentle, kind, and diligent. Her two older sisters were idle and proud, mocking her simple ways and good heart. Every morning, long before dawn, Kanya rose to fetch water from the well,
