Picture Books and Fairy Tales • Literature for children
Braća i blago: Hrvatska narodna pripovijetka
The story was published by Mijat Stojanović in his book Folk Tales and Poems, published in 1867. Along with it, Stojanović noted: "In Samac from the merchant Marko from Kobaš, grad. krajina year 1835."
The writer in this real-life fairy tale, as in her other stories, is both a teacher and a prophetess. It describes the bat, our distant mammalian relative that flies out at dusk and flies at night.
A fairy tale about a distant and fantastic world that is slowly dying, about its inhabitants whose hearts have hardened and about the fearless boy Damjan who will bring faith, hope and inspiration for the good and noble to that world.