Kolobok

Kolobok (Cyrillic: колобо́к) is the main character of an East Slavic fairy-tale with the same name, represented as a small yellow spherical bread-like being.

[9][10] The character named Kolobok suddenly comes to life from such a creation, and escapes from the home of an old man and old woman (often referred to as a grandpa and grandma).

In the Ukrainian fairy tale version, the old man and old woman are very poor, and Kolobok is made with the very last food they scraped together to eat.

[4][3][2] Chased by the old man and old woman, the fairy tale's plot describes Kolobok's repetitive meetings with various animals (often a rabbit, wolf, and bear) who intend to eat it, but Kolobok cunningly escapes by distracting each animal with song, then running away before it can be caught.

In Irina Zheleznova's 1985 version he sings, "I was scraped from the flour-box and swept from the bin and baked in the oven and cooled on the sill.

"[3] In Christina Oparenko's version, he sings, "I was made from flour and yeast, I was baked in the oven, I shall run away from you.

[11] His name comes from Kobliha, which is the same doughnut as the Polish sweet pączki or Croatian, Bosnian and Serbian Krafne.

In the book Märchen und Sagen aus Hannover the Low German story "Dicke fette Pannekauken, blief stahn, eck will di fräten!"

has an identical plot, however at the end the "Pannkauken" (pancake) will meet hungry orphan children and so it lets itself be eaten.