This is a summary of the world-famous fairy tale "Little Tsakhes, called Zinnober" from the Classics for the Lazy series. This is an instructive tale written by the famous German writer of the 18th century Theodor Hoffmann. The protagonist of the tale, the little freak Tsakhes, receives three hairs as a gift from a good sorceress, which should make his future life easier. The good sorceress took pity on the unfortunate baby and wanted to help him with all her heart. Thanks to the hairs, those around him perceived him as handsome and a genius, the best girls in the country wanted to marry him. But in his heart, Tsakhes remained as before an evil and envious dwarf. No one knows what he would have come to, what career he would have created, but the denouement came after the intervention of another good sorcerer. He was able to learn the secret of the dwarf and achieve the disappearance of all spells.