The Golden Cockerel Bell

The anti-crisis bell in the form of a spinning weather vane is a souvenir with a meaning: keep your nose in the wind, and catch your wind of luck at the right time.

"Put this bird," he said to the king, "on a spoke; My golden cockerel Will be your faithful watchman: If everything is peaceful around, Then he will sit still; But just a little from the side you will expect war, Or a raid of a warlike force, Or another uninvited disaster, In a moment then my cockerel Will lift its crest He will scream and start up and turn around in that place." The king of the Eunuch thanks, Promises mountains of gold. "For such a favor," he says in admiration, "I will fulfill your first will as mine." A cockerel with a high spoke Began to guard its borders. As soon as the danger is visible, The Faithful watchman will move as if from a dream, start up, Turn to the other side And shout: "Kiri-ku-ku. Reign, lying on your side!" And the neighbors were subdued, They no longer dared to fight"

A. S. Pushkin