tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4552362093795845742024-02-20T23:52:46.083-07:00The Wise Crone's Cottage in the WoodsThe Wise Crone’s Cottage is a spot where the heart is opened and the spirit renewed. Together we’ll explore the ancient world of myth, legend and folklore. We’ll also look at contemporary films and stories that continue this tradition of fantasy and we’ll discuss the theories of Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell. wisecronecottagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06905728573029477284noreply@blogger.comBlogger99125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-455236209379584574.post-52377390339475321612024-01-29T16:52:00.004-07:002024-02-02T08:45:50.763-07:00"Tatterhood" - A Norwegian Folktale<p><i>Tatterhood is one of my favorite stories! This tale is rich and unexpected with many twists and turns. But what makes the story shine most is the character of Tatterhood - a very unlikely female heroine. In the upcoming weeks, we'll be exploring this story from an archetypal perspective on the "Wise Crone Cottage Podcast." But in the meantime, read the story for yourself, or better yet, read it to a little girl. Tatterhood has much to say to women of all ages</i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="TatterhoodCover" class="size-full wp-image-42248 aligncenter" data-attachment-id="42248" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"4","credit":"","camera":"Canon EOS REBEL T5","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1440600194","copyright":"","focal_length":"28","iso":"100","shutter_speed":"0.025","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="TatterhoodCover" data-large-file="https://kathytemean.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/tatterhoodcover.jpg?w=500" data-medium-file="https://kathytemean.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/tatterhoodcover.jpg?w=222" data-orig-file="https://kathytemean.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/tatterhoodcover.jpg" data-orig-size="600,811" data-permalink="https://kathytemean.wordpress.com/2016/02/06/illustrator-saturday-lauren-mills/tatterhoodcover/" height="335" src="https://kathytemean.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/tatterhoodcover.jpg?w=500&h=676" width="248" /><i>.<br /></i></p><p>Once upon a time there was a king and a queen who had no children, and
that made the queen very sad. She seldom had a happy hour. She was always
crying and complaining, and saying how dull and lonesome it was in the
palace. "If we had children there would be life enough," she said.
Wherever she went in all her realm she found God's blessing in children,
even in the poorest hut. And wherever she went she heard women scolding
their children, and saying how they had done this and that wrong. The
queen heard all this, and thought it would be so nice to do as other women
did. At last the king and queen took into their palace an adopted girl to
raise, that they might always have her with them, to love her if she did
well, and scold her if she did wrong, like their own child.</p>
<p>One day the little girl whom they had taken as their own, ran down into
the palace yard, and was playing with a golden apple. Just then an old
beggar woman came by, who had a little girl with her, and it wasn't long
before the little girl and the beggar's child were great friends, and
began to play together, and to toss the golden apple about between them.
When the queen saw this, as she sat at a window in the palace, she tapped
on the pane for her foster daughter to come up. She went at once, but the
beggar girl went up too; and as they went into the queen's apartment, each
held the other by the hand. Then the queen began to scold the little lady,
and to say, "You ought to be above running about and playing with a
tattered beggar's brat." And she started to drive the girl down the
stairs.</p>
<p>"If the queen only knew my mother's power, she'd not drive me out,"
said the little girl; and when the queen asked what she meant more
plainly, she told her how her mother could get her children if she chose.
The queen wouldn't believe it, but the girl insisted, and said that every
word of it was true, and asked the queen only to try and make her mother
do it. So the queen sent the girl down to fetch up her mother.</p>
<p>"Do you know what your daughter says?" asked the queen of the old
woman, as soon as ever she came into the room.</p>
<p>No, the beggar woman knew nothing about it.</p>
<p>"Well, she says you can get me children if you will," answered the
queen.</p>
<p>"Queens shouldn't listen to beggar girls' silly stories," said the old
woman, and walked out of the room.</p>
<p>Then the queen got angry, and wanted again to drive out the little
girl; but she declared it was true every word that she had said.</p>
<p>"Let the queen only give my mother something to drink," said the girl;
"when she gets tipsy she'll soon find out a way to help you."</p>
<p>The queen was ready to try this; so the beggar woman was fetched up
again, and treated with as much wine and mead as she wanted; and so it was
not long before her tongue began to wag. Then the queen came out again
with the same question she had asked before.</p>
<p>"Perhaps I know one way to help you," said the beggar woman. "Your
majesty must make them bring in two pails of water some evening before you
go to bed. Wash yourself in each of them, and afterwards throw the water
under your bed. When you look under your bed the next morning, two flowers
will have sprung up, a beautiful one and an ugly one. Eat the beautiful
one but leave the ugly alone. Be careful not to forget this last bit of
advice." That was what the beggar woman said.</p>
<p>Yes, the queen did what the beggar woman advised her to do; she had the
water brought up in two pails, washed herself in them, and emptied them
under the bed; and when she looked under the bed the next morning, there
stood two flowers; one was ugly and foul, and had black leaves; but the
other was so bright, and fair, and lovely, she had never seen anything
like it, so she ate it up at once. But the pretty flower tasted so sweet,
that she couldn't help herself. She ate the other one too, for, she
thought, "I'm sure that it can't hurt or help me much either way."</p>
<p>Well, sure enough, after a while the queen was brought to bed. First of
all, she had a girl who had a wooden spoon in her hand, and rode upon a
goat. She was disgusting and ugly, and the very moment she came into the
world she bawled out "Mamma."</p>
<p>"If I'm your mamma," said the queen, "God give me grace to mend my
ways."</p>
<p>"Oh, don't be sorry," said the girl on the goat, "for one will soon
come after me who is better looking."</p>
<p>After a while, the queen had another girl, who was so beautiful and
sweet that no one had ever set eyes on such a lovely child. You may be
sure that the queen was very well pleased. The elder twin they called
"Tatterhood," because she was always so ugly and ragged, and because she
had a hood which hung about her ears in tatters. The queen could hardly
bear to look at her. The nurses tried to shut her up in a room by herself,
but it did no good. She always had to be where the younger twin was, and
no one could ever keep them apart.</p>
<p>One Christmas eve, when they were half grown up, there arose a
frightful noise and clatter in the hallway outside the queen's apartment.
Tatterhood asked what it was that was making such a noise outside.</p>
<p>"Oh," said the queen, "it isn't worth asking about."</p>
<p>But Tatterhood wouldn't give in until she found out all about it; and
so the queen told her it was a pack of trolls and witches who had come
there to celebrate Christmas. So Tatterhood said that she would just go
out and drive them away. In spite of all they could say, and however much
they begged and asked her to leave the trolls alone, she just had to go
out and drive the witches off. She begged the queen to be careful and keep
all the doors shut tight, so that not one of them would open the least
bit.</p>
<p>Having said this, off she went with her wooden spoon, and began to hunt
out and drive away the hags. All the while there was such a commotion out
in the gallery that the like of it had never before been heard. The whole
palace creaked and groaned as if every joint and beam were going to be
torn out of its place. Now I can't say exactly what happened; but somehow
or other one door did open a little bit, and her twin sister just peeped
out to see how things were going with Tatterhood, and put her head a tiny
bit through the opening. But, pop! up came an old witch, and whipped off
her head, and stuck a calf's head on her shoulders instead; and so the
princess ran back into the room on all fours, and began to "moo" like a
calf. When Tatterhood came back and saw her sister, she scolded them all,
and was very angry because they hadn't kept better watch, and asked them
what they thought of their carelessness now that her sister had been
turned into a calf.</p>
<p>"But I'll see if I can't set her free," she said.</p>
<p>Then she asked the king for a ship with a full set of sails and good
load of stores, but she would not have a captain or any sailors. No; she
would sail away with her sister all alone. There was no holding her back,
and at last they let her have her own way.</p>
<p>Tatterhood sailed off, and steered her ship right up to the land where
the witches lived. When she came to the landing place, she told her sister
to stay quite still on board the ship; but she herself rode on her goat up
to the witches' castle. When she got there, one of the windows in the
gallery was open, and there she saw her sister's head hung up on the
window frame; so she jumped her goat through the window into the gallery,
snapped up the head, and set off with it. The witches came after her to
try to get the head back. They flocked around her as thick as a swarm of
bees or a nest of ants. The goat snorted and puffed, and butted with his
horns, and Tatterhood beat and banged them about with her wooden spoon;
and so the pack of witches had to give up. So Tatterhood got back to her
ship, took the calf's head off her sister, and put her own on again, and
then she became a girl as she had been before. After that she sailed a
long, long way, to a strange king's realm.</p>
<p>Now the king of this land was a widower, and had an only son. When he
saw the strange sail, he sent messengers down to the beach to find out
where it came from, and who owned it; but when the king's men came down
there, the only person they saw on board was Tatterhood, and there she
was, riding around and around the deck on her goat at full speed, until
her strands of hair streamed in the wind. The men from the palace were all
amazed at this sight, and asked if more people were not on board. Yes,
there were; she had a sister with her, said Tatterhood. They wanted to see
too, but Tatterhood said no.</p>
<p>"No one shall see her, unless the king comes himself," she said; and so
she began to gallop about on her goat until the deck thundered again.</p>
<p>When the servants got back to the palace, and told what they had seen
and heard down at the ship, the king wanted to set out at once to see the
girl that rode on the goat. When he arrived there, Tatterhood brought out
her sister, and she was so beautiful and gentle that the king immediately
fell head over heels in love with her. He brought them both back with him
to the palace, and wanted to have the sister for his queen; but Tatterhood
said "No," the king couldn't have her in any way, unless the king's son
would take Tatterhood. That, as you may guess, the prince did not want to
do at all, because Tatterhood was such an ugly hussy. However, at last the
king and all the others in the palace talked him into it, and he gave in,
promising to take her for his queen; but it went sore against his grain,
and he was a very sad man.</p>
<p>Now they began making preparations for the wedding, both with brewing
and baking; and when all was ready, they went to church. The prince
thought it the worst church service he had ever been to in all his life.
The king left first with his bride, and she was so lovely and so grand,
all the people stopped to look at her along the road, and they stared at
her until she was out of sight. After them came the prince on horseback by
the side of Tatterhood, who trotted along on her goat with her wooden
spoon in her fist. To look at him, he was not going to a wedding, but to a
burial, and his own at that. He seemed so sad, and did not speak a
word.</p>
<p>"Why don't you talk?" asked Tatterhood, when they had ridden a bit.</p>
<p>"Why, what should I talk about?" answered the prince.</p>
<p>"Well, you might at least ask me why I ride upon this ugly goat," said
Tatterhood.</p>
<p>"Why do you ride on that ugly goat?" asked the prince.</p>
<p>"Is it an ugly goat? Why, it's the most beautiful horse that a bride
ever rode," answered Tatterhood; and in an instant the goat became a
horse, the finest that the prince had ever seen.</p>
<p>They rode on a bit further, but the prince was just as sad as before,
and couldn't say a word. So Tatterhood asked him again why he didn't talk,
and when the prince answered, he didn't know what to talk about, she said,
"Well, you can ask me why I ride with this ugly spoon in my fist."</p>
<p>"Why do you ride with that ugly spoon?" asked the prince.</p>
<p>"Is it an ugly spoon? Why, it's the loveliest silver fan that a bride
ever carried," said Tatterhood; and in an instant it became a silver fan,
so bright that it glistened.</p>
<p>They rode a little way further, but the prince was still just as sad,
and did not say a word. In a little while Tatterhood asked him again why
he didn't talk, and told him to ask why she wore the ugly gray hood on her
head.</p>
<p>"Why do you wear that ugly gray hood on your head?" asked the
prince.</p>
<p>"Is it an ugly hood? Why, it's the brightest golden crown that a bride
ever wore," answered Tatterhood, and it became a crown at once.</p>
<p>Now they rode a long way further, and the prince was so sad, that he
sat without making a sound or uttering a word, just as before. So his
bride asked him again why he didn't talk, and told him to ask now why her
face was so ugly and gray?</p>
<p>"Yes," asked the prince, "why is your face so ugly and gray?"</p>
<p>"Am I ugly? You think my sister beautiful, but I am ten times more
beautiful," said the bride, and when the prince looked at her, she was so
beautiful, he thought that she was the most beautiful woman in the world.
After that it was no wonder that the prince found his tongue, and no
longer rode along with his head hanging down.</p>
<p>So they drank the bridal cup both deep and long, and, after that, both
prince and king set out with their brides to the princesses' palace, and
there they had another bridal feast, and drank once more, both deep and
long. There was no end to the celebration. Now run quickly to the king's
palace, and there will still be a drop of the bridal ale left for you.</p><p>Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe, <a href="http://www.lysator.liu.se/runeberg/folkeven/122.html">Lurvehette</a>,
<i>Norske Folkeeventyr</i> (Christiania [Oslo], 1842-1852), translated by
George Webb Dasent (1859).</p><p>Lauren Hill beautiful version of <i>Tatterhood</i> is now out of print. Search for it in libraries and used book stores. <br /></p><hr />wisecronecottagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06905728573029477284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-455236209379584574.post-30455364145285736542023-12-12T20:45:00.001-07:002023-12-12T20:45:48.555-07:00"Go I Know Not Whither, Fetch I Know Not What" (Part II)<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKsb09zQm6K29p6Y5NDlerW1IlzlSkAaoKYu0qjyqFQ7HKHDyZbAOaCra5eQnVU3yepVuw85LQcRNCik1iOhV51aHJwYszyBHItZVr8F7BAtRNpGc6psNRxFOSEldvTb8E82zKV_R3W_LKo4TFNhnFG4d38BztvV8T2jpWAZJ7o3FKkIU1jTbatN5tQNdW/s769/BabaYaga-Ivan_Bilibin.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="769" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKsb09zQm6K29p6Y5NDlerW1IlzlSkAaoKYu0qjyqFQ7HKHDyZbAOaCra5eQnVU3yepVuw85LQcRNCik1iOhV51aHJwYszyBHItZVr8F7BAtRNpGc6psNRxFOSEldvTb8E82zKV_R3W_LKo4TFNhnFG4d38BztvV8T2jpWAZJ7o3FKkIU1jTbatN5tQNdW/s320/BabaYaga-Ivan_Bilibin.webp" width="250" /></a></div><br /><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"> <span style="font-size: medium;"><i>(Because this is a long story, our discussion was broken into two
parts. The story was shared in the October 29, 2023 blog post. This posting furthers the
discussion.)</i><span style="line-height: 150%;"> </span><span style="line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Just like every other story, this one has many interpretations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most commentators see this as an initiation
tale – a hero’s journey in which a young man's actions determine if he is
worthy of his magical bride.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fedot is
young and skillful as an archer. But he hasn’t been tested in the ways of
life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We don’t know if he can
distinguish right from wrong. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is he
marriage material?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Will he make a worthy
husband?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">One day Fedot unexpectedly comes upon a magical bird.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is this his destiny?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He shoots the bird and breaks her wing.
Before he can wring her neck, she begins to speak and convinces him to save her
life. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As we later determine, she is
magical and can shapeshift at will.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
unusual and detailed instructions given to Fedot are not necessary. So why does
she appear so vulnerable here?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She’s
determining his nature. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The stage is set
for the archer’s adventure. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the hero’s
journey cycle, Fedot now finds himself at the threshold.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The two marry, and the story moves to their future.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The bird maiden does not want a hunter as a
husband.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The archer’s wife wants to make
a rug that will provide the couple with enough money, so he no longer needs to
be in the king’s service. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He sells the
rug without haggling. He is told not to offer a price. He is an honest seller
who doesn’t know the value of the rug.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The steward sets a price, half of the rug's value.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But that’s not enough, the greedy steward
wants more. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He seeks her out, tells the
king and then both the steward and the king fall under her spell.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The only male in the story who isn’t dumbstruck
by her beauty is Fedot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps this
also speaks to his character, for Fedot finds virtue beyond superficial beauty.
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The king in his lustful and envious state wishes Fedot harm. He
gives the task to the steward who doesn’t know what to do until he runs into
Baba Yaga.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is that a fortuitous event or
was Baba Yaga waiting for him? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It may
appear to be a random turn of events but what if Baba Yaga is the bird maiden’s
mother or aunt? If so, she knowingly comes up with the impossible task that
will determine his worth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s what crones
do, after all.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">In folktales, Baba Yaga speaks cryptically. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her words both test the protagonist while also
sharing information that will prove valuable later in the story. It’s sometimes
a test, sometimes a prophecy, and sometimes a warning. She starts Fedot’s
adventure by saying he needs to “go I know not where and fetch I know not what.”
It will be a difficult adventure, but if Fedot succeeds, he will be
rewarded.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fedot doesn’t know this, He’s
just wanting to save his life and get back to his wife.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">This is how most hero’s journeys begin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s how most lives play out. We start in the
ordinary world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But somehow, we are pushed
into more than a poorly defined task. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
are entering the road of obstacles and challenges.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It might be a health challenge, a
relationship trial, or losing a job. There are many times we feel a bit lost.
What do we do?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Where do we look for a
solution?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We often feel as if we are
going I know not where to get I know not what!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Baba Yaga’s advice is taken.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Fedot’s wife sends him off with some of the king’s gold, her
handkerchief, and a ball.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s going to
be an 18-year journey. The bird maiden doesn’t tell him to go to her homeland. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But she tells him to throw a magical ball
before him and follow wherever it goes. She tells him to use only her
handkerchief to dry his face. Fedot’s course is set, and he arrives at the
magical palace, the home of his bird maiden wife.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">There he finds three lovely damsels.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They begin to ask him questions which he
refuses to answer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Instead, he tells
them to offer him something to eat, and drink and give him time to rest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Only then will he speak to them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This part of the story seems a bit out of
character, for Fedot has not been assertive before.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But his behavior fits with the pattern of Baba
Yaga stories in which there is a male hero.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In many stories, the protagonist is sent to find Baba Yaga. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her standard question is, “Are you here of
your own free will or by compulsion, my good youth?” It’s the first test of the
soon-to-be hero.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If he replies he is
sent, his interaction with Baba Yaga goes quite poorly; but if he shows agency,
he will succeed. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here he is more
confrontational. The young beauties respond as Baba Yaga often does when the
hero does the unexpected.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When he tells
them what to do, they comply.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The next day, the beauties offer him a basin to wash his
face. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He dries his face on his wife's
handkerchief.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They recognize it as being
associated with their family – just as seeing a family crest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The beauties call for their mother and the
old woman identifies the handkerchief as belonging to her daughter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But who is this old woman? She has no name.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many Baba Yaga stories have two old women
characters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One is Baba Yaga who appears
in her more ferocious aspects and the other is a grandmotherly figure who acts
kind and helpful. But are they both Baba Yaga?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Remember, Baba Yaga is not a singular figure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We discover in other stories that she has sisters
and children too. In this tale, the bird maiden’s mother could be the first Baba
Yaga, her sister (that is the second Baba Yaga) or some random magical old
woman. The latter is unlikely. It’s more probable that she is one of the Baba
Yagas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In this instance, Baba Yaga #2 becomes
Fedot’s donor – the one who gives him just the magical object needed.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Russian folklorist and scholar, Vladimir Propp, writes in his
book “Morphology of the Folktale”:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Baba Yaga guards the boundary of the other world and the
entrance to it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She lets only the worthy
pass through. The hero is never disturbed by her welcome.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is the benevolent type of Yaga, the
gift-giver and advisor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She shows the
hero the path.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From now on, he knows
where to go. She gives the hero magical objects or a magical helper, and the
action moves to a new stage. Yaga belongs to the broad category of the folktale
donor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Meeting with a donor is a
canonical form of development of the action.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He/she is always met by chance, and the hero earns or somehow otherwise
obtains a magical object.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Possession of
the magical object defines success and the story’s outcome.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">And that is exactly what we see in this story. Fedot’s
mother-in-law (and the entire family) is magical.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After he tells her his story, she asks her
magical servants for their help and advice. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Scholar, Joanna Hubbs contends that Baba Yaga represents
a powerful female deity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maria-Louise
von Franz agrees, believing that Baba Yaga represents an aspect of the Great
Mother.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s easy to make that
comparison in this story. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fedot’s
mother-in-law goes with him to the center of the earth. It’s a place of
transition to the other world. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She is
the one who can request help from all the universe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She is the one to whom the old lame croaking
frog speaks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is the only one who has
the answer to “Go, I know not where, and fetch I know not what.” </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">But the frog is old and lame, how can he guide the
archer?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s the wisdom of the wise
crone that appears now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fedot’s mother-in-law
knows to put the frog's feet in milk.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
may seem to be an odd act, except that it was an ancient Russian way of keeping
milk from going sour. (BTW, science is showing that might be true!)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Obviously, Fedot’s mother-in-law is a Baba Yaga, too!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She gives him the help he needs just when he
needs it most. And so even though the story continues for the hero, his success
is assured as soon as she finds the frog. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fedot meets an invisible servant (Shmat-Razum)
who agrees to come with him because he treats the genie with kindness and respect.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Instead of going straight home, they return first to his
mother-in-law’s house. The story says that Fedot “made his new servant regale
the old woman and her daughters right royally.” The genie “feasted them so
bountifully that the old woman very nearly danced for joy and ordered the frog
three jars of fresh milk every nine days for his faithful services.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The archer then took leave of his
mother-in-law and wended his way homeward.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">And as Fedot takes his leave, we do too, for this is the end
of the story of Baba Yaga and his Yaga-in-law. Throughout the tale, we see her
hand in crafting the events that followed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And yet, throughout, we see Fedot showing kindness and respect again and
again.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Folklorist Jack Zipes writes in his book <i>The Irresistible
Fairy Tale</i>, “At times, she can also be generous with her advice, yet her
counsel and help do not come cheaply, for a Baba Yaga is always testing the
people who come to her by chance or choice. Demands that young men or women
deserve her help. But what Baba Yaga also defends in the nineteenth-century tales
are qualities that the protagonists need in order to adapt and survive, such as
perseverance, kindness, obedience, integrity, and courage.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Fedot proved his worth as husband to the bird maiden,
son-in-law to Baba Yaga, and ruler of the land. Zipes argues that “Baba Yaga is
not portrayed as malignant in any of these tales. Of course, she is dangerous
and wary of anyone who enters her terrain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She has enormous powers and is inscrutable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Without her assistance, the protagonist, female,
or male, cannot overcome evil.” </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Perhaps we need a little more Baba Yaga in the world today to
overcome the evil that we face. If you have questions about how to do that, it’s
best not to ask.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For as Baba Yaga says in
her folktale “Vasilissa the Beautiful.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Well,” said the old witch, “only remember that every
question does not lead to good.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If thou
knowest overmuch, thou will grow old too soon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>What wilt thou ask?”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Nothing, my dear Yaga, nothing at all.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">--------------------------------------------- <br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"> "Go I Know Not Whither and Fetch I Know Not What." Adapted from Bain, R. Nisbet, <em>Russian Fairy Tales: From the Skazki of Polevoi. </em>3rd ed. London: A. H. Bullen, 1901. <br /> Image: <em>Russian Wonder Tales, </em>illustrated by Ivan Bilibin (1902) . <span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> <br /></span></p>
wisecronecottagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06905728573029477284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-455236209379584574.post-49205837435381281372023-11-14T10:50:00.007-07:002023-11-14T10:56:06.898-07:00"Madeleine" - a Film by Raquel Sancinetti<p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000009146081/madeleine.html" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="165" data-original-width="306" height="165" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaImSgmkMB-abNZIjl6xjl4KTI3fyWMyoIikHaDOGCSY61BTdoa02_DlcXpNZMNvCarXwCWX5Auig7wv7UD80EwTI-2CZbUhP6bT_H4SgXrN8x8Ud05ZzaI9Iy7a2mJvmSPakbqHVgs7gVMJH9TyZNH2sxQohzjxnVM-vrx4KMl6dFtZ4TVFgJysFY6xrk/s1600/madeleine.jpg" width="306" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">This film by Raquel Sancinetti is magnifique! It's the perfect
expression of the wise crone living in her own cottage - always learning
in the present moment. I'll speak more about it in an upcoming blog
post. For now, enjoy!</span></p>wisecronecottagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06905728573029477284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-455236209379584574.post-6425171394548679662023-10-29T21:19:00.000-07:002023-10-29T21:19:49.639-07:00"Go I Know Not Whither - Fetch I Know Not What" - A Russian Tale<p> </p><p class="firstpar" style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Go I Know Not Where, Fetch I Know Not What" border="0" class="img_mobil" height="290" src="http://freebooksforkids.net/go-i-know-not-where-fetch-i-know-not-what/11.jpg" width="338" /> </p><p class="firstpar" style="text-align: center;">llustrated by N.Kochergin (1897-1974) <br /></p><!--[if !mso]>
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<![endif]--><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">This Russian tale features Baba Yaga,
the Slavic witch crone. (She was discussed earlier in the story "Vasilisa the Beautiful.”)
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> Although Baba Yaga has only a
small part to play, her suggestion shifts the tale’s entire trajectory. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And once again there are her enigmatic words “Go
I know not whither and fetch I know not what” to ponder.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">By the blue sea, in a certain empire, there dwelt once
upon a time a king who was a bachelor and had a whole company of archers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The archers used to hunt with him and shoot
the birds that flew about and provided meat for their master’s table. In this
company served a youthful archer named Fedot, a clever marksman was he, never
missing his aim.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was for this reason
that the King loved him better than all his comrades. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">One day he chanced to go a-hunting very early, before
the break of day. He went into a dense, dreary forest, and saw a dove sitting
on a tree. Fedot stretched his bow, took aim, fired, and broke one of the
dove’s little wings. The bird fell from the tree down upon the damp earth. The
marksman picked it up and was about to twist its neck and put it in his pouch
when the dove spoke to him.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">“Alas! young marksman! do not twist my poor little
silly neck. Drive me not out of the bright world. It is better to take me alive.
Carry me home, put me in your little window, and right when slumber comes over
me, at that very moment, I say, stroke me the wrong side down with your right
hand, and good fortune shall come to you!” </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">The marksman was amazed. “Why, what is this?” thought
he. “My eyes tell me it is a bird, and nothing else, yet it speaks with a human
voice! Such a thing has never happened to me before.” </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">So, he took the bird home, placed it on the windowsill,
and waited and waited. It was not very long before the bird laid its head
beneath its wing and began to doze. Then the marksman raised his right hand and
stroked it, quite lightly, the wrong side down. The dove instantly fell to the
ground and became a maiden, and so beautiful that the like of it can only be
told in tales but is neither to be imagined nor guessed at. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">She spoke to the good youth who was the royal archer
and said: “You are clever enough to win me and have wit enough to live with me.
You are my predestined husband; I am your pre-ordained wife.” </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">They were immediately of one mind. Fedot married, lived
at home, and rejoiced in his young wife. Yet he never forgot his service to the
king. Every morning, before the break of the day, he took his weapon, went into
the forest, shot various kinds of wild beasts, and took them to the royal
kitchen. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">But it was plain that his wife was much tormented by
these hunting expeditions, and one day she said to him: “Listen, my friend! I
am fearful for you! Every blessed day you go into the forest, wander through the
marsh, and return home wet through and through. We are none the better for it.
What sort of a trade do you call this? Look, I have a plan that you can benefit
from. Get me now one or two hundred rubles, and I’ll manage all the rest.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Then Fedot hurried to his comrades, and borrowed a
ruble from one, and two rubles from another till he had collected about two
hundred rubles. Then he brought it to his wife. “Now,” said she, “buy me
various kinds of silk with all this money!” </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">The archer went and bought various kinds of silk for two
hundred rubles. She took them and said: “Be not sorrowful! Pray God and lie
down to sleep, the morning is wiser than the evening!”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So the husband
fell asleep, and the wife went out upon the balcony, opened her book of spells,
and immediately two invisible youths appeared before her and said: “What is
your command?” </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">To which she said, “Take this silk, and in a single
hour weave me a carpet more wondrous than anything to be found in the whole wide
world, and let the entire kingdom be embroidered on this carpet, with all its
cities and villages and rivers and lakes.” </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Then they set to work and wove the carpet, and it was
wondrous to behold, wondrous above everything. In the morning the wife handed
the carpet to her husband. “There,” she said, “take it to the marketplace and
sell it to the merchants. But look now! Don’t haggle about the price but take
whatever they offer for it.” </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Fedot took the carpet, turned it round, hung it over
his arm, and went to the marketplace. A merchant saw him, ran up to him at
once, and said to him: “Tell me, honored sir, will you sell me that carpet?”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Willingly!” he
replied. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">“And what then is the price?” </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">The archer responded, “You frequent these markets, what
do you think is a fair price?” </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">The merchant fell a-thinking and a-thinking, he could not
figure out a price for the carpet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
was at his wits’ end. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Another merchant came running up and after him a third
and a fourth till a great crowd of them collected; they looked at the carpet, marveled
at it, and could not set a price. At that moment the royal steward passed by,
saw the crowd, and wanted to know what all the merchants were talking about. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">So, he went up to them and said, “What is the matter?”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">“We cannot price this carpet,” they replied. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">The steward looked at the carpet, and he was amazed. “Listen,
archer!” he said, “tell me the real truth; where did you get this royal carpet?”
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">The archer smiled and said, “My wife made it!” </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">“How much do you want for it?” </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">“I don’t know the value of it. My wife asked me not to
haggle over it, but to take whatever was offered,” the archer explained. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">“Then what do you say to 10,000 rubles?” The archer
took the money and gave up the carpet. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Now this steward was always by the King and ate and
drank at his table. So, he went to dine with the King and took the carpet with
him. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">“Would it please your Majesty to look at the carpet I
have bought today?” The King looked and saw there his whole realm just as if it
were on the palm of his hand, and he heaved a great sigh. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">“Why, what a carpet is this! In all my life I have
never seen such a cunning craft. Say now, what will you take for this carpet?” The
King drew out 25,000 rubles and put them into the hand of the steward, but the
carpet they hung up in the palace. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">“That is a mere nothing,” thought the steward, “I’ll
make a much better thing out of the second chance.” So, he immediately searched
for the archer, sought out his little hut, and entered the dwelling room.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The moment he saw the archer’s wife, at that
very instant he forgot all about himself and the errand on which he had come.
Nevertheless, the steward forced himself to return home. Afterward, he bungled
over everything he took in hand, and whether asleep or awake, he thought only
of one thing, the wonderfully lovely little archeress.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">The King observed his change, and asked him, “What the
matter? What has happened to you to make you so sad?”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">“Alas! My king and father, I have seen the archer's
wife—such a beauty the world knows not, nor has ever seen!” The King himself
was seized with a desire to fall in love with her, and he also went to the
abode of the archer. He entered the living room and saw before him a lady of such
unspeakable loveliness. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The King
suddenly understood what had happened to his son. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">“Love’s burning chilblain captured his heart.” “But what
does that matter? Why should I remain a bachelor any longer?” he thought. “I
know. I’ll marry this beauty for she’s too good to be a mere archer’s wife.
From her birth, she was evidently meant to be a Queen! My Queen!”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">The King returned to his palace and said to the
steward, “Take heed! You were smart enough to show me the archer’s wife, that
unspeakable beauty. Now you must be smart enough to get her husband out of the
way. I want to marry her myself. And if you don’t remove him, look out! For
even though you are my faithful servant, you will be hanged upon some gallows!”
Then the steward went about much more afflicted than before and thought as he
would, he could not devise a method of getting rid of the archer. He wandered
about the broad marketplaces and the narrow lanes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There he met one day a witchy old hag known
as Baba Yaga.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Stay, you
King’s servant!” cried she. “I can see all your thoughts. You’ll want some help
against your unavoidable woe.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">“Ah, help me, dear Baba Yaga! I’ll pay you whatever you
want!”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">“You’ve been commanded to get rid of Fedot the archer.
That thing is not so very easy to do. He indeed is simple, but his wife is
frightfully artful. Well now, we’ll need to hit upon an errand that cannot be
accomplished quickly. Go to the King and say that he must command the archer <i>to
go I know not whither, and fetch I know not what</i>. Such a task as that the
archer will never accomplish, though he lives forever and ever.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Either he will vanish altogether, or if he
does come back, it will be without arms or legs.” </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">The steward rewarded the old hag with gold and hastened
back to the King, and then the King sent and commanded the archer to be brought
before him. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">“Well, Fedot! You are my young warrior and the first in
my corps of archers. Do this for me! <i>Go I know not whither, and fetch me I
know not what!</i> And mark me, if you don’t bring it back, it is I the King,
who tells you that your head shall be severed from your shoulders.” </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">The archer turned and left the palace.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He came home very sad and thoughtful. And his
wife asked him: “Why are you so sad, darling; has any misfortune befallen you?”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">“The King has sent me I know not whither to fetch I
know not what. It is through your beauty that this ruin has come upon us!”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">“Yes, indeed!” she said. “This service is no light one!
It takes nine years to get there, and nine years to get back again, eighteen
years in all, and God only knows if it can be managed even then!”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">“What’s to be done then, and what will become of me?”
he cried.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">“Pray God and lie down to sleep, the morning is wiser
than the evening,” she said. “Tomorrow you will know all.” </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">The archer lay down to sleep, and his wife sat watching
till midnight, opened her book of spells, and the two youths immediately
appeared before her.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">“What is your pleasure, and what do you command?” they
cried.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">“Do you know how one can manage to go I know not
whither, and fetch I know not what?” she asked.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">“No, we do not know.” She closed the book, and the
youths disappeared from before her eyes. In the morning the archeress awoke her
husband. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">“Go to the King,” said she, “and ask for gold from the
treasury for your journey. You have a pilgrimage of eighteen years before you.
When you have the money, return to me to say farewell.” </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">The archer went to the King, received a whole purse full
of money, and returned to say goodbye to his wife. She gave him a pocket
handkerchief and a ball. Then she said: “When you go out of the town, throw
this ball in front of you, and wherever it rolls, follow it. Here too is my pocket
handkerchief; when you wash yourself, wherever you may be, always dry your face
with this handkerchief.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">The archer took leave of his wife and his comrades,
bowed low on all four sides of him, and went beyond the barriers of the city.
He threw the ball in front of him; the ball rolled and rolled, and he followed
it.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">A month or so passed away, and then the King called the
steward and said to him: “The archer has departed to wander about the wide
world for eighteen years, and he will not return alive. Now eighteen years are
not two weeks, and no little disaster may have befallen him by the way. Go then
to the archer’s house and bring his wife to the palace!” </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">So, the steward went to the archer’s house, entered the
room, and said to the beautiful archeress: “Greetings wise woman! The King
commands you to come to the court!” So, to the court, she went. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">The King received her with joy and led her into his
golden halls. “Will you be a Queen? I will make you, my spouse!” he said.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">The archer’s wife was indigent. “Where was such a thing
ever seen, where was such a thing ever heard of, to take a wife away from her
living husband? Though he is nothing but a simple archer, he is for all that my
lawful husband.” </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">“If you don’t come of your own accord, I’ll take you by
force!” the King roared.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">But the beauty laughed, stamped upon the floor, turned
into a dove, and flew out of the window.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">The archer passed through many countries and kingdoms,
and the ball continued rolling. Whenever they came to a river the ball expanded
into a bridge, and whenever the archer wished to rest, the ball widened into a
downy bed. Whether the time was long or whether it was short, the tale was
quickly told, although the deed was not quickly done. Suffice it to say that the
archer finally came to a vast and wealthy palace.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The ball rolled right up against the door and
vanished. The archer begins to think. “I had better go straight on.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, he went up the staircase into a room, and
there he found three lovely damsels. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">“Where have you come from and for what reason are you
here, good man?” they said. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">“Alas! Lovely damsels, you ask me not to rest from my
long journey, but you begin to torment me with questions. First, you should
give me something to eat and drink and let me rest, and only then should you
ask me of my journey!” They immediately laid the table, gave him something to
eat and drink, and made him lie down to rest. The archer slept away his
weariness, rose from his soft bed, and the lovely damsels brought him a washing
basin and an embroidered towel. He washed himself in the clear spring water,
but the towel he would not take. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">“I have my handkerchief to wipe my face,” said he, and
he drew out the handkerchief and began to dry himself. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">And the lovely damsels started questioning him. “Tell
us, good man! Where did you get that handkerchief?”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">“My wife gave it to me.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">“Then you must have married one of our kinswomen.” Then
they called their old mother, and she looked at the handkerchief, recognizing
it in the same instant.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">She cried, “This is indeed my daughter’s handkerchief!”
Then she began to put all manner of questions to the archer. He told her how he
had married her daughter, and how the King had sent him <i>I know not whither,
to fetch I know not what</i>. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">“Alas! My dear son-in-law, not even I have heard of
this marvel. But come now, perchance my servants may know of it.” </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Then the old woman fetched her book of spells, turned
over the leaves, and immediately there appeared two giants. “What is your
pleasure, and what is your command?”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">“Look now, my faithful servants, carry me together with
my son-in-law to the wide sea Ocean, and place us in the very center of it—in
the very abyss.” Immediately the giants caught up the archer and the old woman,
and bore them, as by a hurricane, to the wide sea Ocean, and placed them in the
center of it—in the very abyss. There they stood like two vast columns and held
the archer and the old woman in their arms. Then the old woman cried with a
loud voice, and there came swimming up to her all the fish and creeping things
of the sea so that the blue sea was no longer to be seen for the multitude of
them.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">“Hark! Fish and creeping things of the sea. You who
swim everywhere, have you heard how to go <i>I know not whither, to fetch I
know not what?</i>” </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">And all the fishes and creeping things exclaimed with
one voice, “No, we have never heard of it.” </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Suddenly a lame old croaking frog forced its way to the
front and said, “Kwa, kwa; I know where this marvel is to be found.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">“Well, dear, that is just what I want to know,” said
the old woman, and she took up the frog and told the giants to carry her and
her son-in-law home. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">In an instant, they found themselves in their own
courtyard. Then the old woman began to question the frog. “How and by what road
can my son-in-law go?” </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">And the frog answered, “This place is at the end of the
world—far, far away. I would gladly lead him myself, but I am so frightfully
old, that I can scarcely move my legs. I could not get there in fifty years.” </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">The old woman sent for a big jar, filled it with fresh
milk, put the frog inside, and said to her son-in-law, “Hold this jar in your
hand and the frog will show you the way.” The archer took the jar with the
frog, said goodbye to his mother-in-law and his sisters-in-law, and set out on
his way. On he went, and the frog showed him the way. Whether it be far or
near, long or short, matters not; suffice it that he came to the fiery river.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Beyond this river was a high mountain, and on
this mountain, a door was to be seen. “Kwa, kwa,” said the frog, “let me out of
the jar, we must cross over this river.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">The archer took it from the jar and placed it on the
ground. “Now, my good youth, sit on me. More firmly. Don’t be afraid. You will
not smash me.” The youth sat on the frog and pressed it down to the ground. The
frog began to swell; it swelled and swelled until it was as large as a
haystack. All that the archer now thought of was the risk of falling off. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">“If I fall off it will be the death of me,” thought he.
The frog, when it had done swelling, took a leap and leaped with one big bound
right across the fiery stream, and again made itself quite little. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">“Now, good youth, go through that door and I’ll wait
for you here. You will come into a cavern and will need to hide yourself well.
In a short time two old men will enter; listen to what they are saying, and see
what they do, and when they are gone, say and do as they did.” </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">The archer went into the mountain, opened the door, and
found the cavern. It was dark enough to put one’s eyes out. He fumbled his way
along and felt all about him with his arms until he felt an empty chest, into
which he hid himself. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">And now, after he had waited some time, two old men
entered and said: “Hi! Shmat-Razum! come and feed us.” </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">At that very instant—there’s no telling how—lightning
flashes lit candelabras, thundered plates and dishes, and various wines and
meats appeared upon the table. The old men ate and drank, and then they commanded
“Shmat-Razum! take it all away.” And immediately there was nothing, neither
table, nor wine, nor meats, and the candelabras all went out. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">The archer heard the two old men going out, crept out
of the chest, and cried: “Hi! Shmat-Razum!”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">“What is your pleasure?”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">“Feed me.” Again, everything appeared. The candelabras
were lighted, the table was covered, and all the meats and drinks appeared upon
it. The archer sat down at the table and said, “Hi! Shmat-Razum. Come, brother,
and sit down with me, let’s eat and drink together. I can’t stand eating all
alone.” </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">And an invisible voice answered him: “Alas! good man,
where have you come from? It’s thirty years since I have served the two old men
here, and during all that time they have never once asked me to sit down with
them.” </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">The archer looked around and was amazed. He saw nobody,
yet the meat disappeared from the dishes as if someone was sweeping them away,
and the wine bottles lifted themselves up, poured themselves into the glasses,
and in a moment the glasses were empty. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Then the archer went on eating and drinking, but he
said: “Listen, Shmat-Razum! Will you be my servant? You will have a good time
of it with me.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">“Why should I not? I have been growing weary here, and I
see, you are a good man.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Well, get
everything ready and come with me,” said the archer.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">The archer came out of the cave and looked around him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was nothing. “Shmat-Razum, are you
there?”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">“I am here. Fear not. I’ll never desert you.” </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">“Right,” replied the archer, and he sat him on the
frog. The frog swelled out and leaped across the fiery stream.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He placed it in the jar and set off on his
return journey. He came to his mother-in-law and made his new servant regale
the old woman and her daughters right royally. Shmat-Razum feasted them so
bountifully that the old woman very nearly danced for joy and ordered the frog
three jars of fresh milk every nine days for its faithful services. The archer
then took leave of his mother-in-law and wended his way homeward. He went on
and on till he was utterly exhausted, his swift feet trembled beneath him, and
his white arms sank by his side. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">“Alas!” said he, “Shmat-Razum, do you not see how weary
I am? My legs fail me.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">“Why didn’t you tell me long ago? I will bring you to
the place alive and well.” And immediately the archer was seized by a whirlwind
and carried through the air so quickly that his hat fell from his head. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">“Hi! Shmat-Razum! Stop a minute. My hat has fallen from
my head.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">“Too late, master. You can’t get it. Your cap is now 5,000
miles behind you.” Towns and villages, rivers, and forests, melted away beneath
the feet of the archer.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">And now the archer was flying over the deep sea, and
Shmat-Razum told him: “If you will let me, I would make a golden bower on this
sea, and you will be able to rest and be happy!”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">“Do so then,” said the archer, and straightway they
began descending towards the sea. For a moment, the waves splashed high, and
then a small island appeared, and on the island was a golden pleasure-house. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Shmat-Razum said to the archer: “Sit in this pleasure
house and rest and look out upon the sea. Three merchant vessels will sail by
and stop at the island. You must invite the merchants in and hospitably
entertain them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Exchange me for three
wondrous things which the merchants will bring with them. In due time I will
return to you again.” </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">The archer kept watch, and lo! From the west three
ships came sailing up, and the merchantmen saw the island and the golden pleasure
house. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“It’s a marvel!” they said, “how
many times have we sailed here, and nothing was to be seen but the sea! And
now, behold! a golden pleasure house is here. Come, friends, let us put to
shore and feast our eyes upon it!” So immediately they lowered the sails and
cast the anchor, three of the merchants climbed into a light skiff, and they
came to the shore.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">“Hail, good man!”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">“Hail, wayfaring merchants, you men of many marts! Be
so good as to turn in to me, stroll about at your ease, make merry, and repose.
This pleasure house was built expressly for guests that come by the sea!” The
merchants entered the bower and sat them down on footstools. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">“Hi! Shmat-Razum!” cried the archer; “give us something
to eat and drink.” The table appeared, and on the table was wine and savory
meats; whatever the soul desired was there with the wishing. The merchants
sighed in envy. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">“Come,” said they, “let us make an exchange. Give us your
servant, and take from us what marvels you like best.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">“But what marvels have you then?” the archer asked.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">“Look and see!” One of the merchants drew out of his
pocket a little casket, and he had no sooner opened it than a lovely garden
spread out all over the island with fragrant flowers and pleasant paths. But
when he shut the casket, the garden immediately disappeared. The second
merchant drew from beneath the folds of his garment an axe and began to tap
with it. “Rap-tap!” out came a ship. “Rap-tap!” out came another ship. A hundred
times he rapped and made a hundred ships with sails and guns and crews complete.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The ships sailed, and the sailors stood by
the guns and took orders from the merchant. The merchant gloried in it for a
while, but then he concealed his axe and the ships vanished out of sight just
as if they had never been. The third merchant produced a horn, blew into one end
of it, and immediately an army appeared, both horse and foot, with cannons and
banners, and through all the ranks went the roll of martial music, and the armor
of the warriors flashed like fire in the sunlight. The merchant rejoiced in it
all, then he took his horn and blew into the other end of it, and there was
nothing to be seen, the whole of that martial might was no more.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">“Your marvels are well enough, but they are of no use
to me,” said the archer; “your hosts and your fleets would do honor to a Tsar,
but I am only a simple archer. If you would change with me, then must you give
me all your three wonders in exchange for my one invisible servant.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">“But won’t that be too much?”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">“Know that I’ll make no other exchange.” </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">The merchants considered among themselves: “What’s the
use of this garden, these ships, and these hosts to us? ’It will be better to do
the exchange. At any rate, we shall always be able to eat and drink our fill
without the least trouble.” </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">So, they gave the archer their wonders and said: “Well,
Shmat-Razum, we’ll take you with us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Will you serve us well and loyally?”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">“Why should I not serve you? It is all the same with me
with whom I live.” The merchants returned to their ships and regaled all their
crews right royally. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">“Hi! Shmat-Razum! Rouse yourself!” </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">And everyone on board ate and drank their fill and lay
down and slept heavily. But the archer sat in his golden bower and grew pensive
and said: “Alas! My heart yearns after my faithful servant, Shmat-Razum. I
wonder where he is now!”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">“I am here, master!” he said, and the archer was glad. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">“Is it not time for us to hasten home?” And he had no
sooner spoken than a whirlwind seized him and bore him into the air.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">The merchants awoke from their sleep and wanted to
drink away the effects of their carouse. “Hi! Shmat-Razum, give us some more drinks
by way of a pick-me-up!” </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">But no one answered, no one rendered them that service.
Order and shout as they might, things remained precisely as they were. “Well,
gentlemen! This conman has fooled us! The devil take him, and may the island
vanish and the golden bower perish.” Thus, the merchants lamented and lamented,
and then they spread their sails and departed for where their business called
them.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">The archer flew back to his country and descended into
a waste place by the blue sea. “Hi, Shmat-Razum, can we not build a little
castle here?”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">“Why not? It shall be ready immediately.” And
immediately the castle sprang up, more beautiful than words can tell. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was twice as good as a royal palace. The
archer opened his casket and a garden immediately appeared round the castle
with pleasant country paths and marvelous flowers. The archer sat at the open
window and quite fell in love with his garden. Suddenly a dove flew in at the
window, plumped down upon the ground, and turned into his lovely young wife.
They embraced and greeted each other. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">And the wife said to the archer, “Ever since you left home,
I have been flying as a blue dove among the woods and groves. How happily we
will now live together forevermore!”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Early the next morning the King came out onto his
balcony and looked towards the blue sea and behold! On the very shore stood a
new castle, and round the castle was a green garden. “Who then is this
presumptuous stranger who builds on my land without my leave?” </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Then his couriers ran over, asked questions, and returned.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They told him that this castle was built by
the archer, and he himself dwelt in the castle and his wife with him. The King
was angrier than ever.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He ordered them to
assemble the troops.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Go to the shores
of the sea, root up the garden, smash the castle into little bits, and bring
the archer and his wife to me,” he screamed. The archer saw the King’s army
coming against him, which was very strong.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Then he seized his axe quickly and rapped with it, “Rap-tap!”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Out came a ship. He rapped one hundred times and made
one hundred ships. Then he seized his horn and blew it once, and several
footmen rolled out. He blew in the other end, and many horses rolled out. The
commanders of all the corps came rushing up to him and asked him for orders.
The archer bade them to begin the battle. The music struck up, the drums
rolled, and the regiments moved forward against the royal army. The infantry,
like a solid wall, broke down their center, the horse cut them off at the wings
and took them captive, and the guns from the fleet played upon the capital. The
King saw that all his army was flying, and rushed forward to stop them—but how?
He could not do it, and in a moment, he was swept from his horse during the
fierce fight and trampled underfoot. When the fight was over the people assembled
and begged the archer to accept the whole realm from their hands. To this, he consented
and ruled that kingdom peaceably throughout his life. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">There is much more to say about this story
but we’ll leave that until next month!</span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Adapted from Bain, R. Nisbet, <i>Russian Fairy Tales: From
the Skazki of Polevoi. </i>3rd ed. London: A. H. Bullen, 1901. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p>
wisecronecottagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06905728573029477284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-455236209379584574.post-82324589848859668112023-10-13T15:24:00.005-07:002023-10-15T13:01:07.980-07:00The Darkest Blackest Witch" - a story by Michael Harvey<p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSBbUgvIipTPYS3sdhwtw01juQiwJB4t7si8FtiMNtTcwfRiubiHqRPa1qlgNHw3URToLo48tHIXYurFBrgXa3LWTid3tjehA_9RMCJDNfWtZBrQ7xIARsP4s_DFDnLJlDe2uW8LQ_ktkoc7VwAUiHC-Rz3RO-qNmkEe9jdi5vbuGDPTwEKasZfWJ8Im62/s500/pigboy.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="500" height="192" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSBbUgvIipTPYS3sdhwtw01juQiwJB4t7si8FtiMNtTcwfRiubiHqRPa1qlgNHw3URToLo48tHIXYurFBrgXa3LWTid3tjehA_9RMCJDNfWtZBrQ7xIARsP4s_DFDnLJlDe2uW8LQ_ktkoc7VwAUiHC-Rz3RO-qNmkEe9jdi5vbuGDPTwEKasZfWJ8Im62/s320/pigboy.webp" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p> </p><p>Some of you will remember my retelling of the Welsh story <span style="color: #2b00fe;"><a href="https://www.wisecronecottage.com/2019/11/the-very-black-witch-from-how-culhwch_28.html">“The Very Black Witch” from “How Culhwch Won Olwen”</a></span>. This new telling is from the Welsh storyteller Michael Harvey. Enjoy <a href="https://michaelalharvey.substack.com/p/the-darkest-blackest-witch-daughter#details" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">"The Darkest Blackest Witch daughter of the Brightest Witch.</span>"</a> It's also found in his book entitled "Pig Boy."</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>wisecronecottagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06905728573029477284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-455236209379584574.post-32584604965440559382023-09-20T22:18:00.001-07:002023-10-29T21:32:11.983-07:00"Old Rinkrank" A Grimm Brothers Tale<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVZdF14Hp9tbd1nYMipEB-tt7L-uL6LLH9NNWin83zfAXlxvewVliXr_arCHzG9kCyHtZIKk6X4pcW4pzQ2bc0zR2Il8kfDBEzHNICAtb1e0X5js9s5jz15-ICt1DEfOt9Lz29jdr-L8COQNl8qB7qlZ6WohyCYFWe6B4_8h7TAQycEIfjMzccDo5Zw62x/s491/Old_Rinkrank_by_Edward_H_Wehnert.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="357" data-original-width="491" height="233" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVZdF14Hp9tbd1nYMipEB-tt7L-uL6LLH9NNWin83zfAXlxvewVliXr_arCHzG9kCyHtZIKk6X4pcW4pzQ2bc0zR2Il8kfDBEzHNICAtb1e0X5js9s5jz15-ICt1DEfOt9Lz29jdr-L8COQNl8qB7qlZ6WohyCYFWe6B4_8h7TAQycEIfjMzccDo5Zw62x/s320/Old_Rinkrank_by_Edward_H_Wehnert.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><div class="text" itemprop="text"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">There was once on a time a King who
had a daughter, and he caused a glass mountain to be made, and said that
whosoever could cross to the other side of it without falling should
have his daughter to wife. Then there was one who loved the King's
daughter, and he asked the King if he might have her. "Yes," said the
King; "if you can cross the mountain without falling, you shall have
her." And the princess said she would go over it with him, and would
hold him if he were about to fall. So they set out together to go over
it, and when they were half way up the princess slipped and fell, and
the glass-mountain opened and shut her up inside it, and her betrothed
could not see where she had gone, for the mountain closed immediately.
Then he wept and lamented much, and the King was miserable too, and had
the mountain broken open where she had been lost, and thought he would
be able to get her out again, but they could not find the place into
which she had fallen. Meanwhile the King's daughter had fallen quite
deep down into the earth into a great cave. An old fellow with a very
long gray beard came to meet her, and told her that if she would be his
servant and do everything he bade her, she might live, if not he would
kill her. So she did all he bade her. In the mornings he took his ladder
out of his pocket, and set it up against the mountain and climbed to
the top by its help, and then he drew up the ladder after him. The
princess had to cook his dinner, make his bed, and do all his work, and
when he came home again he always brought with him a heap of gold and
silver. When she had lived with him for many years, and had grown quite
old, he called her Mother Mansrot, and she had to call him Old Rinkrank.
Then once when he was out, and she had made his bed and washed his
dishes, she shut the doors and windows all fast, and there was one
little window through which the light shone in, and this she left open.
When Old Rinkrank came home, he knocked at his door, and cried, "Mother
Mansrot, open the door for me." - "No," said she, "Old Rinkrank, I will
not open the door for thee." Then he said,<br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="text" itemprop="text" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
"Here stand I, poor Rinkrank,<br />
On my seventeen long shanks,<br />
On my weary, worn-out foot,<br />
Wash my dishes, Mother Mansrot."<br />
"I have washed thy dishes already," said she. Then again he said,<br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
"Here stand I, poor Rinkrank,<br />
On my seventeen long shanks,<br />
On my weary, worn-out foot,<br />
Make me my bed, Mother Mansrot."<br />
"I have made thy bed already," said she. Then again he said,<br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
"Here stand I, poor Rinkrank,<br />
On my seventeen long shanks,<br />
On my weary, worn-out foot,<br />
Open the door, Mother Mansrot."</span></span></div><div class="text" itemprop="text" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="text" itemprop="text"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
Then he ran all round his house, and saw that the little window was
open, and thought, "I will look in and see what she can be about, and
why she will not open the door for me." He tried to peep in, but could
not get his head through because of his long beard. So he first put his
beard through the open window, but just as he had got it through, Mother
Mansrot came by and pulled the window down with a cord which she had
tied to it, and his beard was shut fast in it. Then he began to cry most
piteously, for it hurt him very much, and to entreat her to release him
again. But she said not until he gave her the ladder with which he
ascended the mountain. Then, whether he would or not, he had to tell her
where the ladder was. And she fastened a very long ribbon to the
window, and then she set up the ladder, and ascended the mountain, and
when she was at the top of it she opened the window. She went to her
father, and told him all that had happened to her. The King rejoiced
greatly, and her betrothed was still there, and they went and dug up the
mountain, and found Old Rinkrank inside it with all his gold and
silver. Then the King had Old Rinkrank put to death, and took all his
gold and silver. The princess married her betrothed, and lived right
happily in great magnificence and joy.</span></span></div><div class="text" itemprop="text"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></div><div class="text" itemprop="text"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">-------------------------</span></span></div><div class="text" itemprop="text"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></div><div class="text" itemprop="text"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Did you catch what happened at the end of the story? The princess returns to the real world as an old woman. </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It's now clear that the cave in the glass mountain is a "portal" into an otherworld where time slows down. </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And (are you ready for it?), she then marries the prince. The prince we know is young, for the King is still alive. <br /></span></span></div><div class="text" itemprop="text"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="text" itemprop="text"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I'd like to say that the princess is some glamorous woman, a Helen Mirren figure of sorts. But I doubt there were any such women in 19th century Germany. She probably looked more like my grandmother - plump with white hair, hunched back, sparkling eyes and an knowing smile. In our culture, one of the greatest taboos is for an older woman to take a younger man in marriage. Yet, in this story it's a sign of true love. So instead of the young prince winning the hand of the beautiful princess, the old princess wins the hand of the handsome prince! Perhaps that's the greatest surprise of all. <br /></span></span></div><div class="text" itemprop="text"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></div><div class="text" itemprop="text"><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></i></div><div class="text" itemprop="text"><i><span class="mw-mmv-title">From Household Stories.
Collected by the Brothers Grimm. Newly Translated. With 240
illustrations by Edward H. Wehnert. Vol. 2. London: Addey and Company.</span></i></div>
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</p><p class="Default"><i><span color="windowtext" face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">As a storyteller I always pause when I consider
sharing a Native American story on this blog.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I do not tell these stories myself for I am not of that culture and so
much has dishonored their traditions during the early recording of these
stories by “white men.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yet many of
these stories would have been long forgotten if not recorded in some fashion by
the anthropologists and </span></i><i><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">ethnographers of old.</span></i> <br /></p>
<p class="Default"><i><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The first version I found of this story was by George A. Dorsey in
his 1905, two volume book “The Cheyenne.” This is the version found on the
Internet and within several compilations of folktales (including Jane Yolen’s “Gray
Heroes”). I thought to include it but then did some research on Dorsey. I
discovered some criticism that he might have engaged in grave robbing, so I
looked further. Fortunately, I found another version written about the same
time by George Bird Grinnel (“Early Cheyenne Tales.” 20 Journal of American
Folklore,169-194 (Jul-Sept. 1907)).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Grinnel
spent much time with the Cheyenne, Blackfoot, and Pawnee tribes and wrote books
and articles about their stories and culture.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I was impressed to find him mention that there were stories that could
not be told. According to Cheyenne custom, only certain people can tell certain
stories and even then, they can only share what has been deemed appropriate to
share.</span></i> <i><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">His is the version that I will share, for t</span></i><i><span color="windowtext" face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">his wise and powerful grandmother offers much to us today.</span></i><span color="windowtext" face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> <br /></span></p>
<p class="Default"><span color="windowtext" face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The next day they [the Cheyenne] camped near a
little knoll, where a spring came out of the rock. This spring is called
"Old Woman's Water."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They
camped near this spring with the opening of the camp towards it. There was a
fine place for the camp in the plain there. There was a little brush near the
spring. Nothing happened that night.</span><span color="windowtext" face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> <br /></span></p>
<p class="Default"><span color="windowtext" face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">In the morning two sets of hoops and sticks were
taken to the center of the camp, and they rolled them there and gambled on the
game. Two games were going on. They selected the head of the hunting party as
one of the men to keep the count. While they were gambling, a man came from the
right side of the camp to the center, where they were playing. He was naked
except for his breech cloth and was painted yellow all over and striped down
with the fingers; on his breast was a round circle, in red, and on the back a half-moon
of the same color. His face under his eyes was painted black, and there was a
red stripe around his wrists and ankles; he had a yellow down feather on his
scalp-lock and wore his robe hair side out. He stood for a time and watched
them playing. While he stood there, a man came from the left side of the camp,
whose paint and dress were just the same as his. While they were rolling the
wheel, the man who had come from the right said to the players, "My
friends, stop for a moment." He walked toward the other and asked him to
come towards him, so they met in the center of the camp and stopped a short
distance apart. They stood facing each other, and the first one said to the
other, "Why do you imitate me? This is spiritual paint." The second
said, "Mine also is spiritual paint." The game had stopped, and all
the players were listening.</span><span color="windowtext" face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> <br /></span></p>
<p class="Default"><span color="windowtext" face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The first man said, "Who gave you your
spiritual paint, and where did you get it? " The other replied, " Who
gave you yours? " The first man pointed to the spring and said, "My
paint came from there (meaning that at the spring he was instructed to paint
himself in that way). The other said, " Mine also came from the
spring." Then first man said, "Let us do something for the hunters,
the old men, old women, young men, young women, girls and boys." And the
second said, "Yes, let us do so." By this time everyone in the camp
was listening. So, the first man said again, "Soldiers of all societies,
every one of you shall feel happy this day," and the other said,
"Yes, you shall all feel happy this very day." The first speaker
walked toward the spring, and the other followed close behind him. When he came
to the spring, he covered his head with his robe and plunged under the water
into the opening out of which the spring came. His friend followed him closely
and did the same thing. All the people in the camp watched them and saw them go
in.</span><span color="windowtext" face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> <br /></span></p>
<p class="Default"><span color="windowtext" face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The first man came up under the spring, and there
under the knoll sat a </span><span color="windowtext" face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">very old woman. As he stepped in, she said to
him, "Come in, my grandchild." She took him in her arms; held him for
a few minutes and made him sit down at her left side. As the other man came in,
she said again, "Come in, my grandchild." She took him in her arms,
held him for a minute, and set him on her right side. Then she said to both of
them, "Why have you not come sooner? Why have you gone hungry for so long?
Now that you have come here, I must do something for your people." She had
near her two old-fashioned earthen jars. She brought them out and set them down
before her and also brought out two earthen dishes; one was filled with buffalo
meat, and one with corn. She said, "Come, my children; eat the meat
first." They ate it very fast, for it was very good; but, when they had
eaten all they could, the dish was still full; it was the same way with the
corn. They could not empty the dishes; they were full when the men stopped.
They were both satisfied, but the dishes did not show that they had been
touched.</span></p>
<p class="Default"><span color="windowtext" face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The old woman untied the feathers they had on
their heads and threw them in the fire. She painted each man with red paint;
striped him, and repainted his wrists and ankles, and the sun and moon, yellow;
then she stretched her hand out over the fire and brought out two down feathers
painted red and tied them to their scalp-locks. After that, she pointed to her
left and said, "Look that way." They looked and could see the earth
covered with buffalo. The dust was flying up in clouds where the bulls were
fighting. Then she said, "Look this way " (pointing partly behind
her), and they saw immense cornfields. She said, "Look that way"
(pointing to the right), and they saw the prairie covered with horses. The
stallions were fighting and there was much movement. She said, "Look that
way again," and they saw Indians fighting. They looked closely, and among
the fighters recognized themselves, painted just as they were then. She said,
"You will always be victorious in your fights; you will have good fortune
and make many captives. When you go away from here, go to the center of your
village; call for two big bowls and have them wiped out clean. Say to your
people, women, and children and all the bands of the societies, “We have come
out to make you happy; we have brought out something wonderful to give you.
Tell your people that when the sun goes down, I will send out buffalo.” To each
of the young men she gave some corn tied up in sacks and told them to divide
this seed among the people. She told them to take some of the meat from the
dish with one hand and some corn with the other and sent them away. So, they
passed out of her lodge and came out of the water of the spring.</span><span color="windowtext" face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> <br /></span></p>
<p class="Default"><span color="windowtext" face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">All the people of the village were sitting in a
circle watching the spring. The two young men walked on together to the center
of the village, where the one who had first appeared said, "Old men, old
women, young men, young girls, I have brought out something that is wonderful.
Soldiers, I have brought out something wonderful for you. When the sun goes
down, the buffalo will come out." The other young man repeated these
words. The first man stood ahead, and the other right behind him. The first man
said, "I want two wooden bowls, but they must be clean." A young man
ran to the right and another to the left to get the bowls. They set one down on
each side of him, and with his right hand he put the meat in the right-hand
bowl, and with his left hand he put the corn into the left-hand bowl. The bowls
became half full. The other man did the same, and the bowls were filled.</span><span color="windowtext" face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> <br /></span></p>
<p class="Default"><span color="windowtext" face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Just before leaving the old woman, she had said,
"The medicine hunter is to eat first," so the medicine hunter
performed the ceremony making a sacrifice of a piece of the meat at the four
points of the compass - and the first man said to him, "Eat all you
can."</span><span color="windowtext" face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> <br /></span></p>
<p class="Default"><span color="windowtext" face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The old woman had told them that the oldest men
and women were to eat first. They all ate, first of the meat and then of the corn;
then the young men, young women, and the children ate, but the pile in each
dish remained nearly the same. After that the people in the camp ate all they
could, and after all had eaten there was but little left. At the last came two
orphans, a boy, and a girl; they both ate, and when they had finished the meat
was all gone and also the corn. It was just as the young men had said, everyone
was happy, for now they had plenty to eat.</span><span color="windowtext" face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> <br /></span></p>
<p class="Default"><span color="windowtext" face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">As the sun went down, all the village began to
look toward the spring. After a time, as they watched, they saw a four-year-old
bull leap out. He ran a little distance and began to paw the ground, and then
turned about and ran back and plunged into the spring. After he had gone back,
a great herd of buffalo came pouring out of the spring and all night long they
could hear them. No one went to sleep that night, for the buffalo made too much
noise. Next morning at sunrise the earth, as far as they could see, was covered
with buffalo. That day the medicine hunters went out and brought in all the
meat they could eat.</span><span color="windowtext" face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> <br /></span></p>
<p class="Default"><span color="windowtext" face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The village camped there all winter and never
lacked food. Toward spring they sent out two young men to look for moist ground
to plant the seed in, for the old woman had told them that it must be planted
in a damp place. They divided the corn seed; everyone got some, for there was
enough for all. They made big caches in the earth to hold the meat they had
dried, and then went to the place the young men had found and planted the seed.
They made holes with sticks and put the seed in the ground. Sometimes when they
were planting the corn, they would go back to get their dried meat, for the
buffalo had moved to another place. Once, when they returned with their dried
meat, they found that some of the seed had been stolen, and they thought that
it was the Pawnees or the Arickarees - and that that was the way these tribes
got their corn.</span><span color="windowtext" face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> <br /></span></p><div style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border: medium none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-element: para-border-div; padding: 0in 0in 1pt;">
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<p class="Default"><i><span color="windowtext" face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">There is much more to unpack in this story about
the Cheyenne culture for the story is filled with symbolism and reference to
spiritual beliefs, but I’m not learned enough to do so. Here is the little I do
know.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There were two branches to the
Cheyenne tribe (the northern and the southern Cheyenne), and these were often
represented in stories by two young men or culture heroes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One is called Sweet Medicine or Sweet Root or
Sweet Root Sanding and the other is called Red Tassel, Straight Horns, or
Standing on the Ground. Each helped feed their people through a time of
starvation. They moved into southwest Minnesota and the eastern Dakotas, where
they planted corn and built permanent villages. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After they had acquired horses, the Northern
Cheyenne went to live in Montana and Wyoming, while the Southern went to
Oklahoma and Colorado.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This story
references the move of the Cheyenne from an agrarian existence to becoming
hunters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is thought to have
occurred in the 18<sup>th</sup> century.</span><span color="windowtext" face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="Default"><i><span color="windowtext" face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Julian C. Rice writes that Sweet Root is an
orphan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His creative soul is free of
conventional authority and identity. His name suggests “the source of all
creative development, both the male and female principles, and especially the
idea of spiritual nourishment, since the “sweet root” stimulates the flow of
mother’s milk.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The teller of stories
about Sweet Root sprinkled sacred sage upon a hot coal and purified his body in
the smoke before beginning.”</span><span color="windowtext" face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="Default"><i><span color="windowtext" face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The Great Spirit of the Cheyenne tribe is known
as Maheo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He named the earth as the
Grandmother.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When the two young men enter,
the old woman greets and embraces each in turn. She asks “Why have you not come
sooner?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why have you gone hungry so
long?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s a question we might ask
ourselves today as we face one natural disaster after another due to climate
change. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why have we not come sooner? Why
haven’t we asked “Grandmother earth” for her advice? Why do we choose to suffer
instead?</span><span color="windowtext" face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="Default"><i><span color="windowtext" face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The two young men want to do something for the
“hunters, the old men, old women, young men, young women, girls and boys.” They
don’t come for themselves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is a
spiritual quest, and they are marked in spiritual paint. In the story,
Grandmother loves all her creations and wants to help. “I must do something for
your people,” she says. She shares a prophecy of their future filled with
horses and buffaloes and of their success when fighting neighboring tribes.
Finally, she brings forth a never-ending supply of buffalo meat and corn to
feed the people. Each eats according to their status, the medicine hunter
first, the oldest to the youngest and lastly the two orphans.</span><span color="windowtext" face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> <br /></span></i></p>
<p class="Default"><i><span color="windowtext" face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">At sundown the buffalo appears, and, in the
spring, they plant the seeds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In one
version of the story the tribe fails to honor the words of the
Grandmother.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They let others steal their
seeds, so they lose their ability to raise corn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They must now live on the plains and hunt
bison.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Grandmother is loving and kind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She’s willing to help if they will only
ask.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But asking requires humility. It
also requires respect. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Grandmother earth
is powerful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She knows exactly what to
do. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The two young men come to her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> They dress as the spring has asked them to. They have followed her words and are worthy of her counsel. </span>They embrace the old woman and in doing so
they show her the love and respect she is due.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In return she offers them food enough for all the people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps Grandmother earth would do the same
today, if we would only ask and listen for her reply.</span></i></p><p class="Default"><i><span color="windowtext" face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">"</span><span color="windowtext" face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Old men, old
women, young men, young girls, I have brought out something that is wonderful. </span><span color="windowtext" face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I have come to make you happy!"</span></i><i><span color="windowtext" face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></i></p>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 107%;"><i>Tammy Blee<br /></i></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 107%;">I’m currently taking an interesting class on
<a href="https://learnforpleasure.com/subjects/introduction-british-folklore/" target="_blank">British folklore</a> taught by Mark Norman. One of our many topics was witches. In
Britain, old women witches are called either wisewomen or cunning folk.<span> </span>They are called "wise" because they have skill
in herbs or divination.<span> </span>Cunning folks might be
able to cure you of a malady, help you find a lost object, or protect you from
a curse. From medieval time onward, these women (and men) supplemented
their income by using their “craft” for others.<span> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 107%;">We’ve been exploring the archetype of
the wise old woman for some time here. <span> </span>But even so, perhaps a reminder of the core
elements of this archetype might be needed. The “Wise Old Woman” archetype has
two primary roles within folktales. The first is as a helper, tester of
worth and guide. The second is the role of the unlikely hero. The
“Old Woman Helper” and the “unlikely hero” motifs are both found within two
models for analyzing the structure of folktales. In addition, we are looking at
wisdom rather than knowledge or skill. </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 107%;">The cunning woman of Britain may or may not embody the “wise old woman” or “wise crone”
archetype. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 107%;">Let’s look at a real-life example. Tammy
Blee (1793-1856) was a <span class="x193iq5w">19<sup>th</sup> Cornish wise woman.
She was known as the white witch and is said to have cured people with spells
and magic powders. <span> </span>The film “Tammy Blee –
The Notorious Witch of the West” tells her life story.<span> </span>As the film states, “</span><span style="color: #0f0f0f;">Widely celebrated for her skills throughout the Duchy,
Tammy Blee's reputation as one of the most gifted of 'wise woman' ensured a
steady stream of visitors, to her home in Helston.</span>” As you watch the
film, p</span><span class="x193iq5w" style="font-family: inherit;">ay special attention to the ending.<span> </span>It will help you determine if Tammy Blee was
the wise crone or simply a cunning woman after all. </span></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="x193iq5w" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; font-weight: normal;">“</span></span><span style="color: #0f0f0f; font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal;">Tammy Blee - The Notorious Witch of the West” <br /><br /></span></span></p><p style="background: white; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #0f0f0f; font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/W_LpLcjKgj4" width="320" youtube-src-id="W_LpLcjKgj4"></iframe></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"> <span class="x193iq5w" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"> <br /></span></span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="x193iq5w" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">“You
must know it is a dreadful thing to undertake [to summon a spirit]!”<span> </span>Tammy said. <span>And so it was! </span>Even though the event was staged and her fraud uncovered (for the spirit was her husband), Tammy’s suggestion as to how to share
this story left the client with treasure. <span> </span>And so, was Tammy a witch, a cunning woman, or
the wise crone (as defined here)? I think there is evidence enough to identify
her as all three. She certainly knew how to keep her clients happy and how to
turn a very bad situation into a good one.<span> Tammy had knowledge of the "old ways."
</span>She was a helper and a guide too. <span> </span>But wise?<span>
</span>Well, I’ll let the reader make that determination.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 107%;">Previously, I’ve discussed the wise
woman as depicted in Irish folklore.<span> </span>In Ireland,
she is known as the bean feasa. In my<a href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/461860/10519451-the-brewery-of-eggs-an-irish-story-s3-5.mp3?download=true" target="_blank"> podcast </a>covering the folktale “The
Brewery of Eggs,” the wise old woman saves the day in a changeling tale. <span> </span>If you listen to the podcast,
you’ll discover how folktales can be coded to mean much more than what’s on
the surface.</span></span></p>
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<p></p>wisecronecottagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06905728573029477284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-455236209379584574.post-37327043903786876202023-05-28T22:25:00.002-07:002023-06-03T13:45:28.908-07:00"When a Woman Feels Alone" by May Sarton<p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBizdWG6b-LYTeVY0rgOTu_n1yXaXfX495EQOFZnvG-ukfOWJX6kf-HeqdYOYaEkVDINeIPlKi8BlMLyHPUokPFDckBnbaSvU2SA3IMVXSW1iDN_K6gW5ZSrgs6TvZRqMvwOsSVxm9gy-UmB3BMaeZF5XQV1UbNzX4Cnt4zf09CrEbeMXrvoJnLS8J8g/s1280/mother-5374622_1280.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="989" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBizdWG6b-LYTeVY0rgOTu_n1yXaXfX495EQOFZnvG-ukfOWJX6kf-HeqdYOYaEkVDINeIPlKi8BlMLyHPUokPFDckBnbaSvU2SA3IMVXSW1iDN_K6gW5ZSrgs6TvZRqMvwOsSVxm9gy-UmB3BMaeZF5XQV1UbNzX4Cnt4zf09CrEbeMXrvoJnLS8J8g/s320/mother-5374622_1280.jpg" width="247" /></a></span></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>I posted this poem in 2015, but it is relevant and needed again. <br /></i></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">When a woman feels alone, when the room<br />
is full of daemons,” the Nootka tribe<br />
Tells us, ‘The Old Woman will be there.”<br />
She has come to me over three thousand miles<br />
And what does she have to tell me, troubled<br />
“by phantoms in the night”?<br />
Is she really here?<br />
What is the saving word from so deep in the past.<br />
From as deep as the ancient root of the redwood,<br />
From as deep as the primal bed of the ocean,<br />
From as deep as a woman’s heart sprung open<br />
Again through a hard birth or a hard death?<br />
Here under the shock of love, I am open<br />
To you, Primal spirit, one with rock and wave,<br />
One with survivors of flood and fire,<br />
Who have rebuilt their homes a million times,<br />
Who have lost their children and borne them again.<br />
The words I hear are strength, laughter, endurance.<br />
Old Woman I meet you deep inside myself.<br />
There in the rootbed of fertility,<br />
World without end, as the legend tells it.<br />
Under the words you are my silence.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">---------------------------------</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">This poem captures the connection we seek with the wise old woman archetype. What does this old woman tell you when you are unable to sleep at night? ("Let it go, my child. Nothing can be done until morning.") What saving word does she say to soothe your fearful heart? Who is this eternal grandmother, the "primal spirit," who travels 3,000 miles to be at your bedside? She is the one who has seen it all, lived through it all - from birth and death, to joy and sadness. She is there. 'What words would she whisper in your ear? Strength, laughter, endurance? Or is there something more? Close your eyes and breathe her in. Feel her hand on your shoulder as she says, "Do not be afraid. Your time has come." She exists in the rootbed of fertility. "World without end, as the legend tells it. Under the words [she is your] silence."<br /></span></p>wisecronecottagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06905728573029477284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-455236209379584574.post-85773649057822631772023-04-08T16:51:00.001-07:002023-04-19T23:17:02.575-07:00"The Girl without Hands" - The Grimm Brothers Mash-Up<p></p><p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSf40viihLQIDBiYvv2k1Upsa_fEP5fp-6knNeRhEAOejabyTsBwVaFfFqXKsDx8pPnAU23Sviykq1DVDQbUZxWAe04ZNPjwDPy-rs4TFPCSotPfQqx7d0o-ea9VShz1Gd7EP9u8F4Hqv8Haq7FiqYFTLn0bZvvfSUsUrmG5AX2mQms8jd3lM1J5wdUw/s595/Browne-girl-without-hands-Fairy-Tales-from-Grim-print-England-1894.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="595" data-original-width="417" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSf40viihLQIDBiYvv2k1Upsa_fEP5fp-6knNeRhEAOejabyTsBwVaFfFqXKsDx8pPnAU23Sviykq1DVDQbUZxWAe04ZNPjwDPy-rs4TFPCSotPfQqx7d0o-ea9VShz1Gd7EP9u8F4Hqv8Haq7FiqYFTLn0bZvvfSUsUrmG5AX2mQms8jd3lM1J5wdUw/s320/Browne-girl-without-hands-Fairy-Tales-from-Grim-print-England-1894.jpg" width="224" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> A miller fell
slowly but surely into poverty, until finally he had nothing more than his mill
and a large apple tree which stood behind it. One day he had gone into the
forest to gather wood, where he was approached by an old man, whom he had never
seen before, and who said, "Why do you torment yourself with chopping
wood? I will make you rich if you will promise to give me what is standing
behind your mill." </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"What can
that be but my apple tree?" thought the miller. And so, he said yes, and
signed it over to the strange man. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The latter,
however, laughed mockingly and said, "I will come in three years and get
what belongs to me," then went away. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">When he arrived
home, his wife came up to him and said, "Miller, tell me, where did all
the wealth come from that is suddenly in our house? All at once all the chests
and boxes are full, and no one brought it here, and I don't know where it came
from." </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He answered,
"It comes from a strange man whom I met in the woods and who promised me
great treasures if I would but sign over to him what stands behind the mill. We
can give up the large apple tree for all this." </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"Oh,
husband!" said the woman, terrified. "That was the devil. He didn't
mean the apple tree, but our daughter, who was just then standing behind the
mill sweeping the yard." </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The miller's
daughter was a beautiful and pious girl, and she lived the three years
worshipping God and without sin. When the time was up and the day came when the
evil one was to get her, she washed herself clean and drew a circle around
herself with chalk. The devil appeared very early in the morning, but he could
not approach her. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He spoke angrily
to the miller, "Keep water away from her, so she cannot wash herself anymore.
Otherwise, I have no power over her." </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The miller was
frightened and did what he was told. The next morning the devil returned, but
she had wept into her hands, and they were entirely clean. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Thus, he still
could not approach her, and he spoke angrily to the miller, "Chop off her
hands. Otherwise, I cannot get to her." </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> The miller
was horrified and answered, "How could I chop off my own child's
hands!" </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Then the evil one
threatened him, saying, "If you do not do it, then you will be mine, and I
will take you yourself." </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This frightened
the father, and he promised to obey him. Then he went to the girl and said,
"My child, if I do not chop off both of your hands, then the devil will
take me away, and in my fear, I have promised him to do this. Help me in my need
and forgive me of the evil that I am going to do to you." </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">She answered,
"Dear father, do with me what you will. I am but your child," and
with that she stretched forth both hands and let her father chop them off. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The devil came a
third time, but she had wept so long and so much onto the stumps, that they
were entirely clean. Then he had to give up, for he had lost all claim to her. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The miller spoke
to her, "I have gained great wealth through you. I shall take care of you
in splendor as long as you live." </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But she answered,
"I cannot remain here. I will go away. Compassionate people will give me
as much as I need." </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Then she had her
mutilated arms tied to her back, and at sunrise she set forth, walking the
entire day until it was night. She came to a royal garden, and by the light of
the moon she saw that inside there were trees full of beautiful fruit. But she
could not get inside, for there it was surrounded by water. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Having walked the
entire day without eating a bite, she was suffering from hunger, and she
thought, "Oh, if only I were inside the garden so I could eat of those
fruits. Otherwise, I shall perish." </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Then she kneeled
down and, crying out to God the Lord, she prayed. Suddenly an angel appeared.
He closed a head gate, so that the moat dried up, and she could walk through. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">She entered the
garden, and the angel went with her. She saw a fruit tree with beautiful pears,
but they had all been counted. She stepped up to the tree and ate from it with
her mouth, enough to satisfy her hunger, but no more. The gardener saw it
happen, but because the angel was standing by her he was afraid and thought
that the girl was a spirit. He said nothing and did not dare to call out nor to
speak to the spirit. After she had eaten the pear, she was full, and she went
and lay down in the brush. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The king who
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of the pears was missing. He asked the gardener what had happened to it. It was
not lying under the tree, but had somehow disappeared. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The gardener
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the pears with its mouth." </span></p>
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eaten the pear?" </span></p>
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head gate so the spirit could walk through the moat. Because it must have been
an angel, I was afraid, and I asked no questions, and I did not call out. After
the spirit had eaten the pear, it went away again." </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The king said,
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spirit. All three sat down under the tree and kept watch. At midnight the girl
came creeping out of the brush, stepped up to the tree, and again ate off a
pear with her mouth. An angel dressed in white was standing next to her. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The priest walked
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spirit or a human?" </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">She answered,
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except God." </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The king said,
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you." </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He took her home
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loved her with all his heart, had silver hands made for her, and took her as
his wife. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">After a year the
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care of his mother, saying, "If she has a child, support her and take good
care of her, and immediately send me the news in a letter." </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">She gave birth to
a beautiful son. The old mother quickly wrote this in a letter, giving the
joyful news to the king. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Now on the way
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asleep. Then the devil came to him. He still wanted to harm the pious queen,
and he took the letter, putting in its place one that stated that the queen had
brought a changeling into the world. When the king read this letter he was
frightened and saddened, but nevertheless he wrote an answer that they should
take good care of the queen until his return. The messenger returned with this
letter, but he rested at the same place, and again fell asleep. The devil came
again and placed a different letter in his bag. This letter said that they
should kill the queen with her child. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The old mother
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it, and wrote to the king again, but she got back the same answer, because each
time the devil substituted a false letter. And the last letter even stated that
they should keep the queen's tongue and eyes as proof. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The old mother
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doe killed, cut out its tongue and eyes, and had them put aside. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Then she said to
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no longer stay here. Go out into the wide world with your child, and never come
back." </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The old mother
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eyes. She came to a great, wild forest where she got onto her knees and prayed
to God. Then the angel of the Lord appeared to her and led her to a small
house. On it was a small sign with the words, "Here anyone can live
free." </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A snow-white
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inside. She untied the small boy from her back, held him to her breast so he
could drink, and then laid him in a beautiful made-up bed. </span></p>
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child." </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">She stayed in this
house for seven years and was well taken care of. And through the grace of God
and her own piety her chopped-off hands grew back. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The king finally
came back home from the battlefield, and the first thing he wanted to do was to
see his wife and their child. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Then the old
mother began to weep, saying, "You wicked man, why did you write to me
that I was to put two innocent souls to death," and she showed him the two
letters that the evil one had counterfeited. Then she continued to speak,
"I did what you ordered," and showed him as proof the eyes and the
tongue. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Then the king
began to weep even more bitterly for his poor wife and his little son, until
the old woman had mercy and said to him, "Be satisfied that she is still
alive. I secretly had a doe killed and took the proofs from it. I tied your
wife's child onto her back and told her to go out into the wide world, and she
had to promise never to come back here, because you were so angry with
her." </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Then the king
said, "I will go as far as the sky is blue and will neither eat nor drink
until I have found my dear wife and my child again, provided that in the
meantime they have not died or perished from hunger." </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Then the king
traveled about for nearly seven years, searching in all the stone cliffs and
caves, but he did not find her, and he thought that she had perished. He
neither ate nor drank during the entire time, but God kept him alive. Finally,
he came to a great forest, where he found a little house with a sign containing
the words, " Here anyone can live free." </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The white virgin
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King," then asked him where he had come from. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He answered,
"I have been traveling about for nearly seven years looking for my wife
and her child, but I cannot find them." </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The angel offered
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little. He lay down to sleep, covering his face with a cloth. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Then the angel
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called "Filled-with-Grief." </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The angel said to
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">She went to where
he was lying, and the cloth fell from his face. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Then she said,
"Filled-with-Grief, pick up the cloth for your father and put it over his
face again." </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The child picked
it up and put it over his face again. The king heard this in his sleep and let
the cloth fall again. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Then the little
boy grew impatient and said, "Mother, dear, how can I cover my father's
face? I have no father in this world. I have learned to pray, 'Our father which
art in heaven,' and you have said that my father is in heaven, and that he is
our dear God. How can I know such a wild man? He is not my father." </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Hearing this, the
king arose and asked who she was. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">She said, "I
am your wife, and this is your son Filled-with-Grief."</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">She answered,
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The angel went
into the other room, brought back the silver hands, and showed them to him. Now
he saw for sure that it was his dear wife and his dear child, and he kissed
them, and rejoiced, and said, "A heavy stone has fallen from my
heart."</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Then the angel of
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mother. There was great joy everywhere, and the king and the queen conducted
their wedding ceremony once again, and they lived happily until their blessed
end. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, "Das Mädchen ohne Hände," <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=y9tLAAAAIAAJ&pg=PP11#v=onepage&q&f=false" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><i>Kinder- und Hausmärchen</i></a>,
gesammelt durch die Brüder Grimm [Children's and Household Tales --
Grimms' Fairy Tales], 7th edition, vol. 1 (Göttingen: Verlag der
Dieterichschen Buchhandlung, 1857), no. 31, pp. 162-68. Found at: (<a href="https://sites.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm031.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank">https://sites.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm031.html</a>). <span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><i>Fairy Tales from Grimm.</i> Illustrations by Gordon Browne (1858-1932). </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">--------------------------------------</p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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is upsetting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It triggers you and brings
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</span>Folktales are representations of life, but when the underlying issue is
taboo, it reads more like a metaphor. The tale lies beneath the conscious mind,
and we find it both unsettling and inexplicable. We just can’t put the pieces together;
nothing makes perfect sense. Such is true for the Grimms’ story “The Girl
without Hands.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s a horrific tale of
a young girl whose father cuts off her hands, and how she must fare in the
world without them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s the one
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is more to the tale than that, but much in the story remains unanswered
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">It's a story with
many variants found throughout the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There is an equally large number of explanations to the story. Basically,
it is tale of dismembering and re-membering.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The how and why of that will be the nature of this blog.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I first heard the story, I thought it
was a piece of failed hagiography.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Hagiography contains the folk legends of the lives of the saints.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Popular in the medieval time period, the
stories of female saints followed the pattern of the virgin martyr. These
stories are filled with violence towards women’s bodies to achieve spiritual
purity. To do so they often cut off their breasts to become less
desirable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Spurned suitors tended to
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tortured or disfigured to avoid forced marriages or sexual assault. They
triumphed over death as powerful victors, who were ultimately united in heaven
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</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Hopefully, the reader could find in the story some similarity to hagiography as I have explained
it. On first glance, it does look at bit that way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But on further examination, it can be seen as
a failed attempt. The interpretation of saint Lives varies, for scholars have
conflicting views as to its importance. Some critics have argued that these
stories are misogynistic and even pornographic in the way they objectify women,
making them subject to male violence as a punishment for resisting male
desires. Others see these texts as victories of very strong women whose purity
is undaunted by any threat. Still others point out that the virgins’
adversaries tended to be authority figures and the saints’ disobedience may be
seen as a rebellion against tyranny generally.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">While the story
of “The Girl without Hands” reads like hagiography, it is without its
core.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The girl in this tale is pious and
pure but she never takes any action on her behalf.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She is not righteous or good.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By contrast, female saints speak out and
fight for their purity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are
heroines not passive pawns in a tale.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Some believe they were role models for the more heroic female characters
that appeared later in the Middle Ages. This idea of piety is a Roman ideal
which Cicero describes as that “which admonishes us to do our duty to our
country or our parents or other blood relations.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Girl without hands certainly matches that
ideal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She fulfills whatever mistaken
duty she has to her father by allowing him to cut off her hands (without any
resistance at all). But I’d argue this isn’t Christian piety.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For in the book of Matthew Jesus criticizes
the Pharisees for engaging in spiritual practices that called attention to themselves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This girl’s piety certainly called attention
to herself.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The Grimm
brothers recorded many different versions of this story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The first version (which we will discuss
later) was published in 1812. This story, however, was a 1857 mash-up of
several versions along with a new introduction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I found myself angry and unsettled after reading it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Storyteller, Susan Gordon, in “The Powers of
the Handless Maiden,” writes that this story “suggest[s] that a passive,
helpless, asexual and submissive existence for women is the ideal.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And that’s what began to anger me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How many women over the years read this
seemingly religious story and thought that being a “good girl” meant that they
had to accept incest, rape or domestic violence.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">If the reader is interested in seeing where my anger took me next, listen to my podcast "Hands Lost and Found" found on this site. <br /></span></p>
<p></p>wisecronecottagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06905728573029477284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-455236209379584574.post-12990244345942837232023-02-24T01:51:00.011-07:002023-02-24T13:03:05.036-07:00"Round the Yule Log" - Tales of the Norwegian Nisse<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWbieFYSFKkIeqTc3XvfMZoFTdFy4mUvXiuLDNpvYSM9UTEz2UqzzyYW2fghaccMw194HYfM-j9dR8vbvr9X6jYZuZxnLtxtuOzMtQ9tYaGrSLs-yn5tdmjpeBv8_HBjZsP9uQ99Icuem0vucT78NjaRPqOhVDxQq-WvlhBda07TY4xOL0sTjC__ihrA/s500/nisse.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="375" data-original-width="500" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWbieFYSFKkIeqTc3XvfMZoFTdFy4mUvXiuLDNpvYSM9UTEz2UqzzyYW2fghaccMw194HYfM-j9dR8vbvr9X6jYZuZxnLtxtuOzMtQ9tYaGrSLs-yn5tdmjpeBv8_HBjZsP9uQ99Icuem0vucT78NjaRPqOhVDxQq-WvlhBda07TY4xOL0sTjC__ihrA/s320/nisse.jpeg" width="320" /><br /></a></span></span></p><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo from Norwegian store selling Julenisse decorations.</span></i></div><span class="i0" style="display: block; 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-webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="above4" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">The wind was whistling through the old lime and maple trees opposite my windows, the snow was sweeping down the street, and the sky was black as a December sky can </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="above4" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">possibly be</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="above4" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> here in Christiania. I was in just as black a mood. It was Christmas </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="above4" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Eve, —</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="above4" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">the first I was to spend away from the cosey fireside of my home. I had lately received my officer's </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="above4" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">commission and</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="above4" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> had hoped that I should have gladdened my aged parents with my presence during the </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="above4" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">holidays and</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="above4" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> had also hoped that I </span><span class="NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="above4" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-image: var(--urlContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2, url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,PD94bWwgdmVyc2lvbj0iMS4wIiBlbmNvZGluZz0iVVRGLTgiPz4KPHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iNXB4IiBoZWlnaHQ9IjNweCIgdmlld0JveD0iMCAwIDUgMyIgdmVyc2lvbj0iMS4xIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHhtbG5zOnhsaW5rPSJodHRwOi8vd3d3LnczLm9yZy8xOTk5L3hsaW5rIj4KICAgIDwhLS0gR2VuZXJhdG9yOiBTa2V0Y2ggNTUuMiAoNzgxODEpIC0gaHR0cHM6Ly9za2V0Y2hhcHAuY29tIC0tPgogICAgPHRpdGxlPmdyYW1tYXJfZG91YmxlX2xpbmU8L3RpdGxlPgogICAgPGRlc2M+Q3JlYXRlZCB3aXRoIFNrZXRjaC48L2Rlc2M+CiAgICA8ZyBpZD0iZ3JhbW1hcl9kb3VibGVfbGluZSIgc3Ryb2tlPSJub25lIiBzdHJva2Utd2lkdGg9IjEiIGZpbGw9Im5vbmUiIGZpbGwtcnVsZT0iZXZlbm9kZCIgc3Ryb2tlLWxpbmVjYXA9InJvdW5kIj4KICAgICAgICA8ZyBpZD0iR3JhbW1hci1UaWxlLUNvcHkiIHN0cm9rZT0iIzMzNTVGRiI+CiAgICAgICAgICAgIDxwYXRoIGQ9Ik0wLDAuNSBMNSwwLjUiIGlkPSJMaW5lLTItQ29weS0xMCI+PC9wYXRoPgogICAgICAgICAgICA8cGF0aCBkPSJNMCwyLjUgTDUsMi41IiBpZD0iTGluZS0yLUNvcHktMTEiPjwvcGF0aD4KICAgICAgICA8L2c+CiAgICA8L2c+Cjwvc3ZnPg==")); background-position: 0% 100%; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">should</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="above4" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> be able to show myself in all my glory and </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="above4" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">splendor</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="above4" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> to the ladies of our parish. But a fever had brought me to the hospital, which I had left only a week before, and now I found myself in the much-extolled state of convalescence. I had written home for a horse and sledge and my father's fur coat, but my letter could scarcely reach our valley before the day after Christmas, and the horse could not be in town before New Year's Eve.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":276}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW264334318 BCX0" paraeid="{316d5b63-2177-431f-9e35-90c801a01116}{178}" paraid="451492353" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="EOP SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":276}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW264334318 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW264334318 BCX0" paraeid="{316d5b63-2177-431f-9e35-90c801a01116}{200}" paraid="6489176" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">My comrades had all left town, and I knew no family with whom I could make myself at home during the holidays. The two old </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">maids</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> I lodged with were certainly </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">very kind</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> and friendly people, and they had taken great care of me in the commencement of my illness, but the peculiar ways and habits of these ladies were too much of the old school to prove attractive to the fancies of youth. Their thoughts dwelt mostly on the past, and when they, as often might occur, related to me some stories of the town, its people and its customs, these stories reminded me, not only by their contents</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">but also by the simple, unaffected way in which they were </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">rendered</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, of a past age.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":276}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW264334318 BCX0" paraeid="{316d5b63-2177-431f-9e35-90c801a01116}{200}" paraid="6489176" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="EOP SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":276}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW264334318 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW264334318 BCX0" paraeid="{316d5b63-2177-431f-9e35-90c801a01116}{210}" paraid="1269509032" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">The antiquated appearance of these ladies was also in the strictest harmony with the house in which they lived. It was one of those old houses in Custom House Street, with deep windows, long dark passages and staircases, gloomy </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">rooms,</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> and garrets, where one could not help thinking of ghosts and nissen; in short, just such a house, and perhaps it was the very one, which Mauritz Hansen has described in his story, "The Old Dame with the Hood." Their circle of acquaintances was </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">very limited</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">; besides a married sister and her children, no other visitors came there but a couple of tiresome old ladies. 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It amused me to see the bustle and the life in the apothecary's shop across the street. The door was scarcely shut for a moment. Servants and peasants streamed in and out, and </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">commenced</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> to study the labels and directions when they came out in the street. 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I could not distinguish the countenances </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">any </span><span class="NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-image: var(--urlContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2, url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,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")); background-position: 0% 100%; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">longer, but</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> gazed across at the old building. The apothecary's house, "The Swan," as it is still called, stood there, with its dark, reddish-brown walls, its pointed </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">gables</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> and towers, with </span><span class="NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-image: var(--urlContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2, url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,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")); background-position: 0% 100%; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">weather-cocks</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> and latticed windows, as a monument of the architecture of the time of King Christian the Fourth. The Swan looked then, as now, a most respectable and sedate bird, with its gold ring round its neck, its spur-boots, and its wings stretched out as if to fly. I was about to plunge myself into reflection on imprisoned birds when I was disturbed by noise and laughter </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">proceeding</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> from some children in the adjoining room and by a gentle, old-maidish</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">knock at my door.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":276}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW264334318 BCX0" paraeid="{316d5b63-2177-431f-9e35-90c801a01116}{220}" paraid="11975310" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="EOP SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":276}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW264334318 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW264334318 BCX0" paraeid="{316d5b63-2177-431f-9e35-90c801a01116}{240}" paraid="2051481316" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">On my requesting the </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">visitor</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle-defn="{"ObjectId":"3c7066aa-0719-4b54-9f4e-a21b18c236d5|7","ClassId":1073872969,"Properties":[469775450,"pagenum",201340122,"1",134233614,"true",469778129,"pagenum",335572020,"1",469778324,"Default Paragraph Font"]}" data-ccp-charstyle="pagenum" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">to come in, the elder of my landladies, Miss Mette, entered the room with a courtesy in the good old style; she inquired after my health, and invited me, without further ceremony, to come and make myself at home with them for the evening. "It isn't good for you, dear Lieutenant, to sit thus alone here in the dark," she added. "Will you not come </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">into</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> us now at once? Old Mother </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Skau</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> and my brother's little girls have come; they will perhaps amuse you a little. You are so fond of the dear children."</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":276}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW264334318 BCX0" paraeid="{316d5b63-2177-431f-9e35-90c801a01116}{240}" paraid="2051481316" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="EOP SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":276}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW264334318 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW264334318 BCX0" paraeid="{12059438-986b-4f98-91c7-7c2875c666fb}{5}" paraid="1464091979" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">I accepted the friendly invitation. As I entered the room, the fire from the large square stove, where the logs were burning lustily, threw a red, flickering light through the wide-open door over the room, which was very deep, and furnished in the old style, with high-back, Russia leather chairs, and one of those settees which were intended for farthingales and straight up-and-down positions. The walls were adorned with</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">oil paintings, portraits of stiff ladies with powdered coiffures, of bewigged </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Oldenborgians</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, and other redoubtable persons in mail and </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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-webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">"You must really excuse us, Lieutenant, for not having lighted the candles yet," said Miss Cicely, the younger sister, who was generally called "</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Cilly</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">," and who came towards me and dropped a courtesy, exactly like her sister's; "but the children do so like to tumble about here before the fire in the dusk of the evening, and Madam </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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"Come and sit down here and tell me how it fares with you, but, by my troth, you are nothing but skin and bones!"</span><span class="EOP SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":276}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW264334318 BCX0" paraeid="{12059438-986b-4f98-91c7-7c2875c666fb}{55}" paraid="1477601577" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="EOP SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":276}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">"Oh, auntie, do you know what Stine says?" cried a </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">little, brown-eyed</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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"</span><span class="NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-image: var(--urlContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2, url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,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")); background-position: 0% 100%; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">She</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> says I shall go with her into the </span><span class="NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-image: var(--urlContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2, url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,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")); background-position: 0% 100%; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">hay-loft</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-image: var(--urlContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2, url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,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")); background-position: 0% 100%; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">tonight</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> and give the nisse his Christmas porridge. 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"But are you not going to say good evening to the Lieutenant, children?"</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":276}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW264334318 BCX0" paraeid="{12059438-986b-4f98-91c7-7c2875c666fb}{85}" paraid="1721487503" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="EOP SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":276}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: arial; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW264334318 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW264334318 BCX0" paraeid="{12059438-986b-4f98-91c7-7c2875c666fb}{95}" paraid="43837223" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">"Oh, is that you, Lieutenant? I did not know you. How pale you are! It is such a long time since I saw you!" shouted the children all at once as they flocked round me.</span><span class="EOP SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":276}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW264334318 BCX0" paraeid="{12059438-986b-4f98-91c7-7c2875c666fb}{95}" paraid="43837223" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="EOP SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":276}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW264334318 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW264334318 BCX0" paraeid="{12059438-986b-4f98-91c7-7c2875c666fb}{101}" paraid="1482454923" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">"Now you must tell us something awfully jolly! It is such a long time since you told us anything. Oh, tell us about Buttercup, dear Mr. Lieutenant, do tell us about Buttercup and </span><span class="NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-image: var(--urlSpellingErrorV2, url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,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")); 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background-position: 0% 100%; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Goldentooth</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, but they would not let me off until I gave them a couple of stories into the bargain about the nissen at </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Vager</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> and at Bure, who stole hay from each other, and who met at</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">last with a load of hay on their backs, and how they fought till they vanished in a cloud of hay-dust. I </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">had also</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> to tell them the story of the nisse at </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Hesselberg</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, who teased the </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">housedog</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> till the farmer came out and threw him over the barn bridge. The children clapped their hands in </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">great joy</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> and laughed heartily.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":276}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW264334318 BCX0" paraeid="{12059438-986b-4f98-91c7-7c2875c666fb}{111}" paraid="1851975696" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">"It served him right, the naughty nisse!" they shouted and asked for another story.</span><span class="EOP SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":276}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW264334318 BCX0" paraeid="{12059438-986b-4f98-91c7-7c2875c666fb}{137}" paraid="1042668861" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">"Well," said I, "I will tell you the story of Peter </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Gynt</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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He dressed himself in some </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">old, ragged</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> clothes and took a tame white bear which he had with </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">him, as well as an awl, some pitch and twine. 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They had a fiddler with them, and some began dancing while others fell to eating the Christmas fare on the </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">table —</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">some fried bacon, and some fried frogs and toads, and other nasty things which they had brought with them. During this some of the trolls found the shoe Peter had made. They thought it must belong to </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">a very big</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> foot. They all wanted to try it on at once, so they put a foot each into it; but Peter made haste and tightened the rope, took one of the handspikes and fastened the rope around it, and got them at last securely tied up in the shoe.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":276}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW264334318 BCX0" paraeid="{12059438-986b-4f98-91c7-7c2875c666fb}{227}" paraid="1808364397" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="EOP SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":276}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: arial; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW264334318 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW264334318 BCX0" paraeid="{12059438-986b-4f98-91c7-7c2875c666fb}{237}" paraid="710811673" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">"Just then, the bear put his nose out from behind the fireplace, where he was lying, and smelt they were frying something.</span><span class="EOP SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":276}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW264334318 BCX0" paraeid="{12059438-986b-4f98-91c7-7c2875c666fb}{237}" paraid="710811673" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="EOP SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":276}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW264334318 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW264334318 BCX0" paraeid="{12059438-986b-4f98-91c7-7c2875c666fb}{243}" paraid="2013409415" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">"'Will you have a sausage, pussy?' said one of the trolls and threw a hot frog right into the bear's jaws.</span><span class="EOP SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":276}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW264334318 BCX0" paraeid="{12059438-986b-4f98-91c7-7c2875c666fb}{243}" paraid="2013409415" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="EOP SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":276}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: arial; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW264334318 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW264334318 BCX0" paraeid="{12059438-986b-4f98-91c7-7c2875c666fb}{249}" paraid="118265317" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">"'Scratch them, pussy!' said Peter.</span><span class="EOP SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":276}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW264334318 BCX0" paraeid="{12059438-986b-4f98-91c7-7c2875c666fb}{249}" paraid="118265317" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="EOP SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":276}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW264334318 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW264334318 BCX0" paraeid="{12059438-986b-4f98-91c7-7c2875c666fb}{255}" paraid="148842130" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">"The bear got so angry that he rushed at the trolls and scratched them all over while Peter took the other handspike and hammered away at them as if he wanted to beat their brains out. The trolls had to clear out at last, but Peter stayed and enjoyed himself with all the Christmas fare the whole week. After </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">that</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> the trolls were not heard of there for many years.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":276}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW264334318 BCX0" paraeid="{12059438-986b-4f98-91c7-7c2875c666fb}{255}" paraid="148842130" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="EOP SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":276}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW264334318 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW264334318 BCX0" paraeid="{6916f190-0c51-44dd-8407-9059813e7498}{6}" paraid="1943494973" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: arial; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">"Some years afterwards, about Christmas time, Peter was out in the forest cutting wood for the holidays when a troll came up to him and </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">shouted —</span></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW264334318 BCX0" paraeid="{6916f190-0c51-44dd-8407-9059813e7498}{6}" paraid="1943494973" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="EOP SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":276}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: arial; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW264334318 BCX0" paraeid="{6916f190-0c51-44dd-8407-9059813e7498}{6}" paraid="1943494973" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">"'Have you got that big pussy of yours yet?'</span><span class="EOP SCXW264334318 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":276}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW264334318 BCX0" paraeid="{6916f190-0c51-44dd-8407-9059813e7498}{6}" paraid="1943494973" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="EOP SCXW264334318 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":276}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW264334318 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW264334318 BCX0" paraeid="{6916f190-0c51-44dd-8407-9059813e7498}{20}" paraid="2016809100" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">"'Oh, yes! she is at home behind the fireplace,' said he, 'and she has got seven kittens, all bigger and larger than herself.'</span><span class="EOP SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":276}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> "</span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW264334318 BCX0" paraeid="{6916f190-0c51-44dd-8407-9059813e7498}{20}" paraid="2016809100" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="EOP SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":276}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW264334318 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW264334318 BCX0" paraeid="{6916f190-0c51-44dd-8407-9059813e7498}{26}" paraid="1294318822" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">'We'll never come to you </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">anymore</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, then,' said the troll, and they never did."</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":276}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW264334318 BCX0" paraeid="{6916f190-0c51-44dd-8407-9059813e7498}{26}" paraid="1294318822" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="EOP SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":276}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW264334318 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW264334318 BCX0" paraeid="{6916f190-0c51-44dd-8407-9059813e7498}{36}" paraid="1003269908" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">The children were all delighted with this story.</span><span class="EOP SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":276}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW264334318 BCX0" paraeid="{6916f190-0c51-44dd-8407-9059813e7498}{42}" paraid="912613080" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">"Tell us another, dear Lieutenant," they all shouted in chorus.</span><span class="EOP SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":276}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW264334318 BCX0" paraeid="{6916f190-0c51-44dd-8407-9059813e7498}{48}" paraid="1777619038" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">"No, no, children! You bother the Lieutenant too much," said Miss Cicely. "Aunt Mette will tell you a story now."</span><span class="EOP SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":276}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW264334318 BCX0" paraeid="{6916f190-0c51-44dd-8407-9059813e7498}{48}" paraid="1777619038" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="EOP SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":276}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; 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line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">"Yes, do, auntie, do!" was the general cry.</span><span class="EOP SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":276}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW264334318 BCX0" paraeid="{6916f190-0c51-44dd-8407-9059813e7498}{54}" paraid="1555834477" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="EOP SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":276}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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-webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">"I don't know exactly what I shall tell you," </span><span class="NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-image: var(--urlContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2, url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,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")); 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You remember, of course, old Kari </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Gausdal</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, who came here and baked bread, and who always had so many tales to tell you."</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":276}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW264334318 BCX0" paraeid="{6916f190-0c51-44dd-8407-9059813e7498}{60}" paraid="958069821" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">"Oh, yes, yes!" shouted the children.</span><span class="EOP SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":276}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW264334318 BCX0" paraeid="{6916f190-0c51-44dd-8407-9059813e7498}{74}" paraid="1531676013" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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That asylum is a dark and dismal place, I can tell you. Well, when Kari came </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">there,</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> she was </span><span class="NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-image: var(--urlContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2, url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,PD94bWwgdmVyc2lvbj0iMS4wIiBlbmNvZGluZz0iVVRGLTgiPz4KPHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iNXB4IiBoZWlnaHQ9IjNweCIgdmlld0JveD0iMCAwIDUgMyIgdmVyc2lvbj0iMS4xIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHhtbG5zOnhsaW5rPSJodHRwOi8vd3d3LnczLm9yZy8xOTk5L3hsaW5rIj4KICAgIDwhLS0gR2VuZXJhdG9yOiBTa2V0Y2ggNTUuMiAoNzgxODEpIC0gaHR0cHM6Ly9za2V0Y2hhcHAuY29tIC0tPgogICAgPHRpdGxlPmdyYW1tYXJfZG91YmxlX2xpbmU8L3RpdGxlPgogICAgPGRlc2M+Q3JlYXRlZCB3aXRoIFNrZXRjaC48L2Rlc2M+CiAgICA8ZyBpZD0iZ3JhbW1hcl9kb3VibGVfbGluZSIgc3Ryb2tlPSJub25lIiBzdHJva2Utd2lkdGg9IjEiIGZpbGw9Im5vbmUiIGZpbGwtcnVsZT0iZXZlbm9kZCIgc3Ryb2tlLWxpbmVjYXA9InJvdW5kIj4KICAgICAgICA8ZyBpZD0iR3JhbW1hci1UaWxlLUNvcHkiIHN0cm9rZT0iIzMzNTVGRiI+CiAgICAgICAgICAgIDxwYXRoIGQ9Ik0wLDAuNSBMNSwwLjUiIGlkPSJMaW5lLTItQ29weS0xMCI+PC9wYXRoPgogICAgICAgICAgICA8cGF0aCBkPSJNMCwyLjUgTDUsMi41IiBpZD0iTGluZS0yLUNvcHktMTEiPjwvcGF0aD4KICAgICAgICA8L2c+CiAgICA8L2c+Cjwvc3ZnPg==")); background-position: 0% 100%; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">cook</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, and a very smart and clever girl she was. She had, one day, to get up </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">very early</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> in the morning to brew, when the other servants said to </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">her —</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":276}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW264334318 BCX0" paraeid="{6916f190-0c51-44dd-8407-9059813e7498}{80}" paraid="2068487055" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="EOP SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":276}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW264334318 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW264334318 BCX0" paraeid="{6916f190-0c51-44dd-8407-9059813e7498}{92}" paraid="778913822" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">"'You had better mind you </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">don't</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> get up too early, and you </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">mustn't</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> put any fire under the copper before two o'clock.'</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":276}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW264334318 BCX0" paraeid="{6916f190-0c51-44dd-8407-9059813e7498}{92}" paraid="778913822" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="EOP SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":276}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW264334318 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW264334318 BCX0" paraeid="{6916f190-0c51-44dd-8407-9059813e7498}{98}" paraid="829717374" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">"'Why?' she asked.</span><span class="EOP SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":276}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW264334318 BCX0" paraeid="{6916f190-0c51-44dd-8407-9059813e7498}{98}" paraid="829717374" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="EOP SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":276}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW264334318 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW264334318 BCX0" paraeid="{6916f190-0c51-44dd-8407-9059813e7498}{104}" paraid="1555197282" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">"'Don't you know there is a nisse here? And you ought to know that those people don't like to be disturbed so early,' they said, 'and before two o'clock, you mustn't light the fire by any means.'</span><span class="EOP SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":276}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW264334318 BCX0" paraeid="{6916f190-0c51-44dd-8407-9059813e7498}{104}" paraid="1555197282" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="EOP SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":276}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: arial; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW264334318 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW264334318 BCX0" paraeid="{6916f190-0c51-44dd-8407-9059813e7498}{110}" paraid="1142633964" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">"'Is that all?' said Kari. She was anything but chicken-hearted. 'I have nothing to do with that nisse of yours, but if he comes in my way, why, by my faith, I will send him head over heels through the door.'</span><span class="EOP SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":276}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW264334318 BCX0" paraeid="{6916f190-0c51-44dd-8407-9059813e7498}{110}" paraid="1142633964" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="EOP SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":276}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW264334318 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW264334318 BCX0" paraeid="{6916f190-0c51-44dd-8407-9059813e7498}{116}" paraid="1659926809" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">"The others warned her, but she did not care a bit, and next morning, just as the clock struck one, she got up and lighted the fire under the copper in the brewhouse; but the fire went out in a moment. Somebody appeared to be throwing the logs about on the hearth, but she could not </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">see who it was. She gathered the logs together, one at a time, but it was of no use, and the chimney would not draw, either. She got tired of this at last, took a burning log and ran around the room with it, swinging it high and low while she shouted, 'Be gone, be gone whence you came! If you think you can frighten </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">me,</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> you are mistaken.' 'Curse you!' somebody hissed in one of the darkest corners. 'I have had seven souls in this house; I thought I should have got eight in all!' 'But from that time nobody saw or heard the nisse in the asylum,' said Kari </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Gausdal</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">."</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":276}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW264334318 BCX0" paraeid="{6916f190-0c51-44dd-8407-9059813e7498}{116}" paraid="1659926809" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="EOP SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":276}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW264334318 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW264334318 BCX0" paraeid="{6916f190-0c51-44dd-8407-9059813e7498}{132}" paraid="1046646827" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">"I am getting so frightened!" said one of the children. "No, you must tell us some more stories, Lieutenant; I never feel afraid when you tell us anything, because you tell us such jolly tales." Another proposed that I should tell them about the nisse who danced the </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Halling</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> dance with the lassie. That was a tale I didn't care much about, as there was some singing in it. But they would on no account let me off, and I was going to clear my throat and prepare my exceedingly inharmonious voice to sing the </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Halling</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> dance, which belongs to the story, when the pretty niece, whom I have already referred to, entered the room, to the great joy of the children and to my rescue.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":276}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW264334318 BCX0" paraeid="{6916f190-0c51-44dd-8407-9059813e7498}{132}" paraid="1046646827" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="EOP SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":276}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW264334318 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW264334318 BCX0" paraeid="{6916f190-0c51-44dd-8407-9059813e7498}{146}" paraid="1715577990" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">"Well, my dear children, I will tell you the story if you can get </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">cousin</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> Lizzie to sing the </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Halling</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> for you," said I, as she sat down, "and then you'll dance to it yourselves, won't you?"</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":276}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW264334318 BCX0" paraeid="{6916f190-0c51-44dd-8407-9059813e7498}{146}" paraid="1715577990" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="EOP SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":276}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW264334318 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW264334318 BCX0" paraeid="{6916f190-0c51-44dd-8407-9059813e7498}{160}" paraid="2136055779" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Cousin Lizzie was besieged by the children, and had to promise to do the singing, so I commenced my story.</span><span class="EOP SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":276}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW264334318 BCX0" paraeid="{6916f190-0c51-44dd-8407-9059813e7498}{160}" paraid="2136055779" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="EOP SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":276}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW264334318 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW264334318 BCX0" paraeid="{6916f190-0c51-44dd-8407-9059813e7498}{166}" paraid="1105877404" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">"There was, once upon a time—I almost think it was in Hallingdal,—a lassie who was sent up into the hay-loft with the cream porridge for the nisse—I cannot recollect if it was on a Thursday or on a Christmas Eve, but I think it was a Christmas Eve. Well, she thought it was a great pity to give the nisse such a dainty dish, so she ate the porridge herself and the melted butter in the bargain and went up into the hay-loft with the plain oatmeal porridge and sour milk in a pig's trough instead. 'There, that's good enough for you, Master Nisse,' she said. But no sooner had she spoken the words than the nisse stood right before her, seized her round the waist, and danced about with her, which he kept up till she lay gasping for breath, and when the people came up into the hay-loft in the morning, she was more dead than alive. But as long as they danced, the nisse sang," (and here Cousin Lizzie undertook his part, and sang to the tune of the Halling)—</span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW264334318 BCX0" paraeid="{6916f190-0c51-44dd-8407-9059813e7498}{166}" paraid="1105877404" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW264334318 BCX0" paraeid="{6916f190-0c51-44dd-8407-9059813e7498}{166}" paraid="1105877404" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">"And you have eaten the porridge for the nisse,</span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW264334318 BCX0" paraeid="{6916f190-0c51-44dd-8407-9059813e7498}{166}" paraid="1105877404" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">And you shall dance with the little nisse!</span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW264334318 BCX0" paraeid="{6916f190-0c51-44dd-8407-9059813e7498}{166}" paraid="1105877404" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW264334318 BCX0" paraeid="{6916f190-0c51-44dd-8407-9059813e7498}{166}" paraid="1105877404" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">"And have you eaten the porridge for the nisse?</span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW264334318 BCX0" paraeid="{6916f190-0c51-44dd-8407-9059813e7498}{166}" paraid="1105877404" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Then you shall dance with the little nisse!"</span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW264334318 BCX0" paraeid="{6916f190-0c51-44dd-8407-9059813e7498}{166}" paraid="1105877404" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW264334318 BCX0" paraeid="{6916f190-0c51-44dd-8407-9059813e7498}{166}" paraid="1105877404" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I assisted in keeping time by stamping on the floor with my feet while the children romped about the room in uproarious joy.</span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-top: 0.75em; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">"I think you are turning the house upside down, children!" said old Mother Skau, "if you'll be quiet, I'll give you a story."<br /></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW264334318 BCX0" paraeid="{6916f190-0c51-44dd-8407-9059813e7498}{166}" paraid="1105877404" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: left; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: medium; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: arial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-top: 0.75em; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The children were soon quiet, and Mother Skau commenced as follows:</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-top: 0.75em; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">"You hear a great deal about nissen and fairies and such like beings, but I don't believe there is much in it. I have neither seen one nor the other. Of course I have not been so very much about in my lifetime, but I believe it is all nonsense. But old Stine out in the kitchen there, she says she has seen the nisse. About the time when I was confirmed she was in service with my parents. She came to us from a captain's, who had given up the sea. It was a very quiet place. The captain only took a walk as far as the quay every day. They always went to bed early. People said there was a nisse in the house. Well, it so happened that Stine and the cook were sitting in their room one evening, mending and darning their things; it was near bedtime, for the watchman had already sung out 'Ten o'clock!' but somehow the darning and the sewing went on very slowly indeed; every moment 'Jack Nap' came and played his tricks upon them. At one moment, Stine was nodding and nodding, and then came the cook's turn—they could not keep their eyes open; they had been up early that morning to wash clothes. But just as they were sitting thus, they heard a terrible crash down stairs in the kitchen, and Stine shouted, 'Lor' bless and preserve us! it must be the nisse.' She was so frightened she dared scarcely move a foot, but at last the cook plucked up courage and went down into the kitchen, closely followed by Stine. </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">When they opened the kitchen door, they found all the crockery on the floor, but none of it broken, while the nisse was standing on the big kitchen table with his red cap on and hurling one dish after the other on to the floor, and laughing in great glee. The cook had heard that the nisse could sometimes be tricked into moving into another house when anybody would tell them of a very quiet place, and as she long had been wishing for an opportunity to play a trick upon this nisse, she took courage and spoke to him,—her voice was a little shaky at the time,—that he ought to remove to the tinman's over the way, where it was so very quiet and pleasant, because they always went to bed at nine o'clock every evening; which was true enough, as the cook told Stine later, but then the master and all his apprentices and journeymen were up every morning at three o'clock and hammered away and made a terrible noise all day. Since that day, they have not seen the nisse any more at the captain's. He seemed to feel quite at home at the tinman's, although they were hammering and tapping away there all day, but people said that the gude-wife put a dish of porridge up in the garret for him every Thursday evening, and it's no wonder that they got on well and became rich when they had a nisse in the house. Stine believed he brought things to them. Whether it was the nisse or not who really helped them, I cannot say," said Mother Skau, in conclusion, and got a fit of coughing and choking after the exertion of telling this, for her, unusually long story.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-top: 0.75em; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; user-select: text; white-space: pre-wrap;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">When she had taken a pinch of snuff, she felt better, and became quite cheerful again, and </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">began: —</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW264334318 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":276}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; user-select: text; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW264334318 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW264334318 BCX0" paraeid="{6916f190-0c51-44dd-8407-9059813e7498}{230}" paraid="2883358" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">"My mother, who, by the way, was a truthful woman, told a story which happened here in the town one Christmas Eve. I know it is true, for an untrue word never passed her lips."</span><span class="EOP SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":276}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW264334318 BCX0" paraeid="{6916f190-0c51-44dd-8407-9059813e7498}{230}" paraid="2883358" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="EOP SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":276}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW264334318 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW264334318 BCX0" paraeid="{6916f190-0c51-44dd-8407-9059813e7498}{236}" paraid="853992598" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">"Let us hear it, Madame </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Skau</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">," said I.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":276}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW264334318 BCX0" paraeid="{6916f190-0c51-44dd-8407-9059813e7498}{236}" paraid="853992598" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="EOP SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":276}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW264334318 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW264334318 BCX0" paraeid="{6916f190-0c51-44dd-8407-9059813e7498}{246}" paraid="1591483211" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">"Yes, tell, tell, Mother </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Skau</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">!" cried the children.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":276}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW264334318 BCX0" paraeid="{6916f190-0c51-44dd-8407-9059813e7498}{246}" paraid="1591483211" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="EOP SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":276}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW264334318 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW264334318 BCX0" paraeid="{16833b1a-dd49-4fc6-8080-56844614f10d}{1}" paraid="1024457585" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">She coughed a little, took another pinch of snuff, and </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">proceeded: —</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":276}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW264334318 BCX0" paraeid="{16833b1a-dd49-4fc6-8080-56844614f10d}{1}" paraid="1024457585" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="EOP SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":276}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: arial; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW264334318 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW264334318 BCX0" paraeid="{16833b1a-dd49-4fc6-8080-56844614f10d}{9}" paraid="824834627" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">"When my mother still was in her teens, she used sometimes to visit a widow whom she knew, and whose name </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">was —</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">dear me, what was her name?—Madame—yes, Madame </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Evensen</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, of course. She was a woman who had seen the best part of her life, but whether she lived up in Mill Street or down in the corner by the Little Church Hill, I cannot say for certain. Well, one Christmas Eve, just like to-night, she thought she would go to the morning service on the Christmas Day, for she was a great church-goer, and so she left out some coffee with the girl before she went to bed, that she might get a cup next morning,—she was sure a cup of warm coffee would do her a great deal of good at that early hour. When she woke, the moon was shining into the room; but when she got up to look at the </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">clock,</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> she found it had stopped and that the fingers pointed to half-past eleven. She had no idea what time it could be, so</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">she went to the window and looked across to the church. The light was streaming out through all the </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">windows. She must have overslept herself! She called the girl and told her to get the coffee ready while she dressed herself. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">So</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> she took her hymn-book and started for church. The street was very quiet; she did not meet a single person on her way to church. When she went inside, she sat down in her customary seat in one of the pews, but when she looked around her, she thought that the people were so pale and so </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">strange —</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">exactly as if they were all dead. She did not know any of them, but there were several of them she seemed to recollect having seen before; but when and where she had seen </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">them,</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> she could not call to mind. When the minister came into the pulpit, she saw that he was not one of the ministers in the town, but a tall, pale man, whose face, however, she thought she could recollect. He preached very nicely indeed, and there was not the usual noisy coughing</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">and hawking which you always hear at the morning services on a Christmas Day; it was so quiet, you could have heard a needle drop on the </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">floor—</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">in fact, it was so quiet she began to feel quite uneasy and uncomfortable. When the singing commenced again, a female who sat next to her leant towards her and whispered in her ear, 'Throw the cloak loosely around you and go, because if you wait here till the service is </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">over,</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> they will make short work of you. It is the dead who are keeping service.'"</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":276}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW264334318 BCX0" paraeid="{16833b1a-dd49-4fc6-8080-56844614f10d}{9}" paraid="824834627" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="EOP SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":276}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW264334318 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW264334318 BCX0" paraeid="{16833b1a-dd49-4fc6-8080-56844614f10d}{57}" paraid="846375511" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">"Oh, Mother </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Skau</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, I feel so frightened, I feel so frightened!" whimpered one of the </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">children and</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> climbed up on a chair.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":276}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW264334318 BCX0" paraeid="{16833b1a-dd49-4fc6-8080-56844614f10d}{57}" paraid="846375511" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="EOP SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":276}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW264334318 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW264334318 BCX0" paraeid="{16833b1a-dd49-4fc6-8080-56844614f10d}{71}" paraid="2084169482" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">"Hush, hush, child!" said Mother </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Skau</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. "She got away from them safe enough; only listen! When the widow heard the voice of the person next to her, she turned round to look at </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">her —</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">but what a start she got! She recognized her; it was her </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">neighbor</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> who died many years ago, and when she looked around the church, she remembered well that she had seen both the minister and several of the congregation before and that they had died long ago. This sent quite a cold shiver through her; she became that frightened. She threw the cloak loosely round her, as the female next to her had said, and went out of the pew, but she thought they all turned round and stretched out their hands after her. Her legs shook under her till she thought she would sink down on the church floor. When she came out on the steps, she felt that they had got hold of her cloak; she let it go and left it in their clutches while she hurried home</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">as quickly as she could. When she came to the door, the clock struck one, and by the time she got inside, she was</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">nearly half </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">dead —</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">she was that frightened. In the morning, when the people went to church, they found the cloak lying on the steps, but it was torn into a thousand pieces. My mother had often seen the cloak before, and I think she saw one of the pieces, also; but that doesn't matter—it was a short, pink, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">woolen</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> cloak, with fur lining and borders, such as was still in use in my childhood. They are very rarely seen nowadays, but there are some old ladies in the town and down at the 'Home' whom I see with such cloaks in church at Christmas time."</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":276}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW264334318 BCX0" paraeid="{16833b1a-dd49-4fc6-8080-56844614f10d}{71}" paraid="2084169482" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="EOP SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":276}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW264334318 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW264334318 BCX0" paraeid="{16833b1a-dd49-4fc6-8080-56844614f10d}{105}" paraid="538761013" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">The children, who had expressed considerable fear and uneasiness during the latter part of the story, declared they would not hear any more such terrible stories. They had crept up into the </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">sofa and on the chairs, but still they thought they felt somebody plucking at them from underneath the table. Suddenly the lights were brought in, and we discovered then, to our great amusement, that the children had put their legs on to the table. The lights, the Christmas cake, the jellies, the tarts and the wine soon chased away the horrible ghost story and all fear from their minds, revived everybody's spirits, and brought the conversation on to their </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">neighbors</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> and the topics of the day. Finally, our thoughts took a flight towards something more substantial, on the appearance of the Christmas porridge and the roast ribs of pork. We broke up </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">early and</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> parted with the best wishes for a Merry Christmas. I passed, however, a very uneasy night. I do not know whether it was the stories, the substantial supper, my weak condition, or all these combined, which was the cause of it; I tossed myself hither and thither in my bed, and got mixed up with nissen, fairies and ghosts the whole night. Finally, I sailed through the air towards the church while some merry sledge-bells were ringing in my ears. The church was lighted up, and when I came </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">inside,</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> I saw it was our own church up in the valley. There</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">were nobody there but peasants in their red caps, soldiers in full uniform, country lasses with their white head-dresses and red cheeks. The minister was in the pulpit; it was my grandfather, who died when I was a little boy. But just as he was in the middle of the sermon, he made a somersault—he was known as one of the smartest men in the parish—right into the middle of the church; the surplice flew one way and the collar another. "There lies the parson, and here am I," he said, with one of his well-known airs, "and now let us have a spring dance!" In an instant the whole of the congregation was </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">in the midst of</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> a wild dance. A </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">big tall</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> peasant came towards me and took me by the shoulder and said, "You'll have to join us, my </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">lad</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">!"</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":276}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW264334318 BCX0" paraeid="{16833b1a-dd49-4fc6-8080-56844614f10d}{105}" paraid="538761013" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="EOP SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":276}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW264334318 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW264334318 BCX0" paraeid="{16833b1a-dd49-4fc6-8080-56844614f10d}{141}" paraid="226017864" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">At this moment, I </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">awoke and</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> felt some one pulling at my shoulder. I could scarcely believe my eyes when I saw the same peasant whom I had seen in my dream leaning over me. There he was, with the red cap down over his ears, a big fur coat over his arm, and a pair of big eyes looking fixedly at me.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":276}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW264334318 BCX0" paraeid="{16833b1a-dd49-4fc6-8080-56844614f10d}{141}" paraid="226017864" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="EOP SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":276}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: arial; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW264334318 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW264334318 BCX0" paraeid="{16833b1a-dd49-4fc6-8080-56844614f10d}{151}" paraid="1824650805" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">"You must be dreaming," he said, "the perspiration is standing in big drops on your forehead, and you were sleeping as heavily as a bear in his lair! God's peace and a</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">merry Christmas to you, I say! and greetings to you from your father and all yours up in the valley. Here's a letter from your father, and the horse is waiting for you out in the yard."</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":276}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW264334318 BCX0" paraeid="{16833b1a-dd49-4fc6-8080-56844614f10d}{151}" paraid="1824650805" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="EOP SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":276}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW264334318 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW264334318 BCX0" paraeid="{16833b1a-dd49-4fc6-8080-56844614f10d}{161}" paraid="1745827322" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">"</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">But,</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> good heavens! is that you, Thor?" I shouted in great joy. It was indeed my father's man, a splendid specimen of a Norwegian peasant. "How in the world have you come here already?"</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":276}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW264334318 BCX0" paraeid="{16833b1a-dd49-4fc6-8080-56844614f10d}{161}" paraid="1745827322" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="EOP SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":276}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: arial; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW264334318 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW264334318 BCX0" paraeid="{16833b1a-dd49-4fc6-8080-56844614f10d}{171}" paraid="841808208" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">"Ah! that I can soon tell you,</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">" answered</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> Thor. "I came with your </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">favorite</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, the bay mare. I had to take your father down to </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Næs</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, and then he says to me, 'Thor,' says he, 'it isn't very far to town from here. Just take the bay mare and run down and see how the Lieutenant is, and if he is well and can come back with you, you must bring him back along with you,' says he."</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":276}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW264334318 BCX0" paraeid="{16833b1a-dd49-4fc6-8080-56844614f10d}{171}" paraid="841808208" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="EOP SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":276}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW264334318 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW264334318 BCX0" paraeid="{16833b1a-dd49-4fc6-8080-56844614f10d}{189}" paraid="40192866" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">When we left the </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">town,</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> it was daylight. The roads were in splendid condition. The bay mare stretched out her</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-parastyle="Normal (Web)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">old smart legs, and we arrived at length in sight of the dear old house. Thor jumped off the sledge to undo the gate, and as we merrily drove up to the door, we were met by the boisterous welcome of old Rover, who, in his frantic joy at hearing my voice, almost broke his chains in trying to rush at me.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":276}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW264334318 BCX0" paraeid="{16833b1a-dd49-4fc6-8080-56844614f10d}{189}" paraid="40192866" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="EOP SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":276}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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-webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Such a Christmas as I spent that year I cannot recollect before or since.</span><span class="EOP SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":276}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW264334318 BCX0" paraeid="{16833b1a-dd49-4fc6-8080-56844614f10d}{203}" paraid="50958208" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="EOP SCXW264334318 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":276}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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Who is this mysterious figure?</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW58394650 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; line-height: 23.7417px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></i></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW264334318 BCX0" paraeid="{16833b1a-dd49-4fc6-8080-56844614f10d}{203}" paraid="50958208" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span class="EOP SCXW58394650 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 23.7417px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></i></p></div></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW58394650 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: left; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW58394650 BCX0" paraeid="{c9aa06b6-43c9-47ed-a440-b8f731299f37}{232}" paraid="890763036" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW58394650 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 23.7417px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW58394650 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Not gnome, not troll, no</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW58394650 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">r</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW58394650 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> elf or brownie; this little old man is a Scandinavian house spirit</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW58394650 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. A</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW58394650 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">nd I ask you </span><span class="NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW58394650 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-image: var(--urlContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2, url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,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")); background-position: 0% 100%; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">kindly</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW58394650 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> to be respectful to him</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW58394650 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW58394650 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">As </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW58394650 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">you’ll</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW58394650 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; 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background-position: 0% 100%; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">nisse</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW58394650 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> in Norway</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW58394650 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW58394650 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">For the sake of my </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW58394650 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">long-ago</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW58394650 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; 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Chr. Asbjornsen. "Round the Yule-Log ." In </span><span color="windowtext" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Christmas in Norway. Boston, MA: Colonial Press, 1895. (Found at Project Gutenberg: </i></span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/files/31993/31993-h/31993-h.htm">https://www.gutenberg.org/files/31993/31993-h/31993-h.htm</a>)</i></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW58394650 BCX0" paraeid="{03fa757c-cc74-40e2-8154-637f37ea3fc5}{208}" paraid="1263271479" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW58394650 BCX0" paraeid="{03fa757c-cc74-40e2-8154-637f37ea3fc5}{208}" paraid="1263271479" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW58394650 BCX0" paraeid="{03fa757c-cc74-40e2-8154-637f37ea3fc5}{208}" paraid="1263271479" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="EOP SCXW58394650 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 23.7417px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></p></div><p style="height: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">x</span></p>wisecronecottagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06905728573029477284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-455236209379584574.post-4516954028295622532022-12-31T22:36:00.001-07:002022-12-31T22:39:25.289-07:00The Cailleach - Celtic Goddess of Winter<p></p><p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp0XR94N8UXnAAL-h8QU61G4sS4lk9Yocep1ujM3N_ptBSbxcw2Vudlb4mEOA-AAx7Oa_EW95lIobt5yLPAWJj7IuHN--FFqXg7gnOiZLSsPCFy9sBSI9glXi4iNUMxmpmSDP_CaSiy92LUjHSW0zkQ8PnbVqZKz9ilYDNSiaqVzzWcsQig0UrUIN1pw/s1280/hag%20cookie.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="1264" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp0XR94N8UXnAAL-h8QU61G4sS4lk9Yocep1ujM3N_ptBSbxcw2Vudlb4mEOA-AAx7Oa_EW95lIobt5yLPAWJj7IuHN--FFqXg7gnOiZLSsPCFy9sBSI9glXi4iNUMxmpmSDP_CaSiy92LUjHSW0zkQ8PnbVqZKz9ilYDNSiaqVzzWcsQig0UrUIN1pw/s320/hag%20cookie.jpg" width="316" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> <i>"Hag cookie" imprinted with image by Meinrad Craighead<br /></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I
have memories of past winters. Looking out over a lake just as the sun had
set.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bare branch trees and loneliness
embrace that liminal time when the veil is thin. The earth cries out for sleep
and rest, but the world pays no attention.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Life continues without change. The holidays are stirring things up rather
than slowing them down. Few have time to look out the window at all. But our
agrarian ancestors had a more balanced life. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They worked hard from spring until autumn
harvest, then life slowed in winter. In the Celtic world, the new year begins
at Samhain (which is October 31<sup>st</sup>). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Winter hasn’t yet begun but the world is
slowing down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Animals and plant prepare
for hibernation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For humans, this
provided time for dreams and rest. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Families
were together eating by candlelight food preserved at an earlier time. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Long nights people huddled by firelight. Elders
told stories and plans were made. In that time and place, folks had plenty of
time for review.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What is no longer
needed?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Who no longer serves you?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What needs to be done in the coming year?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">In
the storm’s fury, with gale winds howling, the winter goddess of Ireland and
Scotland reigns supreme. She is the Cailleach, the crone, the hag, an old woman
with a blue-gray face. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her name means “old
wife” or veiled one.” Her work is veiled and mysterious. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She has keen eyesight and inordinate strength.
It is she who formed the coastline and mountains with the rocks that she hurled
from her apron. Yet there is no evidence that she harms humans, only that she determines
their worth.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The
Cailleach is an essential part of the cycle of life. She comes in the
barrenness of winter when what remains from the harvest decays in the ground. She
protects the seedlings with the warmth of her snow. Without the Cailleach, the life
that hibernates would not be nurtured or protected through the long winter
night. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The
Cailleach calls to us. She leads us indoors to reflect on what was and on what will
be.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She clears away all that is finished
for nothing unworthy escapes her challenge. Her cave is a refuge from the
harshest reality so that only the brave will enter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Its darkness is the catalyst for change. A
challenge to follow the rhythm of the seasons. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Those who enter will be rewarded with nourishment
and wisdom. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s a time for healing, integration,
and surrender; rather than for action and resistance. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Enter
her cave and sit by her fire. Let the madness and busyness of the world go by
for a while.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Discover what has import in
this moment of life and what has meaning. Stop filling time with what is meaningless,
busyness, the shoulds and oughts. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Finding balance occurs only when we take the
time to nourish ourselves and seek restoration.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She reassures us that the death of winter will be followed by the
rebirth of spring.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Gearóid
Ó Crualaoich in “The Book of The Cailleach” identifies her two images as found
in folklore and myth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The first is the figure
of a female sovereignty goddess. She is the one who is personified with land
and grants sovereignty upon the chosen king by kissing, marrying, or having sex
with him. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once done, she is unveiled as
a beautiful young woman, and he becomes the rightful king. (One of these
stories, “</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The Adventures
of the Sons of Eochaid Mugmedon</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">,” is the
focus of this month’s podcast.) The second image found in these stories is of an
old woman with magical or otherworldly connections. Those stories will be saved
for a later date.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Older
Celtic stories depict the Cailleach growing younger as the winter progresses. By
the time of Imbolc (February 2<sup>nd</sup>) she transforms into the youthful
goddess Bride (who later became St. Bridget in the Christian world). Marie
Ede-Weaving writes, “On the eve of Bride, the Cailleach journeys to the Magical
Isle in whose woods lies the miraculous well of youth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the first glimmer of dawn. She drinks the
water that bubbles in a crevice of a rock and is transformed into Bride, the
fair maid whose white wand turns the bare earth again.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s a story of birth, death and rebirth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Cailleach is a crone whose strength takes
her to death and back unafraid. She creates the world, travels though storms
and does it again and again.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">In
honor of my 70<sup>th</sup> birthday this year, I had a “croning” ceremony.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was held on Samhain, the time of the
Cailleach. The word crone derives from the Latin word for crown.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She who is crowned or croned is the wise old
woman.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Croning, however, is not a mark
of achievement.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is instead an
aspiration and an acknowledgment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is
not bestowed upon a woman.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The title is
instead claimed by a woman.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is granted
when she seeks it. Crowning the crone is a rite of passage in which a woman
sets her intention to live her life fully as her authentic self. She moves from
the invisibility of the old woman to a guiding, protecting, and serving
presence for future generations. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The
Crone is wise and generative in nature.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In folktales and mythology, she is the one who determines the worth of
the young.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is depicted in the Cailleach
story of the sovereignty goddess.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Only
the young man who can see beyond her hideous outer appearance is worthy to be king.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She helps those who can see who she truly is,
and who are kind and pure of heart. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">If
you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you know that the Cailleach is only
one expression of the Wise Crone archetype.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The Crone is not invisible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She
is not passive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometimes ferocious and
sometimes frightening, she punishes those who seek to lie, trick, or take advantage
of others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In Ireland and Scotland, she
is the Cailleach, the hag goddess who comes in the darkness of winter. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was she who was invoked during my croning ceremony,
and it was she who I honor in this poem.</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Dear Cailleach, the Crone, the Hag of
Winter,</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The veiled one,</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The goddess of the Highlands,</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Queen of Air and Darkness.</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">At this time of Samhain, this time of
winter,</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">You stand on the threshold between
death and rebirth,</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Darkness and light,</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The known and the unknown.</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">You, who created the world from dirt
and stones,</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Builder of mountains and sacred
chairs.</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Show us the way through our fears, our
grief, our sadness.</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">May we pass the test to face our
shadow,</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">To look into your face and kiss your
visage.</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Teach us the ways of darkness, of
silence, isolation,</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">and letting go.</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Show us how to die to the Self that no
longer serves us,</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">and is no longer useful,</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Accept and surrender to what is.</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Open the mysteries, dear One, of the
Otherworld.</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Show us how to walk with the wolf and
fly with the owl.</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Help us to revel in the moonlight.</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Cover us with your cloak, keep us
safe,</span></p>
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Wise Crone</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">and the sure return of the goddess of
Spring.</span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> K. Shimpock 2022 <br /></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p>
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</p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="line-height: 107%;"> </span></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><i><span style="line-height: 107%;">You’ve
got to love a story with both a crone and a hag!<span> </span>Plus, this is the story of the Irish hero, Finn
Mac Cumhail.<span> </span>It’s a story in which Finn’s
skills are found to be no match to two old women. For the story itself, see the
September 2022 post, “The Birth of Finn Mac Cumhail.”</span></i></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="line-height: 107%;">Finn’s life
was part of a prophecy.<span> </span>It was said that
the birth of a son to the King’s daughter would cause him to lose his
kingdom.<span> </span>Hence, once Finn was born, his
life was in danger. Finn's very grandfather, the King, sought to kill him. Fortunately, his paternal grandmother was tasked to hide and protect him.<span> </span>First, she rescues him from the lake and then
she creates the ultimate hiding place…a tree! (Seems a bit like Merlin if you
ask me.)<span> </span>She tasks a woodman to hollow
out a large tree. Inside there was a room big enough for her, Finn, and their
dog. When the woodman finished, she chopped off his head to keep their secret.</span></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="line-height: 107%;">“You’ll
never tell any man about this place now,” she says.</span></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="line-height: 107%;">For five
years they lived in the tree.<span> </span>When they finally
came outside, she had to teach the boy to walk. Her incentive was to use a
switch of stinging nettle. (For those of you who have never experienced
stinging nettle, just know one touch feels like you have been pricked by many
needles.<span> </span>It continues to cause numbness
for some time thereafter.) Granny told Finn to run down the hill and if she
could catch him, she’d strike him with the switch.<span> </span>Coming up the hill, she’d run first.<span> </span>If he could catch her, he could strike her
too. <span> </span>It wasn’t long before he was
striking her every step.<span> </span>Personally, I
think she let him catch her.<span> </span>You’ll see
why, later in the story.</span></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="line-height: 107%;">At age
fifteen, Finn goes to a hurly match and takes sides against his
grandfather King.<span> </span>With his help the
neighboring king wins.<span> </span>His grandfather
is outraged and wants to know who that fair skinned, pale haired youth was. </span></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span> </span>“Who is that white cap (or Finn Cumhail),” he
said, wishing to seize and kill him.<span> </span>And
at that, Finn was named by a grandfather who thought he had died long ago.</span></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="line-height: 107%;">Finn needs
another escape, and his grandmother comes to the rescue.<span> </span>They run away together. When Finn grows
tired, she carries him on her back putting his feet in her apron pockets.<span> </span>They run and run until a black horse approaches.
The old woman knows this horse will catch them, so she jumps into the bog. She
tells Finn to run away and sacrifices her life for his.<span> </span>Finn escapes and his grandmother’s head is cut
off. It’s taken to the king and told it was Finn.</span></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="line-height: 107%;">Later in the
story another old woman appears.<span> </span>This
one is an old hag who lives with her three sons.<span> </span>Every evening she sends her sons to burn the
king’s dun, a type of hillfort.<span> </span>We don’t
know why she’s doing this, but it has been going on for some time and no one
has been able to stop it. The king offers his daughter’s hand in marriage to
anyone who can stop the burning.<span> </span>If they
fail, well, “off with their head.” (There is way too much head chopping in this
story!)<span> </span>Finn agrees to give it a
try.<span> </span>The hag sends first one son and
then another to burn the dun. Finn fights with each of them in turn.<span> </span>When the eldest, “Cat-head,” arrives Finn chops
off his head. But his head just won’t die!<span>
</span>It attacks Finn’s breast and can only be removed by some magic potion of
the hag.</span></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="line-height: 107%;">Finally, the
hag arrives and immediately we can tell she has way more power, skills, and
strength then her sons. (I might say the same about Finn’s grandmother.)<span> </span>The two were locked in a terrible battle. It
was described as “greater than the world had ever known before that night or seen
since.”<span> </span>Ultimately Finn won, he’s an
Irish hero after all.<span> </span>He uses her blood
to save his own life.</span></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></span><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>But let’s be clear here.<span>
</span>How or why, he won just doesn’t make sense.<span> </span>It wasn’t long before, that his grandmother
was carrying him on her back.<span> </span>This part
of the story is similar to the Welsh tale, “<a href="https://www.wisecronecottage.com/2019/11/the-very-black-witch-from-how-culhwch_28.html"><span color="windowtext" style="text-decoration: none;">The
Very Black Witch” from “How Culhwch Won Olwen.”</span></a> (A full discussion of this story can be seen in the blog
posting of November 28, 2019.)<span> </span>In this
story, King Arthur goes on a quest for the Witch Orddu. Instead of an easy battle she defeats and injures
many of his men.<span> </span>Arthur does ultimately kill her, but not by engaging her.<span> </span>He
throws his knife from the entrance, cleaves her head in two, and gathers her
blood. It is an unlikely win as was Finn’s. Hags are not to be crossed and
certainly not to be messed with.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="line-height: 107%;">This is the
tale of two old women.<span> </span>Not two old decrepit,
shaking voices, cane carrying grannies, but two powerful, magical old
women.<span> </span>Both are surrounded by family.
The hag comes to chastise her sons for their delay in setting the fire.<span> </span>When she sees what has occurred, she doesn’t
appear to grieve their loss.<span> </span>Her despair
is that her will was thwarted.<span> </span>She was
using her children for her own end.<span> </span>As
the hag, she is ugly both inside and out. She was ultimately defeated but not without a perilous fight.</span></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="line-height: 107%;">Finn’s
grandmother was the wise crone.<span> </span>She was
protective, wise, magical, and strong.<span>
</span>She was a seer with skill to know the future. Everything she did was to
protect her grandson.<span> </span>She’s not the
helpless grandmother we see in many folktales. She is a force to be reckoned
with.<span> </span>When the time came, she knew that
by sacrificing her own head, Finn would be safe.<span> </span>He would be free to ask for the release of the
men in the king’s dungeon. He would be able then to start his own band of warriors, the Fenian. Together they would go on many adventures<br /></span></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="line-height: 107%;">So, you
might well say, the moral of the story is “don’t underestimate the wise crone.”
But, I’d say, it’s more than that.<span> </span>Don’t
dismiss someone because you think they are an unlikely opponent. Don’t refuse
the help of your elders, and never, ever underestimate the power of love.</span></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 2; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 2;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span>Finn MacCool (or Mac Cumhaill) is the pale
haired, poet-warrior of Irish mythology.<span>
</span>His life fills the Fenian Cycle, a collection of stories first reference
in the 7<sup>th</sup> century poetry. But MacCool’s stories are more important
than mere mythology; and they grew and spread from myth to legend to folktale.</span></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 2;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span>In this story, we focus on the beginning, Finn’s
birth, of which there are several versions.<span>
</span>In one telling, he is raised by one or two nurses.<span> </span>But my favorite, by far, is the story in
which he is raised by his grandmother, a very wise crone.</span></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Cumhal Macart was
a great champion in the west of Erin, and it was prophesied of him that if ever
he married, he would meet death in the next battle he fought.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>For this reason,
he had no wife, and knew no woman for a long time; till one day he saw the
king's daughter, who was so beautiful that he forgot all fear and married her
in secret.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Next day after
the marriage, news came that a battle had to be fought.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Now a Druid had
told the king that his daughter's son would take the kingdom from him; so, he
made up his mind to look after the daughter, and not let any man come near her.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Before he went to
the battle, Cumhal told his mother everything - told her of his relations with
the king's daughter.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>He said, "I
shall be killed in battle to-day, according to the prophecy of the Druid, and
I'm afraid if his daughter has a son, the king will kill the child, for the
prophecy is that he will lose the kingdom by the son of his own daughter. Now,
if the king's daughter has a son will you hide and rear him, if you can?<span> </span>You will be his only hope and stay."</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Cumhal was killed
in the battle, and within that year the king's daughter had a son. By command
of his grandfather, the boy was thrown out of the castle window into a loch, to
be drowned, on the day of his birth.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>The boy sank from
sight; but after remaining a while under the water, he rose again to the
surface, and came to land holding a live salmon in his hand.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>The grandmother
of the boy, Cumhal's mother, stood watching on the shore, and said to herself
as she saw this: "He is my grandson, the true son of my own child,"
and seizing the boy, she rushed away with him, and vanished, before the king's
people could stop her.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>When the king
heard that the old woman had escaped with his daughter's son, he fell into a
terrible rage, and ordered all the male children born that day in the kingdom
to be put to death, hoping in this way to kill his own grandson, and save the
crown for himself.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>After she had
disappeared from the bank of the loch, the old woman, Cumhal's mother, made her
way to a thick forest, where she spent that night as best she could. Next day
she came to a great oak tree. Then she hired a man to cut out a chamber in the
tree.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>When all was
finished, and there was a nice room in the oak for herself and her grandson,
and a whelp (a puppy) of the same age as the boy, and which she had brought
with her from the castle, she said to the man: "Give me the axe which you
have in your hand, there is something here that I want to fix."</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>The man gave the
axe into her hand, and that minute she swept the head off him, saying:
"You'll never tell any man about this place now." One day the whelp
ate some of the fine chippings (<i>bran</i>) left cut by the carpenter from the
inside of the tree. The old woman said: "You'll be called Bran from this
out."</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>All three lived
in the tree together, and the old woman did not take her grandson out till the
end of five years; and then he couldn't walk, he had been sitting so long
inside.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>When the old
grandmother had taught the boy to walk, she brought him one day to the brow of
a hill from which there was a long slope. She took a switch and said:
"Now, run down this place. I will follow and strike you with this switch
(of nettles), and coming up I will run ahead, and you strike me as often as you
can."</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>The first time
they ran down, his grandmother struck him many times. In coming up the first
time, he did not strike her at all. Every time they ran down she struck him
less, and every time they ran up he struck her more.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>They ran up and
down for three days; and at the end of that time she could not strike him once,
and he struck her at every step she took. He had now become a great runner.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>When he was
fifteen years of age, the old woman went with him to a hurling match between
the forces of his grandfather and those of a neighboring king. Both sides were
equal in skill; and neither was able to win, till the youth opposed his
grandfather's people. Then, he won every game. When the ball was thrown in the
air, he struck it coming down, and so again and again,—never letting the ball
touch the ground till he had driven it through the barrier.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>The old king, who
was very angry, and greatly mortified, at the defeat of his people, exclaimed,
as he saw the youth, who was very fair and had white hair: "Who is that <i>fin
cumhal</i><a name="FNanchor_11_11"></a> [white cap]?"</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>"Ah, that is
it; Finn will be his name, and Finn MacCumhail he is," said the old woman.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>The king ordered
his people to seize and put the young man to death, on the spot. The old woman
hurried to the side of her grandson. They slipped from the crowd and away they
went, a hill at a leap, a glen at a step, and thirty-two miles at a
running-leap. They ran a long distance, till Finn grew tired; then the old
grandmother took him on her back, putting his feet into two pockets which were
in her dress, one on each side, and ran on with the same swiftness as before, a
hill at a leap, a glen at a step, and thirty-two miles at a running-leap.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>After a time, the
old woman felt the approach of pursuit, and said to Finn: "Look behind, and
tell me what you see."</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>"I
see," said he, "a white horse with a champion on his back."</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>"Oh, no
fear," said she; "a white horse has no endurance; he can never catch
us, we are safe from him." And on they sped. A second time she felt the
approach of pursuit, and again she said: "Look back, and see who is
coming."</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Finn looked back,
and said: "I see a warrior riding on a brown horse."</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>"Never
fear," said the old woman; "there is never a brown horse but is
giddy, he cannot overtake us." She rushed on as before. A third time she
said: "Look around and see who is coming now." Finn looked, and said:
"I see a black warrior on a black horse, following fast."</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>"There is no
horse so tough as a black horse," said the grandmother. "There is no
escape from this one. My grandson, one or both of us must die. I am old, my
time has nearly come. I will die, and you and Bran save yourselves. (Bran had
been with them all the time.) Right here ahead is a deep bog; you jump off my back
and escape as best you can. I'll jump into the bog up to my neck; and when the
king's men come, I'll say that you are in the bog before me, sunk out of sight,
and I'm trying to find you. As my hair and yours are the same color, they will
think my head good enough to carry back. They will cut it off, and take it in
place of yours, and show it to the king; that will satisfy his anger."</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Finn slipped down,
took farewell of his grandmother, and hurried on with Bran. The old woman came
to the bog, jumped in, and sank to her neck. The king's men were soon at the
edge of the bog, and the black rider called out to the old woman: "Where
is Finn?"</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>"He is here
in the bog before me, and I'm trying can I find him."</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>As the horsemen
could not find Finn and thought the old woman's head would do to carry back,
they cut it off, and took it with them, saying: "This will satisfy the
king."</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Finn and Bran went
on till they came to a great cave, in which they found a herd of goats. At the
further end of the cave was a smoldering fire. The two lay down to rest.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>A couple of hours
later, in came a giant with a salmon in his hand. This giant was of awful
height, he had but one eye, and that in the middle of his forehead, as large as
the sun in heaven.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>When he saw Finn,
he called out: "Here, take this salmon and roast it; but be careful, for
if you raise a single blister on it, I'll cut the head off you. I've followed
this salmon for three days and three nights without stopping, and I never let
it out of my sight, for it is the most wonderful salmon in the world."</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>The giant lay
down to sleep in the middle of the cave. Finn spitted the salmon and held it
over the fire.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>The minute the
giant closed the one eye in his head, he began to snore. Every time he drew
breath into his body, he dragged Finn, the spit, the salmon, Bran, and all the
goats to his mouth; and every time he drove a breath out of himself, he threw
them back to the places they were in before. Finn was drawn time after time to
the mouth of the giant with such force, that he was in dread of going down his
throat.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>When partly
cooked, a blister rose on the salmon. Finn pressed the place with his thumb, to
know could he break the blister, and hide from the giant the harm that was
done. But he burned his thumb, and, to ease the pain, put it between his teeth,
and gnawed the skin to the flesh, the flesh to the bone, the bone to the
marrow; and when he had tasted the marrow, he received the knowledge of all
things. Next moment, he was drawn by the breath of the giant right up to his
face, and, knowing from his thumb what to do, he plunged the hot spit into the
sleeping eye of the giant and destroyed it.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>That instant the
giant with a single bound was at the low entrance of the cave, and, standing
with his back to the wall and a foot on each side of the opening, roared out:
"You'll not leave this place alive."</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Now Finn killed
the largest goat, skinned him as quickly as he could, then putting the skin on
himself he drove the herd to where the giant stood; the goats passed out one by
one between his legs. When the great goat came the giant took him by the horns.
Finn slipped from the skin and ran out.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>"Oh, you've
escaped," said the giant, "but before we part let me make you a
present."</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>"I'm afraid
to go near you," said Finn; "if you wish to give me a present, put it
out this way, and then go back."</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>The giant placed
a ring on the ground, then went back. Finn took up the ring and put it on the
end of his little finger above the first joint. It clung so firmly that no man
in the world could have taken it off.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>The giant then
called out, "Where are you?"</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>"On Finn's
finger," cried the ring. That instant the giant sprang at Finn and almost
came down on his head, thinking in this way to crush him to bits. Finn sprang to
a distance. Again, the giant asked, "Where are you?"</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>"On Finn's
finger," answered the ring.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Again, the giant
made a leap, coming down just in front of Finn. Many times, he called, and many
times almost caught Finn, who could not escape with the ring on his finger.
While in this terrible struggle, not knowing how to escape, Bran ran up and
asked:</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>"Why don't
you chew your thumb?" Finn bit his thumb to the marrow, and then knew what
to do. He took the knife with which he had skinned the goat, cut off his finger
at the first joint, and threw it, with the ring still on, into a deep bog nearby.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Again, the giant
called out, "Where are you?" and the ring answered, "On Finn's
finger."</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Straightway the
giant sprang towards the voice, sank to his shoulders in the bog, and stayed
there.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Finn with Bran now
went on his way and travelled till he reached a deep and thick wood, where a
thousand horses were drawing timber, and men felling and preparing it.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>"What is
this?" asked Finn of the overseer of the workmen.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>"Oh, we are
building a dun (a castle) for the king; we build one every day, and every night
it is burned to the ground. Our king has an only daughter; he will give her to
any man who will save the dun, and he'll leave him the kingdom at his death. If
any man undertakes to save the dun and fails, his life must pay for it; the
king will cut his head off. The best champions in Erin have tried and failed;
they are now in the king's dungeons, a whole army of them, waiting the king's
pleasure. He's going to cut the heads off them all in one day."</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>"Why don't
you chew your thumb?" asked Bran.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Finn chewed his
thumb to the marrow, and then knew that on the eastern side of the world there
lived an old hag with her three sons, and every evening at nightfall she sent
the youngest of these to burn the king's dun.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>"I will save
the king's dun," said Finn.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>"Well,"
said the overseer, "better men than you have tried and lost their
lives." "Oh," said Finn, "I'm not afraid; I'll try for the
sake of the king's daughter."</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Now Finn, followed
by Bran, went with the overseer to the king. "I hear you will give your
daughter to the man who saves your dun," said Finn.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>"I
will," said the king; "but if he fails, I must have his head."</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>"Well,"
said Finn, "I'll risk my head for the sake of your daughter. If I fail, I'm
satisfied." The king gave Finn food and drink; he supped, and after supper
went to the dun.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>"Why don't
you chew your thumb?" said Bran; "then you'll know what to do."
He did. Then Bran took her place on the roof, waiting for the old woman's son.
Now the old woman in the east told her youngest son to hurry on with his
torches, burn the dun, and come back without delay; for the stirabout was
boiling and he must not be too late for supper.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>He took the torches
and shot off through the air with a wonderful speed. Soon he was in sight of
the king's dun, threw the torches upon the thatched roof to set it on fire as
usual.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>That moment Bran
gave the torches such a push with her shoulders, that they fell into the stream
which ran around the dun and were put out. "Who is this," cried the
youngest son of the old hag, "who has dared to put out my lights, and
interfere with my hereditary right?"</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>"I,"
said Finn, who stood in front of him. Then began a terrible battle between Finn
and the old woman's son. Bran came down from the dun to help Finn; she bit and
tore his enemy's back, stripping the skin and flesh from his head to his heels.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>After a terrible
struggle such as had not been in the world before that night, Finn cut the head
off his enemy. But for Bran, Finn could never have conquered.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>The time for the
return of her son had passed; supper was ready. The old woman, impatient and
angry, said to the second son: "You take torches and hurry on, see why
your brother loiters. I'll pay him for this when he comes home! But be careful
and don't do like him, or you'll have your pay too. Hurry back, for the
stirabout is boiling and ready for supper."</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>He started off,
was met and killed exactly as his brother, except that he was stronger and the
battle fiercer. But for Bran, Finn would have lost his life that night.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>The old woman was
raging at the delay, and said to her eldest son, who had not been out of the
house for years: (It was only in case of the greatest need that she sent him.
He had a cat's head, and was called Pus an Chuine, "Puss of the
Corner;" he was the eldest and strongest of all the brothers.) "Now
take torches, go and see what delays your brothers; I'll pay them for this when
they come home."</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>The eldest
brother shot off through the air, came to the king's dun, and threw his torches
upon the roof. They had just singed the straw a little, when Bran pushed them
off with such force that they fell into the stream and were quenched.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>"Who is
this," screamed Cat-head, "who dares to interfere with my ancestral
right?"</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>"I,"
shouted Finn. Then the struggle began fiercer than with the second brother. Bran
helped from behind, tearing the flesh from his head to his heels; but at length
Cat-head fastened his teeth into Finn's breast, biting and gnawing till Finn cut
the head off. The body fell to the ground, but the head lived, gnawing as terribly
as before. Do what they could it was impossible to kill it. Finn hacked and cut
but could neither kill nor pull it off. When nearly exhausted, Bran said:</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>"Why don't
you chew your thumb?"</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Finn chewed his
thumb, and reaching the marrow knew that the old woman in the east was ready to
start with torches to find her sons, and burn the dun herself, and that she had
a vial of liquid with which she could bring the sons to life; and that nothing
could free him from Cat-head but the old woman's blood.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>After midnight
the old hag, enraged at the delay of her sons, started and shot through the air
like lightning, more swiftly than her sons. She threw her torches from afar
upon the roof of the dun; but Bran as before hurled them into the stream.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Now the old woman
circled around in the air looking for her sons. Finn was getting very weak from
pain and loss of blood, for Cat-head was biting at his breast all the time.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Bran called out:
"Rouse yourself, oh, Finn; use all your power or we are lost! If the old
hag gets a drop from the vial upon the bodies of her sons, they will come to
life, and then we're done for."</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Thus roused, Finn
with one spring reached the old woman in the air, and swept the bottle from her
grasp, which falling upon the ground was emptied.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>The old hag gave
a scream which was heard all over the world, came to the ground and closed with
Finn. Then followed a battle greater than the world had ever known before that night
or has ever seen since. Water sprang out of gray rocks, cows cast their calves
even when they had none, and hard rushes grew soft in the remotest corner of
Erin, so desperate was the fighting and so awful, between Finn and the old hag.
Finn would have died that night but for Bran.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Just as daylight
was coming Finn swept the head off the old woman, caught some of her blood, and
rubbed it around Cat-head, who fell off dead.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>He rubbed his own
wounds with the blood and was cured; then rubbed some on Bran, who had been
singed with the torches, and she was as well as ever. Finn, exhausted with
fighting, dropped down and fell asleep.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>While he was
sleeping the chief steward of the king came to the dun, found it standing safe
and sound, and seeing Finn lying there asleep knew that he had saved it. Bran
tried to waken Finn, pulled and tugged, but could not rouse him.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>The steward went
to the king, and said: "I have saved the dun, and I claim the
reward."</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>"It shall be
given you," answered the king; and straightway the steward was recognized
as the king's son-in-law, and orders were given to make ready for the wedding.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Bran had listened
to what was going on, and when her master woke, exactly at midday, she told him
of all that was taking place in the castle of the king.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Finn went to the
king, and said: "I have saved your dun, and I claim the reward."</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>"Oh,"
said the king, "my steward claimed the reward, and it has been given to
him."</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>"He had
nothing to do with saving the dun; I saved it," said Finn.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>"Well,"
answered the king, "he is the first man who told me of its safety and
claimed the reward." "Bring him here: let me look at him," said
Finn.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>He was sent for
and came. "Did you save the king's dun?" asked Finn. "I
did," said the steward.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>"You did
not, and take that for your lies," said Finn; and striking him with the
edge of his open hand he swept the head off his body, dashing it against the
other side of the room, flattening it like paste on the wall.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>"You are the
man," said the king to Finn, "who saved the dun; yours is the reward.
All the champions, and there is many a man of them, who have failed to save it
are in the dungeons of my fortress; their heads must be cut off before the
wedding takes place."</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>"Will you
let me see them?" asked Finn.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>"I
will," said the king.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Finn went down to
the men and found the first champions of Erin in the dungeons. "Will you
obey me in all things if I save you from death?" said Finn. "We
will," said they. Then he went back to the king and asked:</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>"Will you
give me the lives of these champions of Erin, in place of your daughter's hand?"</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>"I
will," said the king.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>All the champions
were liberated and left the king's castle that day. Ever after they followed
the orders of Finn, and these were the beginning of his forces and the first of
the Fenians of Erin. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span>You’ve
got to love a story with both a crone and a hag!<span> </span>Next month, we’ll discover what we can learn
from each.</span></i></span></p>
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</span></span></div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Jeremiah Curtin, “The Birth of Finn
MacCumhail” in <i>Myths and Folk-Lore of Ireland </i>(Boston, MA: Little Brown,
1906), pp.204-220. <span> </span>(At “Project
Gutenberg,” https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/36540).</span></span></p>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I’m a <i>Star Wars’ </i>fan, especially the first and last
trilogy.<span> </span>In fact, one of my favorite
film moments comes in the <i>Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker. </i><span> </span>It’s only about 3 minutes of film footage, at
the very end of the film.<span> </span>But it brought
tears to this crone storyteller's eyes, and it stays in my mind and heart
during the dark days we live in.<span>
</span>Why?<span> </span>I’ll get to that moment,
but before I do, I think it’s best to start a bit earlier.<span> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Finn and Rose, two Resistance members, are sent on a mission
to find and disable the First Order’s tracking device. This is a new system
that can track Resistance ships in hyperspace. (If all this already seems too much
to follow, please watch the films or check out a written summary.) This quest
takes them to a casino town called Canto Bight searching for the hacker DJ.<span> </span>Canto Bight is a tourist planet with a casino.
<span> </span>(This part of the film brings back
memories of when Luke and Obi-Wan go into the bar.) This casino is also filled
with beings from all over the galaxy engaging in all manner of gambling. Soon
everything goes amiss and the three find themselves chased by local security. In
a surprising turn of events, they receive help from some orphaned children who
work as stable hands at the racetrack.<span> </span>Rose
convinces the child, Temiri Blagg, to help them escape in return for her
Resistance ring. Blagg and some other orphans then release a herd of fathers (a
four footed, ridable animal), which stampedes through the streets of Canto
Bight. As the animals are released, Finn, Rose, and DJ escape. The film
progresses with many losses for the Resistance. Luke Skywalker appears to
confront the First Order and his nephew Kylo Ren. Luke gives the Resistance time
to escape and then dies or becomes one with the Force (depending upon how you
see it).<span> </span>So that should be the end of
the movie, but the director decided to add another brief scene.<span> T</span>o me, it is the most important scene of all.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It’s an image of the slave children still working in the
stables of Canto Bight. (Some say their slavery was the price paid for their
parents’ gambling debts.) They are sitting in a circle and there is a doll that
appears to be Luke Skywalker.<span> </span>One
of the children is telling the story of Luke Skywalker, the Jedi Master. The
other children look at him in awe.<span> </span>This
is the story of Luke’s final battle, a hero’s journey certainly and one in
which he prevailed against all odds. It is a tale that inspires them.<span> </span>Then their master returns and puts them back
to work. We next see Temiri Blagg going outside. A broom seems to fly gently toward
his hand. <span> </span>He sweeps slowly and then
gazes off into space. <span> </span>On his finger, is
the Resistance ring. We know he’s
dreaming of a better day.<span> </span>He’s remembering
how Luke won the battle and thinking of how perhaps he can too.<span> </span>As the viewer, we now know that Luke’s legacy
will continue. The Force will prevail as long as the story is shared.<span> </span>As long as the story lives, the Force will be
awakened in others. <span> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The scene almost didn’t make it into the film.<span> </span>But I’m so glad it did.<span> </span>"To me, it was really important to have
that final scene, because it turns what Luke did from an act that saves 20
people into an act that inspires the galaxy," director Ryan Johnson explained.
"The notion that what we're setting up here is something big in the next
chapter. And when Leia says, 'we have everything we need,' she's talking about
everyone on the Falcon, but also about what we see next, which is we now have a
galaxy that has seen this beacon of hope and is getting inspired to fight the
good fight." That galaxy comes together in the final film of the trilogy.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">There is another tale that’s similar, of a young boy sent
off to tell a story.<span> </span>It comes from the book
<i>The Once and Future King</i> by T.H. White.<span>
</span>It’s a literary story based on the folklore surrounding King Arthur. I
give you the last few pages of the book.<span>
</span>It’s retold beautifully in the film “Camelot” with Richard Harris
playing the role of King Arthur (should you wish to watch it). The scene
begins before the final battle when Arthur will die (or sleep, depending upon legend).</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">T.H.
White writes- <span> </span>Arthur proved that he was
not quite done, by lifting his head. There was something invincible in his
heart, a tincture of grandness in simplicity. He sat upright and reached for
the iron bell. </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"Page,"
he said, as the small boy trotted in, knuckling his eyes. </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"My
lord." </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The
King looked at him. Even in his own extremity he was able to notice others,
especially if they were fresh or decent… </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"My
poor child," he said. "You ought to be in bed." </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">He
observed the boy with a strained, thread-bare attention. It was long since he
had seen youth's innocence and certainty. </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"Look,"
he said, "will you take this note to the bishop? Don't wake him if he is
asleep." </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"My
lord." </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"Thank
you." </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">As
the live creature went, he called it back. </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"Oh,
page?" </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"My
lord?" </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"What
is your name?" </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"Tom,
my lord," it said politely. </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"Where
do you live?" </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"Near
Warwick, my lord." </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"Near
Warwick." </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The
old man seemed to be trying to imagine the place, as if it were Paradise
Terrestre, or a country described by Mandeville. </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"At
a place called Newbold Revell. It is a pretty one." </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"How
old are you?" </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"I
shall be thirteen in November, my lord." </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"And
I have kept you up all night." </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"No,
my lord. I slept a lot on one of the saddles." </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"Tom
of Newbold Revell," he said with wonder. "We seem to have involved a
lot of people. Tell me, Tom, what do you intend to do tomorrow?" </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"I
shall fight, sir. I have a good bow." </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"And
you will kill people with this bow?" </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"Yes,
my lord. A great many, I hope." </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"Suppose
they were to kill you?" </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"Then
I should be dead, my lord." </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"I
see." </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"Shall
I take the letter now?" </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"No.
Wait a minute. I want to talk to somebody, only my head is muddled." </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"Shall
I fetch a glass of wine?" </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"No,
Tom. Sit down and try to listen. Lift those chessmen off the stool. Can you
understand things when they are said?" </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"Yes,
my lord. I am good at understanding." </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"Could
you understand if I asked you not to fight tomorrow?" </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"I
should want to fight," it said stoutly. </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"Everybody
wants to fight, Tom, but nobody knows why. Suppose I were to ask you not to
fight, as a special favour to the King? Would you do that?" </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"I
should do what I was told." </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"Listen,
then. Sit for a minute and I will tell you a story. I am a very old man, Tom,
and you are young. When you are old, you will be able to tell what I have told
tonight, and I want you to do that. Do you understand this want?" </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"Yes,
sir. I think so." </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"Put
it like this. There was a king once, called King Arthur. That is me. When he
came to the throne of England, he found that all the kings and barons were
fighting against each other like madmen, and, as they could afford to fight in
expensive suits of armour, there was practically nothing which could stop them
from doing what they pleased. They did a lot of bad things, because they lived
by force. Now this king had an idea, and the idea was that force ought to be
used, if it were used at all, on behalf of justice, not on its own account.
Follow this, young boy. He thought that if he could get his barons fighting for
truth, and to help weak people, and to redress wrongs, then their fighting
might not be such a bad thing as once it used to be. So he gathered together
all the true and kindly people that he knew, and he dressed them in armour, and
he made them knights, and taught them his idea, and set them down, at a Round
Table. There were a hundred and fifty of them in the happy days, and King
Arthur loved his Table with all his heart. He was prouder of it than he was of
his own dear wife, and for many years his new knights went about killing ogres,
and rescuing damsels and saving poor prisoners, and trying to set the world to
rights. That was the King's idea." </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"I
think it was a good idea, my lord." </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"It
was, and it was not. God knows." </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"What
happened to the King in the end?" asked the child, when the story seemed
to have dried up. </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"For
some reason, things went wrong. The Table split into factions, a bitter war
began, and all were killed." </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The
boy interrupted confidently. </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"No,"
he said, "not all. The King won. We shall win." </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Arthur
smiled vaguely and shook his head. He would have nothing but the truth. </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"Everybody
was killed," he repeated, "except a certain page. I know what I am
talking about." </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"My
lord?" </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"This
page was called young Tom of Newbold Revell near Warwick, and the old King sent
him off before the battle, upon pain of dire disgrace. You see, the King wanted
there to be somebody left, who would remember their famous idea. He wanted
badly that Tom should go back to Newbold Revell, where he could grow into a man
and live his life in Warwickshire peace—and he wanted him to tell everybody who
would listen about this ancient idea, which both of them had once thought good.
Do you think you could do that, Thomas, to please the King?" </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The
child said, with the pure eyes of absolute truth: "I would do anything for
King Arthur." </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"That's
a brave fellow. Now listen, man. Don't get these legendary people muddled up.
It is I who tell you about my idea. It is I who am going to command you to take
horse to Warwickshire at once, and not to fight with your bow tomorrow at all.
Do you understand all this?" </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"Yes,
King Arthur." </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"Will
you promise to be careful of yourself afterward? Will you try to remember that
you are a kind of vessel to carry on the idea, when things go wrong, and that
the whole hope depends on you alive?" </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"I
will." </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"It
seems selfish of me to use you for it." </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"It
is an honour for your poor page, good my lord." </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"Thomas,
my idea of those knights was a sort of candle, like these ones here. I have
carried it for many years with a hand to shield it from the wind. It has
flickered often. I am giving you the candle now—you won't let it out?" </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"It
will burn." </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"Good
Tom. The light-bringer. How old did you say you were?" </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"Nearly
thirteen." </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"Sixty
more years then, perhaps. Half a century." </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"I
will give it to other people, King. English people." </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"You
will say to them in Warwickshire: Eh, he wor a wonderly fine candle?" </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"Aye,
lad, that I will." </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"Then
'tis: Na, Tom, for thee must go right quickly. Thou'lt take the best son of a
mare that thee kinst find, and thou wilt ride post into Warwickshire, lad, wi'
nowt but the curlew?" </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"I
will ride post, mate, so that the candle burn." </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"Good
Tom, then, God bless 'ee. Doant thee ferget thick Bishop of Rochester, afore
thou goest." </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The
little boy kneeled down to kiss his master's hand—his surcoat, with the Malory
bearings, looking absurdly new. </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"My
lord of England," he said. </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Arthur
raised him gently, to kiss him on the shoulder. </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"Sir
Thomas of Warwick," he said—and the boy was gone. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Two different stories.<span>
</span>Two youths <span>serving as a kind of vessel to carry on an idea.<span> </span>As Arthur said, “when things go wrong, and
that the whole hope depends on you alive” can you be that kind of vessel? Both
Temiri Blagg and Thomas of Warwick fit the bill.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>Joseph Campbell outlines the story of the hero in his “hero’s
journey” cycle. <span> </span>After the hero is
initiated, faces challenges, and is transformed, he/she must return.
Ultimately, it is the hero’s responsibility to go back to the beginning and
share what was learned from the quest. Luke Skywalker was in a fight against
the First Order, a fascist, military group seeking to control the galaxy. King
Arthur was also fighting for his ideals: justice, equality, chivalry, and honor.
Camelot was a utopian society, at least for a while. But what happens if the hero is unable to return? Both Luke
Skywalker and King Arthur died in the story; and yet, it was still important
that their lives, their ideas, and their message continue.<span> </span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>This is where the storyteller comes in.<span> </span>In the dark ages of Ireland, the storyteller
was as important as the king, for the history and culture of the people were
contained within his memory. In fact, the death of the storyteller required the
same punishment as the death of the king.<span>
</span>Our ancestors understood the importance of the story. <span> </span>King Arthur’s first written reference was as a
5<sup>th</sup> century king.<span> </span>His legend
continues today, over and over again, with each new retelling.<span> </span>There are no signs of it stopping, for the
spark within that tale still holds meaning for us many centuries later. Today,
as forces try to silence some stories, as history is rewritten, and books
banned; it’s important to remember why stories were told and recorded in the
first place. </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>Ben Okri writes in the book <i>A Way of Being Free</i>, “It is
easy to forget how mysterious and mighty stories are.<span> </span>They do their work in silence,
invisibly.<span> </span>They work with all the
internal materials of the mind and self.<span>
</span>They become part of<span> </span>you while
changing you.<span> </span>Beware the stories your read
or tell: subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are
altering your world.”</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>The candle must burn long and strong. Stories that are held in our
hearts, can never be extinguished.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">White, T.H., <i>The Once and Future King. </i>New York: G. P.
Putnam's, 1939. "Star Wars, the Rise of Skywalker," J.J. Abrams,
director. San Francisco, CA: Lucas Films, 2020.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><i>For more about these stories, listen to my podcast of the same name published on September 2022).</i><br /></span></span></span></p>
<p></p>wisecronecottagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06905728573029477284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-455236209379584574.post-20724220819549991222022-07-10T17:05:00.007-07:002023-09-17T10:52:29.186-07:00“The Storyteller at Fault” – a Celtic Folktale<p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0Z0HsTbkr5euA4mSZKSCUFbfQLYHWD1Xudwqdn-WXKK8W8Yygbi5aB8zWiReFIrCBMyR6W3zMrmHG1bggxrYlfDI3iSE-s0ey8or860Cgwu3v0XrCJuEGHBh1RMdJNGie1qH9_otTn0tPmL150YD44LfdbyQK-QHwp1WxQndGhxT3qBAhXhoTsEfReg/s1920/rabbit-ge8b0986de_1920.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1057" data-original-width="1920" height="176" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0Z0HsTbkr5euA4mSZKSCUFbfQLYHWD1Xudwqdn-WXKK8W8Yygbi5aB8zWiReFIrCBMyR6W3zMrmHG1bggxrYlfDI3iSE-s0ey8or860Cgwu3v0XrCJuEGHBh1RMdJNGie1qH9_otTn0tPmL150YD44LfdbyQK-QHwp1WxQndGhxT3qBAhXhoTsEfReg/s320/rabbit-ge8b0986de_1920.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></span></p></div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span>At the time
when the Tuatha De Dannan (a supernatural race of people in Irish mythology) held
the sovereignty of Ireland, there reigned in Leinster a king who was remarkably
fond of hearing stories. Like the other princes and chieftains of the island,
he had a favorite storyteller, who held a large estate from his Majesty, on
condition of telling him a new story every night of his life, before he went to
sleep. Many indeed were the stories he knew, so that he had already reached a
good old age without failing even for a single night in his task; and such was
the skill he displayed that whatever cares of state or other annoyances might
prey upon the monarch's mind, his storyteller was sure to send him to sleep.</span></span>
</p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span>One morning
the storyteller arose early, and as his custom was, strolled out into his
garden turning over in his mind incidents which he might weave into a story for
the king at night. But this morning he found himself quite at fault; after
pacing his whole demesne, he returned to his house without being able to think
of anything new or strange. He found no difficulty in "there was once a
king who had three sons" or "one day the king of all Ireland,"
but further than that he could not get. At length he went in to breakfast, and
found his wife much perplexed at his delay.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>"Why don't
you come to breakfast, my dear?" said she.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>"I have no
mind to eat anything," replied the storyteller; "long as I have been
in the service of the king of Leinster, I never sat down to breakfast without
having a new story ready for the evening, but this morning my mind is quite
shut up, and I don't know what to do. I might as well lie down and die at once.
I'll be disgraced forever this evening, when the king calls for his storyteller."</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>Just at this
moment the lady looked out of the window.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>"Do you see
that black thing at the end of the field?" said she.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>"I do,"
replied her husband.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>They drew nigh
and saw a miserable looking old man lying on the ground with a wooden leg
placed beside him.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>"Who are
you, my good man?" asked the storyteller. “Oh, then, 'tis little matter
who I am. I'm a poor, old, lame, decrepit, miserable creature, sitting down
here to rest awhile."</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>"An' what
are you doing with that box and dice I see in your hand?"</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>"I am
waiting here to see if anyone will play a game with me," replied the
beggar man.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>"Play with
you! Why, what has a poor old man like you to play for?"</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>"I have one
hundred pieces of gold in this leathern purse," replied the old man.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span>"You may
as well play with him," said the storyteller’s wife; "and perhaps
you'll have something to tell the king in the evening."</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>A smooth stone was
placed between them, and upon it, they cast their throws. It was but a little
while and the storyteller lost every penny of his money.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>"Much good
may it do you, friend," said he. "What better hap could I look for,
fool that I am!"</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>"Will you
play again?" asked the old man.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>"Don't be
talking, man: you have all my money."</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>"Haven't you
chariot and horses and hounds?"</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><i><span>"</span></i><span>Well<i>, </i>what of them!"</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>"I'll stake
all the money I have against thine."</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>"Nonsense,
man! Do you think for all the money in Ireland, I'd run the risk of seeing my
lady tramp home on foot?"</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>"Maybe you'd
win," said the bocough<a href="#_edn1" name="_ednref1" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="line-height: 107%;">[i]</span></span></span></span></a>.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>"Maybe I
wouldn't," said the storyteller.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>"Play with
him, husband," said his wife. "I don't mind walking, if you do,
love."</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>"I never
refused you before," said the storyteller, "and I won't do so now.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>Down he sat
again, and in one throw lost houses, hounds, and chariot.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>"Will you
play again?" asked the beggar.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>"Are you
making game of me, man; what else have I to stake?"</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>"I'll stake
all my winnings against your wife,' said the old man.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>The storyteller
turned away in silence, but his wife stopped him.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>"Accept his
offer," said she. "This is the third time, and who knows what luck
you may have? You'll surely win now."</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>They played
again, and the storyteller lost. No sooner had he done so, than to his sorrow
and surprise, his wife went and sat down near the ugly old beggar.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>"Is that the
way you're leaving me?" said the storyteller.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>"Sure, I was
won," said she. "You would not cheat the poor man, would you?"</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>"Have you
any more to stake?" asked the old man.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>"You know
very well I have not," replied the storyteller.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>"I'll stake
the whole now, wife and all, against your own self," said the old man.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>Again, they
played, and again the storyteller lost.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>"Well! here
I am, and what do you want with me?"</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>"I'll soon
let you know," said the old man, and he took from his pocket a long cord
and a wand.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>"Now,"
said he to the storyteller, "what kind of animal would you rather be, a
deer, a fox, or a hare? You have your choice now, but you may not have it
later."</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>To make a long
story short, the storyteller made his choice of a hare; the old man threw the
cord round him, struck him with the wand, and lo! a long-eared, frisking hare was
skipping and jumping on the green.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>But it wasn't for
long, who but his wife called the hounds, and set them on him. The hare fled;
the dogs followed. Round the field ran a high wall, so that run as he might, he
couldn't get out, and mightily diverted were beggar and lady to see him twist
and double.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>In vain did he
take refuge with his wife, she kicked him back again to the hounds, until at
length the beggar stopped the hounds, and with a stroke of the wand, panting
and breathless, the storyteller stood before them again.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>"And how did
you like the sport?" said the beggar.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>"It might be
sport to others," replied the storyteller looking at his wife, "for
my part I could well put up with the loss of it."</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>"Would it be
asking too much," he went on to the beggar, "to know who you are at
all, or where you come from, or why you take a pleasure in plaguing a poor old
man like me?"</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>"Oh!"
replied the stranger, " I'm an odd kind of good-for-little fellow, one day
poor, another day rich, but if you wish to know more about me or my habits,
come with me and perhaps I may show you more than you would make out if you
went alone."</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>"I'm not my
own master to go or stay," said the storyteller, with a sigh.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>The stranger put
one hand into his wallet and drew out of it before their eyes a well looking
middle-aged man, to whom he spoke as follows:</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>"By all you
heard and saw since I put you into my wallet, take charge of this lady and of
the carriage and horses, and have them ready for me whenever I want them."</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>Scarcely had he
said these words when all vanished, and the storyteller found himself at the
Foxes' Ford, near the castle of Red Hugh O'Donnell. He could see all but none
could see him. O'Donnell was in his hall, and heaviness of flesh and weariness
of spirit were upon him.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>"Go
out," said he to his doorkeeper, " and see who or what may be
coming."</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span>The
doorkeeper went, and what he saw was a lank, grey beggarman; half his sword
bared behind his haunch, his two shoes full of cold road-a-wayish water sousing
about him, the tips of his two ears out through his old hat, his two shoulders
out through his scant tattered cloak, and in his hand a green wand of holly.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>"Save you, O
Donnell," said the lank grey beggarman.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>"And you
likewise," said O'Donnell. "Whence come you, and what is your
craft?"</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>"I come from
the outmost stream of earth,<br />
From the glens where the white swans glide,<br />
A night in Islay, a night in Man,<br />
A night on the cold hillside."</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>"It's the
great traveler you are," said O'Donnell. "Maybe you've learnt
something on the road."</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>"I am a
juggler," said the lank grey beggarman, "and for five pieces of
silver you shall see a trick of mine."</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>"You shall
have them," said O'Donnell; and the lank grey beggarman took three small
straws and placed them in his hand.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>"The middle
one," said he, "I'll blow away; the other two I'll leave."</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>"Thou canst
not do it," said one and all.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>But the lank grey
beggarman put a finger on either outside straw and, whiff, away he blew the
middle one.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>"’Tis a good
trick," said O'Donnell; and he paid him his five pieces of silver.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>"For half
the money," said one of the chief's lads, "I'll do the same trick.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>"Take him at
his word, O'Donnell."</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>The lad put the
three straws on his hand, and a finger on either outside straw and he blew; and
what happened but that the fist was blown away with the straw.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>"Thou art
sore, and thou wilt be sorer," said O'Donnell.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>"Six more
pieces, O'Donnell, and I'll do another trick for thee," said the lank grey
beggarman.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>"Six shalt
thou have."</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>"Seest thou
my two ears! One I'll move but not t'other."</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>"’Tis easy
to see them, they're big enough, but thou canst never move one ear and not the
two together."</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>The lank grey
beggarman put his hand to his ear, and he gave it a pull.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>O'Donnell laughed
and paid him the six pieces.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>"Call that a
trick," said the fist-less lad, "Anyone can do that," and so
saying, he put up his hand, pulled his ear, and what happened was that he
pulled away ear and head.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>"Sore thou
art, and sorer thou'lt be," said O'Donnell. "Well, O'Donnell,"
said the lank grey beggarman, strange are the tricks I've shown thee, but I'll
show thee a stranger one yet for the same money."</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>"Thou hast
my word for it," said O'Donnell.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>With that the
lank grey beggarman took a bag from under his armpit, and from out the bag a
ball of silk, and he unwound the ball and he flung it slantwise up into the
clear blue heavens, and it became a ladder; then he took a hare and placed it
upon the thread, and up it ran; again he took out a red-eared hound<a href="#_edn2" name="_ednref2" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="line-height: 107%;">[ii]</span></span></span></span></a>,
and it swiftly ran up after the hare.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>"Now,"
said the lank grey beggarman; "has any one a mind to run after the dog and
on the course?"</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>"I will,"
said a lad of O'Donnell's.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>"Up with you
then," said the juggler; "but I warn you if you let my hare be killed,
I'll cut off your head when you come down."</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>The lad ran up
the thread and all three soon disappeared. After looking up for a long time,
the lank grey beggarman said: "I'm afraid the hound is eating the hare,
and that our friend has fallen asleep."</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>Saying this he
began to wind the thread, and down came the lad fast asleep; and down came the
red-eared hound and in his mouth the last morsel of the hare.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>He struck the lad
a stroke with the edge of his sword, and so cast his head off. As for the
hound, if he used it no worse, he used it no better.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>"It's little
I'm pleased, and sore I'm angered," said O'Donnell, "that a hound and
a lad should be killed at my court."</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>"Five pieces
of silver twice over for each of them," said the juggler, "and their
heads shall be on them as before."</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>Thou shalt get
that," said O'Donnell.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>Five pieces, and
again five were paid him, and lo! the lad had his head and the hound his. And
though they lived to the uttermost end of time, the hound would never touch a
hare again, and the lad took good care to keep his eyes open.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>Scarcely had the
lank grey beggarman done this when he vanished from out their sight, and no one
present could say if he had flown through the air or if the earth had swallowed
him up.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>He moved as wave
tumbling o'er wave<br />
As whirlwind following whirlwind,<br />
As a furious wintry blast,<br />
So swiftly, sprucely, cheerily,<br />
Right proudly,<br />
And no stop made<br />
Until he came<br />
To the court of Leinster's King,<br />
He gave a cheery light leap<br />
O'er top of turret,<br />
Of court and city<br />
Of Leinster's King.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>Heavy was the
flesh and weary the spirit of Leinster's king. 'Twas the hour he was wont to
hear a story, but send he might right and left, not a jot of tidings about the storyteller
could he get.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>"Go to the
door," said he to his doorkeeper, "and see if a soul is in sight who
may tell me something about my storyteller."</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>The doorkeeper
went, and what he saw was a lank grey beggarman, half his sword bared behind
his haunch, his two old shoes full of cold road-a-wayish water sousing about
him, the tips of his two ears out through his old hat, his two shoulders out
through his scant tattered cloak, and in his hand a three-stringed harp.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>"What canst
thou do?" said the doorkeeper.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>"I can
play," said the lank grey beggarman.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>"Never
fear," added he to the storyteller, "thou shalt see all, and not a
man shall see thee."</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>When the king
heard a harper was outside, he bade him in.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>"It is I
that have the best harpers in the five-fifths of Ireland," said he, and he
signed them to play. They did so, and if they played, the lank grey beggarman
listened.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>Heardst thou ever
the like?" said the king.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>"Did you
ever, O king, hear a cat purring over a bowl of broth, or the buzzing of
beetles in the twilight, or a shrill tongued old woman scolding your head
off?"</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>"That I have
often," said the king.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>"More
melodious to me," said the lank grey beggarman, "were the worst of
these sounds than the sweetest harping of thy harpers."</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>When the harpers
heard this, they drew their swords and rushed at him, but instead of striking
him, their blows fell on each other, and soon not a man but was cracking his neighbor’s
skull and getting his own cracked in turn.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>When the king saw
this, he thought it hard the harpers weren't content with murdering their music
but must needs murder each other.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>"Hang the
fellow who began it all," said he; "and if I can't have a story, let
me have peace."</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>Up came the
guards, seized the lank grey beggarman, marched him to the gallows and hanged
him high and dry. Back they marched to the hall, and who should they see but
the lank grey beggarman seated on a bench with his mouth to a flagon of ale.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>Never welcome you
in," cried the captain of the guard, "didn't we hang you this minute,
and what brings you here?"</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>"Is it me
myself, you mean?</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>"Who
else?" said the captain.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>"May your
hand turn into a pig's foot with you when you think of tying the rope; why
should you speak of hanging me?"</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>Back they scurried
to the gallows, and there hung the king's favorite brother. Back they hurried
to the king who had fallen fast asleep.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>"Please your
Majesty," said the captain, "we hanged that strolling vagabond, but
here he is back again as well as ever."</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>"Hang him
again," said the king, and off he went to sleep once more.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>They did as they
were told, but what happened was that they found the king's chief harper
hanging where the lank grey beggarman should have been.<span> </span>The captain of the guard was sorely puzzled.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>"Are you
wishful to hang me a third time?" said the lank grey beggarman.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>"Go where
you will;" said the captain, "and as fast as you please if you'll
only go far enough. It's trouble enough you've given us already."</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>"Now you're
reasonable," said the beggarman; "and since you've given up trying to
hang a stranger because he finds fault with your music, I don't mind telling
you that if you go back to the gallows, you'll find your friends sitting on the
sward none the worse for what has happened."</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>As he said these
words he vanished; and the storyteller found himself on the spot where they
first met, and where his wife still was with the carriage and horses.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>"Now,"
said the lank grey beggarman, "I'll torment you no longer. There's your
carriage and your horses, and your money and your wife; do what you please with
them."</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>"For my
carriage and my horses and my hounds," said the storyteller, "I thank
you; but my wife and my money you may keep."</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>"No,"
said the other. "I want neither, and as for your wife, don't think ill of
her for what she did, she couldn't help it."</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>"Not help it! Not
help kicking me into the mouth of my own hounds! Not help casting me off for
the sake of a beggarly old ——-"</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>"I'm not as
beggarly or as old as ye think. I am Angus of the Bruff; many a good turn
you've done me with the King of Leinster. This morning my magic told me the
difficulty you were in, and I made up my mind to get you out of it. As for your
wife there, the power that changed your body changed her mind. Forget and
forgive as man and wife should do, and now you have a story for the King of
Leinster when he calls for one;" and with that he disappeared.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>It's true enough
he now had a story fit for a king. From first to last he told all that had
befallen him; so long and loud laughed the king that he couldn't go to sleep at
all. And he told the storyteller never to trouble for fresh stories, but every
night as long as he lived he listened again and he laughed afresh at the tale
of the lank grey beggarman.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><i><span>Celtic Fairy Tales</span></i><span>,
by Joseph Jacobs, [1892], at <a href="https://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/cft/cft19.htm" target="_blank">sacred-texts.com</a>.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>__________________________________</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>As a storyteller,
I love this tale. First, there is a king who loves hearing stories so much that
he rewards his favorite teller with a lovely estate (one could only wish!). In
return, the storyteller must tell the king a new story every night. In doing
so, the king can sleep peacefully, no matter what trials have occurred during
the day. Imagine for just a minute how the telling of a story, could eliminate
any worries that interrupt our sleep. I imagine a story that catches you from
the start but over time grows more complex and slow moving. Perhaps the story
is filled with such delightful imagery that you just want to close your eyes to
envision it.<span> </span>And once done, you are
fast asleep.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>But trouble comes
because eventually the teller runs out of tales. The storyteller promises the king
a new story every night until his death. This could go on for many years, so I
can see why this is the king’s favorite teller.<span>
</span>Actually, I’m not sure if I could come up with that many new stories.<span> </span>So, I challenged myself to the task. What
type of stories would I tell? Mythos, certainly, that is the remarkable
stories from mythology, religion, and sacred texts. For me, that would be
stories from Greek mythology - Demeter and Persephone, the Fates, Medusa.<span> </span>It would be stories from the world’s wisdom traditions:
stories of how Prince Siddhartha became the Buddha, and the Hindu tale of the birth
of the world. (Spoiler alert, the world opens from a lotus flower growing from
the belly of Vishnu!)<span> </span>It would also
include stories from the Bible - Samson, Naomi, Daniel, or the parables Jesus
told himself. </span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>Then, I’d move on
to sharing folktales with the king. <span> </span>These would be the stories of my ancestors –
Celtic tales and stories from the Brothers Grimm. Most of them, you might
imagine, are about a wise crone. Some of them are fairy tales filled with
magical elements, beings, and the otherworld. These are the stories that make
my heart sing. There are 50 stories, more or less. especially if I dig down to
the stories I was told as a child.<span> </span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>But as a
storyteller, I’m always thinking of the telling.<span> </span>Which ones are “good” stories to tell?<span> </span>Which ones will fit the time, place, and the audience?<span> </span>Which ones impart the meaning that is needed
today? Then there are the stories I know that are not mine to tell. They are the
stories of other cultures and peoples. They are also stories that are “medicine”
told by shamans and elders skilled in healing. Still, they are beyond my
knowledge and skill to tell.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>Certainly, there
are other stories. Stories of our culture and stories of our country.<span> </span>Stories that make us feel uncomfortable and
stories that make us feel proud. Some are legends and some are historical. All
these stories deserve remembering – the legends of Johnny Appleseed and John
Henry, or of George Washington cutting down the cherry tree and Benjamin
Franklin flying a kite. It’s the stories that show triumph after adversity that
are most important to remember.<span> </span>I
envision the Wright Brothers, Helen Keller, and Rosa Parks. Stories of the
underground railroad, yes, and of suffragettes on hunger strikes, Japanese internment
camps, and Rosie the Riveter. In telling these stories we remember who we are
and who we can be. In doing so, there is less chance we will forget Lady Liberty
when she welcomes new immigrants to our shores.<span>
There are b</span>roken stories, fragmented stories, stories still being made sense of
and excavated from history. Stories we were never taught in school and are
needing rediscovery. <span> </span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>That leaves the stories
each of us keep within our hearts and memories - times when we learned and
grew. I tell only a few of those to audiences - stories about my dad and growing
up during the cold war.<span> </span>To be honest, I
feel more comfortable telling traditional tales than stories about me. Yet,
these stories are important too – to my children and sometimes to history when
we live through notable events. Often these memories do not rise to stories and
remain as anecdotes.<span> </span>Sometimes they are simple
characterizations of the crones in my life. These are the memories of my grandmother
that I’d like to pass on.<span> </span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>This is the one
that comes to mind today. Alice was my material grandmother. She grew up poor in
rural North Carolina.<span> </span>Her husband was
off logging while she was left with six children.<span> </span>Alice worked the fields.<span> </span>She grew produce, cared for chickens and cows,
cooked, cleaned, cut hair and made clothes for the family.<span> </span>She became "MawMaw" when my sister was born.
This woman, who had a 6<sup>th</sup> grade education, ended each day by reading
the Bible.<span> </span>She made beautiful clothes
and hats.<span> </span>Her pound cakes were legendary
and sold for the most at church raffles. She loved to watch Gorgeous George “wraslin.”
Her entertainment was to pick up the party line telephone and listen to her neighbor’s
conversations!<span> </span>She went to church for as
long as she could, always with perfectly coifed hair, costume jewelry, hat, and
gloves. Oh, yes!<span> </span>And she always voted!</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>She had six
grandchildren. My cousins and I always migrated to her house and her laissez-faire
style of child raising. I was not her favorite but that was always fine with
me. It’s much better to be feral that fussed over. When she was feeling kind, she
would take out her false teeth and we’d all laugh together at the sight.<span> </span>When she was irritated, she would threaten to
smack us “chaps” with her fly swatter. <span> </span>She had a mean streak that sometimes focused on my
mother and father. Mostly, she was quirky, nosy, and upsetting. <span> </span>I remember that she once wanted me to explain birth
control to her.<span> </span>I refused! She was supported
by her children yet lived in great fear of being sent to the “poor house.” She
painted one oil painting of an oak tree that I now have hanging in my den. </span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>That is not a
story, I know.<span> </span>It’s more of a portrait tied
up with summers in the south: stars, lightening bugs, humidity, the sound of
trains on the track, and the smell of an old, old house that was all hers. It was a house she wanted to take with her. There
isn’t much meaning there for anyone but me, the memory of a poor, uneducated
woman living off the land. <span> </span>It’s the kind
of story not worthy of telling even though this teller wishes she could impart a
bit of a time and a place that exists no more.<span>
</span>It’s a story she is glad to have lived.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span>So how many
stories is that? If I totaled them up it is certainly less than what’s needed
to fill the lifetime of the king. The storyteller in our story required a wild
and perilous journey to jump start his muse. But is this what I need? Is there ever a chance that I
might be story-less, that any of us are truly story-less?<span> </span>Do we really need a story prompt: </span><span>"there
was once a king who had three sons" or "one day the king of all
Ireland" did this or that? </span><span>Nah, all I need is to close my eyes and share what
is written upon my heart. That’s all you need to do too. I know someone would love to hear your story and I’m pretty sure that at
least one of those tales would put even a king to sleep. If not, it would at least be written on the listener's heart.<br /></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
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A night in Islay, a night in Man,<br />
A night on the cold hillside."</span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
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<p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
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mendicants,<span role="presentation"> </span><span role="presentation" style="transform: scaleX(0.901102);">whose</span><span role="presentation"> </span><span role="presentation" style="transform: scaleX(1.00201);">character bears</span><span role="presentation"> </span><span role="presentation" style="transform: scaleX(0.888184);">some</span><span role="presentation"> </span><span role="presentation" style="transform: scaleX(0.938063);">resemblance</span><span role="presentation"> </span><span role="presentation" style="transform: scaleX(0.952142);">to</span><span role="presentation"> </span><span role="presentation" style="transform: scaleX(1.06383);">that</span><span role="presentation"> </span><span role="presentation" style="transform: scaleX(0.952716);">of</span><span role="presentation"> </span><span role="presentation" style="transform: scaleX(1.03867);">the</span>
Gaberlunzie<span role="presentation"> </span><span role="presentation" style="transform: scaleX(0.987712);">man</span><span role="presentation"> </span><span role="presentation" style="transform: scaleX(0.940181);">of</span><span role="presentation">
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The red-eared hound is a creature in the otherworld (a magical, liminal place
in Celtic mythology). </span></span></p><p>
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</p></div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p>wisecronecottagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06905728573029477284noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-455236209379584574.post-87576871874826053522022-06-25T16:16:00.002-07:002022-07-10T18:07:13.150-07:00Tomes Scones and Crones by Colleen Gleason<p> </p><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58723490-tomes-scones-crones" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img border="0" alt="Tomes Scones & Crones: A Paranormal Women’s Fiction Novel (Three Tomes Bookshop Book 1)" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1628400739l/58723490._SX98_.jpg" /></a><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58723490-tomes-scones-crones">Tomes Scones & Crones: A Paranormal Women’s Fiction Novel</a> by <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/67481.Colleen_Gleason">Colleen Gleason</a><br/>
My rating: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4806659314">5 of 5 stars</a><br /><br />
This is a fun romp and a perfect way to escape. It's part mystery and part magic, filled with crones, witches and fictional characters. It is ultimately the story of a middle-aged librarian who inherits a magical book store and, in doing so, found her way home. The three crone characters are empowering and provide a positive expression of aging. This reader looks forward to meeting all these characters again.
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/65673423-kathy-shimpock">View all my reviews</a>
wisecronecottagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06905728573029477284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-455236209379584574.post-90334748103774310232022-06-20T10:37:00.000-07:002022-07-10T18:07:37.763-07:00"I Am Not Old"<p></p><p></p><p></p><p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>I am the standing ovation<br />
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</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>I am the fullness<br />
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</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>You think I am waiting to die<br />
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</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>I am a treasure,<br />
I am a map,<br />
these wrinkles are imprints<br />
of my journey.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Ask me<br />
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</span><p><br /></p>wisecronecottagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06905728573029477284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-455236209379584574.post-45921888910340211142022-06-01T17:27:00.039-07:002022-06-02T10:10:48.185-07:00Living the "Handmaid's Tale" - My Own Crone Story<p></p><p></p><p></p><p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i></i></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9Z13Y7einjYpzjT97M-QGfw1twN1zB5Gjbd9wZjn6LEiPlAfCP0pCDqtufdWEVaDwIC4XF8URmxnnvW2y8HFB8oc8E7rU8e5t0SE5df3zsDD2OKt3Td5PhtV9nFgIatz2LAdOajMDSY9V4ghS7bHyNt17xcyLgdY1cbnadcBh1ZRuOTz_WXGmPTtrOg/s1551/era.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1104" data-original-width="1551" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9Z13Y7einjYpzjT97M-QGfw1twN1zB5Gjbd9wZjn6LEiPlAfCP0pCDqtufdWEVaDwIC4XF8URmxnnvW2y8HFB8oc8E7rU8e5t0SE5df3zsDD2OKt3Td5PhtV9nFgIatz2LAdOajMDSY9V4ghS7bHyNt17xcyLgdY1cbnadcBh1ZRuOTz_WXGmPTtrOg/s320/era.jpg" width="320" /></a></i></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /> </i></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>The blog usually shares a folktale or fantasy story about
the wise crone.<span> </span>This month is an
exception.<span> </span>In July I turn 70, so for
once I’d like to share a part of my own crone story.</i></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">I grew up in the south in the 1950s.<span> </span>My Momma didn’t work outside of home.<span> </span>She always wore a dress and high heels
whenever she left the house.<span> </span>On Sundays,
we went to church.<span> </span>I wore a dress with
crinoline, a hat, and gloves. Her name was Mrs. Charles rather than Mrs. Minna and
that’s how she signed her checks.<span> </span>Her
own name had disappeared with marriage. That was how it was, and she followed
along without a thought.</span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">In 1970, I was 18 and started college.<span> </span>I joined what was then known as a “consciousness
raising” group.<span> </span>It was hosted by a
professor’s wife and held in their home.<span>
</span>I didn’t know what to expect. <span> </span>We
discussed the work of Betty Friedan, Germaine Greer, and Kate Millett.<span> </span>I became a Second Wave Feminist, and I
proudly used that name to define my beliefs and who I am. It’s a belief that
women and men should have equal rights and opportunities.<span> </span>It has nothing to do with hating men (no
matter what the conservative media says).<span>
</span>At some point, the conversation in our group turned to abortion. At that
time, women had no right to a legal abortion.<span>
</span>That didn’t mean abortions stopped, it just meant they went
underground.<span> </span>I heard horrific stories
from women who had back-alley or foreign abortions.<span> </span>Stories of how their uterus was perforated with
a coat hanger.<span> </span>Women who ended up in the
hospital; some dying, others sterile.<span> </span>I
heard stories of abuse, of rape and incest. The women telling the stories
cried.<span> </span>As we listened, we cried too. </span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">The patriarchy was strong at that time and women were seen
as extensions to men rather than as autonomous.<span>
</span>They couldn’t make choices about their own body because they were ruled
by their emotions.<span> </span>The only beings truly
rational were male. This practice began well before the Middle Ages when
medieval law made women the chattel of their fathers, then brothers, and finally
husbands. And so, it continued in this country. In 1981, federal law finally
ended the legal subordination of a wife to her husband.<span> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">We began to march with many other women to the capital in Denver.<span> </span>Marching for a women’s right to choose, but
for much more.<span> </span>We marched for women’s
right to autonomy, independence, and respect. We marched for equal opportunity.
We marched in the hope that one day we would be seen as more than Eve – fallen,
weak, menstruating, and ruled by emotions. I wore an ERA (Equal Rights Amendment)
bracelet on my wrist, hoping and praying that women would be added to the
Constitution.<span> </span>If passed, women would finally
have equality under the law.<span> </span>But that
still has not happened. Even today, the United States is not among the world's top
ten countries for gender parity.<span>
</span>We are number 30 out of the 154 countries (and if you are wondering, Iceland
comes in first!).<span> </span>But finally, in 1973, Roe
v. Wade was decided and a woman’s right to autonomy over her own body was
assured.</span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">While I never had an abortion, I held the hands of young
women who made that choice.<span> </span>These were women
too young to raise a child – single, alone and without the resources to do so. <span> </span>These were married woman whose husbands
refused to parent any child and gave them the ultimate ultimatum.<span> </span>These were the women who didn’t have the
income, didn’t have the support, the health care, the childcare to raise a
child. Contrary to the way some portray it, these decisions were not capricious
and not the result of irresponsible behavior.<span>
</span>Abortion was not used as “birth control.”</span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">This is a moral decision but not one the state should be
involved in making.<span> </span>The moment in which
a child is independent and viable of its mother is clear – birth.<span> </span>Prior to that, we struggle with conflicting philosophy,
theories, and precepts.<span> </span>When does life
occur?<span> </span>Whose life predominates: the life
that is here or the life that might be? <span> </span>There
is one person and only one person who should decide and that’s the mother.<span> </span>She decides after consultation with her
doctor, decides after consultation with her family and friends.<span> </span>She does not need input from the U.S. Supreme
Court, the church, or any other group unless she seeks it herself. She is not a
child and should not be treated as one. Ruth Bader Ginsburg writes, "</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The decision whether or not to bear a child is
central to a woman’s life, to her well-being and dignity. It is a
decision she must make for herself. When the government controls that
decision for her, she is being treated as less than a full adult human
responsible for her own choices.”
</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"> For the U.S. Supreme Court to remove a fundamental
right that women have had for over 50 years simply to pander to a conservative
minority is obscene.<span> It has been 50 years since I marched. My daughters and nieces must face it all again. Our fight didn't matter. </span>Sadly, it may be the start of our real life “Handmaid’s
Tale.” So again I cry for what is and for what may be.<br /></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">I am eternally grateful that my father, who was a feminist,
believed I could do and be anything I wanted and that it was always only a
woman’s right to choose.</span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p>wisecronecottagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06905728573029477284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-455236209379584574.post-54380252469687178442022-05-24T14:42:00.000-07:002022-05-24T14:42:59.892-07:00Embracing the Wise Old Woman Archetype<p><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh a8c37x1j fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" dir="auto">I'm
really excited about this class I created for SoulatPlay. It's about
the Wise Old Woman archetype and conscious aging. It's filled with
stories, psychological insights and tools for inner work. The class is
online and you can go at your own pace. But there is also an
opportunity to join in Zoom discussions. <a href="https://courses.soulatplay.com/p/wise-old-woman-archetype" target="_blank"> I hope some of you are able to join us.</a></span></p><p><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh a8c37x1j fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" dir="auto"><img data-imagetype="External" src="https://embed.filekitcdn.com/e/cjuKMqrA4jnfTvZxxzJPy8/87LskQoajEhzYVFtyYeW63?w=800&fit=max" style="border-radius: 4px; border: 0 none; display: block; height: auto; line-height: 100%; max-width: 100%; max-width: 100%; outline: none; text-decoration: none; width: 800px;" width="800" /> <br /></span></p><p><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh a8c37x1j fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" dir="auto"> </span> <br /></p>wisecronecottagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06905728573029477284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-455236209379584574.post-65170580889619946962022-05-24T10:25:00.000-07:002022-05-24T10:26:01.171-07:00The Crone's Answer to Book Banning!<p>As you might well imagine, the wise crone loves to exhume old stories and bring them back to life. She is against any censorship of ideas and especially book banning and book burning which to her is the tantamount sin and punishable by meeting Baba Yaga! Margaret Atwood (the most prophetic of wise crones) shows us that "powerful words can never be extinguished."</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/zpsMsAMY4eM" width="320" youtube-src-id="zpsMsAMY4eM"></iframe></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>wisecronecottagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06905728573029477284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-455236209379584574.post-54380568633747485622022-04-25T20:47:00.006-07:002022-04-27T16:55:12.768-07:00"The Thread of Fate" - the Greek Moirai<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfIMSyLc9KBJljflrq1SCIXmz1-aqevc2wCZq3LUmSEz86aes_zfRJQqTPedvJOZUAjMGt7W45ZqvfZ9sByOZbSryIBFEr8Lg6jkRAaJ7nT2nRImg1U15uaweXmE7Xtmzmz8rGV-TCTZuzxdgiHVNpsjWM5SK5o5IztHm25WNYPgyUW53jsj-nZRuuVQ/s390/Schadow_Grabmal_Alexander_2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="296" data-original-width="390" height="243" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfIMSyLc9KBJljflrq1SCIXmz1-aqevc2wCZq3LUmSEz86aes_zfRJQqTPedvJOZUAjMGt7W45ZqvfZ9sByOZbSryIBFEr8Lg6jkRAaJ7nT2nRImg1U15uaweXmE7Xtmzmz8rGV-TCTZuzxdgiHVNpsjWM5SK5o5IztHm25WNYPgyUW53jsj-nZRuuVQ/s320/Schadow_Grabmal_Alexander_2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">As dawn meets the new day, the chamber is finally still. For after a long and labored night, a child
is born. Not just any child, of course. This one is a princess: all pink and chubby, soft,
and cuddly, the perfect expression of baby-ness. There is much rejoicing throughout the
kingdom. All her fairy tale life lies
before her. Or so we might think, at least until the fairies arrive to give the
child a blessing. In “Sleeping Beauty,” the baby receives both a blessing and
a curse. A blessing of beauty, intelligence, and grace and a curse that prophecies an early death.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">The word fairy comes from the Latin word for fate. These are creatures who meddle in the affairs
of humans. But these fairies are a poor excuse for the Greek goddesses who
determined the course of every life at birth.
These are not fairies but Fates.
They were called the Moirai: three powerful and independent sisters who
plotted each person’s life course. They
determined the fate of humanity by marking two points in time – birth and
death. At birth what gifts are given to
this child? What curses? How would the
child be touched by good and evil? How
long would this life be? The Moirai work in secret to answer these questions.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">The character and nature of the Moirai is thought to be
different depending upon the author. I’ll
try to consolidate what is known. The word Moirai means “parts” or “shares.” Although some argue that these goddesses were
ugly, deformed old women; others depict them as the maiden, mother, and
crone. Either way, their duties were the
same. Dressed in white vestments, each goddess was allotted a different
task. Klotho was the youngest. She was “the spinner” who spun the thread of
life. She is depicted with either a spindle or a roll representing the book of fate.
She sings of the things that are. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">Lakhesis was a woman and the “apportion-er of lots.” She was the one who measured the thread and
sings of things that were. Lakhesis was represented as holding a staff pointing
to the horoscope on a globe. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">Atropos is the crone. Her name means “she who cannot be
turned.” Atropos is the oldest, the
smallest, and the most powerful of the three. She carries a pair of scales, a
sundial, or a cutting tool. She is the one who breaks or cuts the thread when
life is to come to an end. She sings of things that are to be. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">Because these were goddesses of fate, they knew the course of
the future. At times, they shared this prophecy.
It wasn’t their primary function for they weren’t oracles. At times they were also seen in the company of
death. They traversed the underworld traveling with Persephone back to the earth’s
surface. But they weren’t the goddess of death even though they set the date.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">At the birth of each child, the Moirai spun the thread of
fate. Fate as we know it is fixed but destiny is within our control. When might
fate be changed to destiny? Does free
will exist in this system at all? These are questions for Greek philosophers
but worthy of reflection, nonetheless.
In some writings, the Moirai were independent of the gods, and nothing
could challenge fate. Other writers say Zeus was able to challenge any decision.
As time when by, the Moirai lost some
power and their actions begin to be seen as more conditional.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">Let’s go back to the story of “Sleeping Beauty.” Was her fate inevitable? The good old woman in the story said, “not
knowing very well what to do in this affair, I cry out for help.” Which is all anyone can do in moments of
inevitability. It’s true any time we
feel our fate is sealed, whether it is through ancestry or genetics, or our
cultural programming. We seem caught
between the proverbial rock and a hard place – the free will to follow our destiny
seems less and less likely. In “Sleeping Beauty,” the king challenged fate by hiding
all the spinning wheels. But ultimately,
she pricked her finger and succumbed to a 100-year sleep. It was fate after
all and there was nothing a concerned parent could do.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">Yet again the wise crone is in the midst of it. What does she know of fate and destiny? Atropos is the one who carries the sundial
and knows when time is late. Atropos
carries the scales, which are needed for balance. She knows what to release and let go of. The wise crone lives in a state of
discernment. Who is worthy and
when? She seeks a balance of
integration. What was, was. What will be, will be. She sings of things that are to be. The wise
crone surrenders to life’s ebbs and flows.
Sometimes she accepts her fate – to be in a world filled with sorrow and
chaos. Sometimes she moves towards her destiny
to be in service to others. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">Carl Jung claimed that what is held in our unconscious is fated. What become conscious is our destiny. The ancient Greeks knew about fate and chose Atropos as the
elder. It takes experience and wisdom to
know when to cut the thread, when to let go and when to give up. She is more
than ready to release your fate if you are ready to take hold of your destiny.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><i>Image from</i> </span><i style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122;">The three Moirai</i><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122;">, relief, grave of Alexander von der Mark by Johann Gottfried Schadow (Old National Gallery, Berlin). </span></span></p>wisecronecottagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06905728573029477284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-455236209379584574.post-16451585541077294182022-03-04T16:55:00.004-07:002022-03-05T14:27:24.913-07:00"The Straw Bull-Calf" A Ukrainian Folk Tale<p></p><p style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiLSlxOOQbKvf29F1OmsmOHmYgfcADAuRe0RnDriShNC3ouZb21R0FKhRsreS1UTDIdK1HooeJBYrRVgW5L4_BbFpcEY3H54065p6f5d-PSFe0ZYcIi6xm1TW3BLPorv7xzGdsPGggydsDojtu6TgrO8KzgcKk9KyeRkWfpTE5zx69ohy0X03v8ygzKIA=s488" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="488" data-original-width="268" height="319" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiLSlxOOQbKvf29F1OmsmOHmYgfcADAuRe0RnDriShNC3ouZb21R0FKhRsreS1UTDIdK1HooeJBYrRVgW5L4_BbFpcEY3H54065p6f5d-PSFe0ZYcIi6xm1TW3BLPorv7xzGdsPGggydsDojtu6TgrO8KzgcKk9KyeRkWfpTE5zx69ohy0X03v8ygzKIA=w176-h319" width="176" /></a></p><br /><span>Once upon a time, there lived an Old Man and an Old Woman.</span><span> </span><span>The Old Man distilled tar, while the Old
Woman sat at home and spun thread.</span><p style="text-align: left;"></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">One day the Old Woman went after the Old Man: “Old Man make
me a bull-calf of straw,” she nagged.
“Make me a bull-calf of straw and smear it with tar!”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">“What nonsense! What
do you want with a calf of straw?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">“Just you make it. I
know what I want it for.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">He couldn’t talk her out of it, so the Old Man went ahead and
made a bull-calf of straw and smeared it with tar.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">In the morning the Old Woman took along some hemp and the
straw bull-calf to a pasture. She seated
herself beside a mound and began to spin, repeating the while: “Graze on grass,
my pretty calf, while I sit and spin some thread!” She kept spinning until she dozed off. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">Meanwhile, a bear ran out of the dark forest, out of the dark
woods, and ran into the bull-calf.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">“Who are you?” he growled. “Tell me quick!”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">“I’m a bull-calf, and I’m small, made of straw and smeared
with tar.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">“If you’re made of straw and smeared with tar,” said the
bear, “give me some tar to patch my torn side!”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">The bull-calf was silent, so the bear sank his teeth into him
to tear some tar away. He kept rearing
and tearing at him until his teeth got quite stuck and he couldn’t get them
free. He jerked this way and that, but
nothing doing! So he dragged that
bull-calf goodness knows how far away.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">When the Old Woman awoke, she found the bull-calf gone. “Woe
Is me!” she cried. “Where is my
bull-calf? Perhaps he has gone home
already.” She grabbed up her spinning
and ran home. In the yard she looked –
and there was a bear dragging her bull-calf around the place.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">“Old Man come out!” she called. “Our bull-calf has brought home a bear!”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">The Old Man ran out, tore the bear loose, and threw him into
the cellar.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">Long before dawn the next day the Old Woman again took her
spinning and the bull-calf to the pasture.
She seated herself beside a mound, spun thread, and kept intoning: “Graze
on grass, my pretty calf, while I sit and spin some thread.” She kept spinning until she dozed off. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">Meanwhile, a grey wolf ran out of the dark forest, out of the
dark woods, and ran up to the bull-calf: “Who are you? Tell me quick!”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">“I’m a bull-calf, and I’m small, made of straw and smeared
with tar.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">“If you are smeared with tar,” said the wolf, “give me some
to patch my side where the dogs have torn my hide.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">“Go ahead, take it!”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">The wolf at once sank his teeth into the bull-calf side,
intending to tear some tar off for himself.
He sank his fangs in, but he couldn’t get them out. He kept backing off, dragging the bull-calf
with him. Oh, he had a time with it!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">When the Old Woman awoke, the bull-calf was nowhere to be
seen. “He has probably gone home,” she
thought and went to the house. There
she saw the wolf dragging the bull-calf around.
She ran and told the Old Man, who threw the wolf, too, into the cellar.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">On the third day the Old Woman took the bull-calf to pasture
again. She seated herself beside a mound
and fell asleep. A fox ran up.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">“Who are you?” asked the fox.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">“I am a bull-calf, and I’m small, made of straw and smeared
with tar.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">“Give me some tar to patch up my side, dear fellow. Cursed
hounds almost tore the hide off me”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">“Take it!”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">The fox too sank his teeth in and couldn’t get them out. The Old Woman told the Old Man, and he threw
the fox into the cellar as well. After
that, they also caught a fleet-footed hare.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">When there was a whole collection of animals, the Old Man
seated himself over the hatch in the cellar and began to whet his knife. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">“Old Man, why are you sharpening your knife?” asked the bear.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">“To skin you with, and make winter coats out of your hide for
the Old Woman and me”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">“Please don’t butcher me, dear Old man. Let me go and I’ll bring you loads of honey.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">“See that you do!”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">And then he set the bear free. Then he sat over the hatch again and
continued whetting his knife.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">The wolf asked him: “Why are you sharpening the knife, Old
Man?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">“To take off your hide and make me a warm cap for the winter.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">“Please don’t butcher me, dear Old Man, and I’ll drive a whole
flock of sheep into your yard.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">“Don’t fail, now!” And
he let the wolf go. He sat down and
began to whet his knife again. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">The fox stuck his sly muzzle out and asked: “Tell me, Old
Man, if you please, why are you sharpening the knife?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">“Fox fur is fine for a fur collar and trimming,” he replied, “and
I intend to take yours.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">“Dear Old Man, don’t take my hide off and I’ll bring you
geese and hens galore.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">“See that you do!” And he turned the fox loose. Only the hare remained. The Old Man kept on whetting his knife. The hare asked him why, and he answered: “The
fur of a hare is soft and warm. I’ll
make myself a pair of mittens and a fur cap for winter.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">“Please don’t kill me, dear Old Man, and I’ll bring you
ribbons and earrings and fine necklaces, only let me go free!” The Old Man release him as well.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">They self the night through, and in the morning just before
dawn, there was a rat-tat-tat at the door.
The Old Woman woke up: “Old Man!” she cried. “Old Man, something’s knocking on our door,
go and see what it is!”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">The Old Man opened the door – and there was the bear with a
whole hive of honey. The Old Man put the
honey away and had just got into bed again when there was another rap! rap! At
the door. He went out and found that the
wolf had driven a whole flock of sheep into the yard. Soon after that, the fox brought geese and
chickens and fowl of all sorts. And the hare
fetched a pile of ribbons, earrings, and fine necklaces.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<div style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border: medium none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-element: para-border-div; padding: 0in 0in 1pt; text-align: left;">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none; line-height: 150%; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; padding: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">The Old Man was glad, and the Old
Woman was glad. </span><span style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: 150%;">They lived in good health for many a
year and never had cause to shed a tear.</span><span style="line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">The story starts with the Old Man and the Old Woman. They seem to have no children and are both hard-working. One day the Old Woman asks the
Old Man to make a bull-calf from straw and tar. The request seems a bit
random. As the story progresses, we
might guess that she is tired of working so hard. We have no evidence that she is a fool, so she
must have a plan. When she asks the Old
Man to make a bull-calf of straw, he argues with her. “Why do you want this?” he asks. “How silly!”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">The Old Woman doesn’t explain, and she doesn’t justify or
defend her request. Even so, she is
insistent. It isn’t until the Old Woman takes the calf to the pasture that we see
magic afoot. She chants, “Graze on grass, my pretty calf, while I sit and spin
some thread!” That doesn’t seem to be
much of an incantation, but as we soon see, it most certainly is. </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">In fact, magical practice was
widespread in both Russia and the Ukraine. Scholars can document the spells and
rituals practitioners used in the past. In the Ukraine, women were most often
the practitioner. (For more see, <i>Witchcraft & Ukraine: 1000-1900</i>,
edited by Valerie A. Kirelson and Christine E. Worobec. Ithica, NY: Cornell Univ. Press, 2021). Worobec writes, “<span class="markedcontent">Living at the mercy of the environment, exploitative
classes and the state, peasants in the preindustrial world had a wealth of beliefs
and practices that explained their circumstances, provided them with safeguards
against adversity, and enabled them to counteract the calamities that befell them….
[Further] it permitted weaker members of village communities to take advantage
of the powers that their culture ascribed to witches and sorcerers.” But why was the object of her magic the
bull? To the peasant, having a bull meant prosperity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When you had a bull, you had the potential
for breeding.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To make a straw bull-calf
symbolized the prosperity that was to come.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">The calf comes to life and engages with the animals one by one. Each one wants some of his tar
to patch their skin. But when they try
to take it, they get stuck. This scene
is reminiscent of the African-American tale of “Br’er Rabbit and the Tar Baby.”
In that story, Br’er Fox makes a tar baby catch Br’er Rabbit. Br’er Rabbit strikes the tar baby because he
won’t speak to him. The more he fights the
tar baby the more he gets stuck. Such is
the same for these animals. They get stuck and then flail around with the straw
bull-calf as they try to get it off. The Old Woman alerts the Old Man telling him the "bull-calf has brought the animal home." He captures each animal and puts them in the cellar.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 150%;">This happens four times: first to the bear, then to the wolf,
fox, and hare. <span style="line-height: 107%;">(“[T]he best-known wild animals in Ukraine are
in fact the fox, the wolf, the bear and the hare.” Lintur, Petro, “A Survey of
Ukrainian Folktales.” Occasional Research Repts. 56. Edmonton: Canadian Inst.
Ukrainian Studies Press, 1994.)</span> Each gets stuck to the straw
bull-calf, then captured by the Old Man and thrown into the cellar. And that is where they stay until the Old
Man is ready to kill them for their hides.
In a surprising development, the animals promise to bring gifts to the
couple in exchange for their lives. </span><span style="font-size: small;">The Old Man kindly agrees, the animals are released, and true to
their word. They bring honey, sheep, geese, chickens, and fowl to the couple.</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;">The Old Woman is also brought ribbons, earrings,
and a fine necklace.</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">The Old Woman in this story can perform magic. Why she hasn’t
done so before, we don’t know. Maybe she
has. Maybe she didn’t have the skill
until now. All we know for certain is that circumstances have now aligned so
that her “magic” brings forth the desired result - that is, the desire for more prosperity. </span>L<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">intur held, “that since wealth was a desired
goal in animal tales and in tales of magic, these genres come from a time when
there was still no private ownership, of the means of production and no class
differentiation.” (Lintur, Petro, “A Survey of Ukrainian Folktales.”)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As we see, these tales always contain the
history and culture of the people.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">This wise crone is patient. She is clever. She waits until the time is “right” before making
her move. She is not influenced by the opinions of others. She won’t take her husband’s “no” for an
answer. Neither is she cruel or mean to
him. She is simply persistent and
insistent. Her husband follows her lead
(as he probably has for many a year). And
with all the threats of skinning these animals, none die or are harmed. They are released. In exchange for this kindness, the Old Man
and the Wise Old Woman receive all they need to live simply and happily for the
rest of their days. The moral of the story is: Keep learning for you are never too
old to learn a new skill! Especially if that skill is magic!”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: left;"><i><span style="line-height: 150%;">The Straw Bull-Calf: Ukrainian Folk Tale</span></i><span style="line-height: 150%;">, trans. by John Weir. </span><span style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #666666; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Kiev : Veselka
Publishers, 1976. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: left;"><span style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #666666; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Illustrator (above), P. Repkin.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"> </span></p>wisecronecottagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06905728573029477284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-455236209379584574.post-72071603022024199402022-03-03T15:34:00.001-07:002022-03-04T16:36:21.857-07:00The Wise Crone in Ukraine<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/7r7IzrZMbkE" width="320" youtube-src-id="7r7IzrZMbkE"></iframe></div><br /><p></p><p> </p><p style="text-align: center;"> “Goddess Rising<br /><br />This is for the women<br />Who have walked with hidden shame<br />Stirring like all is well<br />Though weighted down in pain.<br /><br />This is for her Inner Child<br />Who longs to forget<br />Her innocence stolen<br />Body, soul and spirit rent<br />into pieces- fragments-broken-bent<br /><br />This is for the Maiden<br />Longing to belong<br />-To another -<br />In hopes<br />to make right the darkened wrongs<br />Not realizing-blinded by oozing wounds<br />Her own innate delicious power<br />Thick within her womb<br /><br />This is for the Mother<br />Breaking eons of fettered chains<br />For the children she has birthed<br />Through blood and breaths of change<br />She calls them Redemption<br />Regardless of their names<br /><br />This is for the Crone<br />Who called her shattered pieces Home<br />To herself-<br />To all her luminous bodies<br />Where she never dared to feel<br /><br />Making strong her bones<br />Crushing~ oppressors<br />With the swaying of her hips<br />Her hands soaring like doves<br />Honey dripping from her lips<br /><br />This is for the Wild Woman<br />Who traversed the Underground<br />Leaving her footprints<br />While taming the Hellhounds.<br />Like a seed breaking fallow ground<br />Emerging fruitful garden<br />No longer bound<br /><br />By the nightmare of the past<br />Awakened from the Dream-<br />Of Separation<br />SHE. IS.- merging realms between.<br /><br />This is for the woman, for the Goddess<br />For me<br />For you<br />Rising from our ashes<br />Making ALL things new~”
<br /> ―
<span class="authorOrTitle">
Mishi McCoy</span></p>wisecronecottagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06905728573029477284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-455236209379584574.post-85402466783536185282022-01-30T21:35:00.004-07:002023-11-30T11:04:07.437-07:00“The Little Old Woman with Five Cows” – a Siberian (Yakut) Folktale<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span><span style="line-height: 107%;"></span></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span><span style="line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEggekQd6WI5n-Grm8kHHykmbiQ2lIqr2D3liFvH_l2LTetByq0LCT6ruvy55ns_HpJo0M8bk_uMvVh3uQOh4nPq3mkuX9FiI1ni99DVQfpmTAqZwnAPVijxK82Qk7g3Hb4gVu9hZI-W5_yrX3skoq1A5mrWglMjHt8QZz0zdvLd0diwvia1moW5prevKg=s385" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="385" data-original-width="236" height="245" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEggekQd6WI5n-Grm8kHHykmbiQ2lIqr2D3liFvH_l2LTetByq0LCT6ruvy55ns_HpJo0M8bk_uMvVh3uQOh4nPq3mkuX9FiI1ni99DVQfpmTAqZwnAPVijxK82Qk7g3Hb4gVu9hZI-W5_yrX3skoq1A5mrWglMjHt8QZz0zdvLd0diwvia1moW5prevKg=w150-h245" width="150" /></a></span></span></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span><span style="line-height: 107%;"><br />One morning a little old woman got up
and went to the field containing her five cows. She took from the earth a herb
with five sprouts and, without breaking either root or branch, carried it home
and wrapped it in a blanket and placed it on her pillow.</span></span></span></span><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span>
</span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span><span>Then
she went out again and sat down to milk her cows. Suddenly she heard tambourine
bells jingle and scissors fall, on account of which noise she upset the milk.
Having run home and looked, she found that the plant was uninjured. Again she
issued forth to milk the cows, and again thought she heard the tambourine bells
jingle and scissors fall, and once more she spilt her milk. Returning to the house,
she looked into the bedchamber. There sat a maiden with eyes of chalcedony and
lips of dark stone, with a face of light-coloured stone and with eyebrows like
two dark sables stretching their forefeet towards each other; her body was
visible through her dress; her bones were visible through her body; her nerves
spreading this way and that, like mercury, were visible through her bones. The
plant had become this maiden of indescribable beauty.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span>
</span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span><span>Soon
afterwards Kharjit-Bergen, son of the meritorious Khan Kara, went into the dark
forest. He saw a grey squirrel sitting on a curved twig, near the house of the
little old woman with five cows, and he began to shoot, but as the light was
bad, for the sun was already setting, he did not at once succeed in his purpose.
At this time one of his arrows fell into the chimney.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span>
</span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span><span>‘Old
woman!’ take the arrow and bring it to me!’ he cried, but received no answer.
His cheeks and forehead grew flushed and he became angry; a wave of arrogance
sprang from the back of his neck, and he rushed into the house.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span>
</span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span><span>When
he entered and saw the maiden he lost consciousness. But he revived and fell in
love. Then he went out and, jumping on his horse, raced home at full gallop.
‘Parents!’ said he, ‘there is such a beautiful maiden at the house of a little
old woman with five cows! Get hold of this maiden and give her to me!’</span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span>
</span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span><span>The
father sent nine servants on horseback, and they galloped at full speed to the
house of the little old woman with five cows. All the servants became
unconscious when they beheld the maiden’s beauty. However, they recovered, and
all went away except the best one of them.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span>
</span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span><span>‘Little
old woman!’ said he, ‘give this girl to the son of the meritorious Khan Khara!’</span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span>
</span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span><span>‘I
will give her,’ was the answer.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span>
</span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span><span>They
spoke to the maiden. ‘I will go,’ she announced.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span>
</span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span><span>‘Now,
as the bridegroom’s wedding gift,’ said the old woman, ‘drive up cattle, and
fill my open fields with horses and horned stock!’</span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span>
</span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span><span>Immediately
the request was uttered and before the agreement was concluded the man gave an
order to collect and drive up the animals as the bridegroom’s gift.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span>
</span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span><span>‘Take
the maiden and depart!’ said the little old woman, when the stock of horses and
cattle had been given as arranged,</span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span>
</span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span><span>The
maiden was quickly adorned, and a finely speckled horse that spoke like a human
being was led up to her skillfully. They put on it a silver halter, saddled it
with a silver saddle, which was placed over an upper silver saddle-cloth and a
lower silver saddle-cloth, and they attached a little silver whip. Then the
son-in-law led the bride from the mother’s side by the whip, mounted his horse
and took the bride home.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span>
</span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span><span>They
went along the road, and the young man said, ‘In the depth of the forest there
is a trap for foxes; I will go there. Proceed along this road! It divides into two
paths. On the road leading to the east is hanging a sable skin. But on the road
leading to the west there should be the skin of a male bear with the paws and
head with white fur at the neck. Go on the path where the sable skin is
hanging.’ He pointed out the road and went away.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span>
</span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span><span>The
girl made her way to the fork in the road, but on coming to it forgot the
directions. Going along the path where the bear skin was hanging, she reached a
small iron hut. Suddenly out of the hut came a devil’s daughter, dressed in an
iron garment above the knee. She had only one leg, and that was twisted; a
single bent hand projected from below her breast, and her single furious eye was
situated in the middle of her forehead. Having shot forth a fifty-foot tongue
on to her breast, she pulled the girl from the horse, dropped her to the ground
and tore all the skin from her face and threw it on her own face. She dragged
off all the girl’s finery and put it on herself. Then mounting, the devil’s
daughter rode away.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span>
</span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span><span>The
husband met the devil’s daughter when she arrived at the house of the
meritorious Khan Khara. Nine youths came to take her horse by the halter; eight
maidens did likewise. It is said that the bride wrongly fastened her horse to
the willow tree where the old widow from Semyaksin used to tether her spotted
ox. The greater part of those who thus received the bride became sorely
depressed and the remainder were disenchanted; sorrow fell on them.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span>
</span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span><span>All
who met the bride abominated her. Even the red weasels ran away from her, thus
showing she was repugnant to them. Grass had been strewn on the pathway up to
her hut, and on this grass she was led by the hand. Having entered, she replenished
the fire with the tops of three young larch trees. Then they concealed her
behind a curtain, while they themselves also drank and played and laughed and
made merry.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span>
</span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span><span>But
the marriage feast came to an end, and there was a return to ordinary life. The
little old woman with five cows, on going into open country to seek her cows,
found that the plant with five sprouts was growing better than usual. She dug
it up with its roots and, carrying it home, wrapped it up and placed it on her
pillow. Then she went back and began to milk the cows, but the tambourine with
the bells began to tinkle, and the scissors fell with a noise. Going back to
the house, the old woman found the lovely maiden seated and looking more lovely
than ever.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span>
</span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span><span>‘Mother,’
she said, ‘my husband took me away from here. My dear husband said, ‘I must go
away on some business,’ but before he went he said, ‘Walk along the path where
the sable’s skin is hanging, and do not go where the bear’s skin is hanging.’ I
forgot and went along the second path to a little iron house. A devil’s
daughter tore the skin from my face and put it on her own face; she dragged off
all my fine things and put them on; and next this devil’s daughter mounted my
horse and set out. She threw away skin and bones and a grey dog seized my lungs
and heart with his teeth and carried them to open country. I grew here as a
plant, for it was decreed that I should not die altogether. Perhaps it has been
settled that later I shall bear children. The devil’s daughter has affected my
fate, for she has married my husband and contaminated his flesh and blood; she
has absorbed his flesh and blood. When shall I see him?’</span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span>
</span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span><span>The
meritorious Khan Khara came the field belonging to the little old woman with
five cows. The speckled white horse, who was endowed with human speech, knew
that his mistress had revived, and he began to speak.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span>
</span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span><span>He
complained to Khan Khara thus: ‘The devil’s daughter has killed my mistress,
torn all the skin from her face and covered her own face with it; she has
dragged away my mistress’s finery and clothed herself in it. The devil’s
daughter has gone to live with Khan Khara’s son and become his bride. But my
mistress has revived and now lives. If your son does not take this fair girl as
his bride, then I will complain to the white Lord God on his seat of white
stone, by the lake that has silver waves and golden floating ice, and blocks of
silver and black ice; and I will shatter your house and your fire, and will
leave you no means of living. A divine man must not take a devil’s daughter.
Fasten this devil’s-daughter bride to the legs of a wild horse. Let a stream of
rushing water fall on your son and cleanse him during thirty days; and let the
worms and reptiles suck away his contaminated blood. Afterwards draw him from
the water and expose him to the wind on the top of a tree for thirty nights, so
that breezes from the north and from the south my penetrate his heart and
liver, and purify his contaminated flesh and blood. When he is cleansed let him
persuade and retake his wife!’</span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span>
</span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span><span>The
khan heard and understood the horse’s words. It is said he threw aside tears
from both eyes; then he galloped home. On seeing him the bride changed
countenance.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span>
</span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span><span>‘Son!’
said Khan Khara, ‘whence and from whom did you take your wife?’</span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span>
</span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span><span>‘She
is the daughter of the little old woman with five cows.’</span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span>
</span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span><span>‘What
was the appearance of the horse on which you brought her? What kind of woman
did you bring? Do you know her origin?’</span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span>
</span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span><span>To
these questions the son answered, ‘Beyond the third heaven, in the upper region
which has the white stone seat is the white God; his younger brother collected
migratory birds and united them into one society. Seven maidens, his daughters
in the form of seven cranes, came to earth and feasted and entered a round
field and danced; and an instructress descended to them. She took the best of
the seven cranes and said, ‘Your mission is to go out to people; to be a Yakut
on this middle land; you must not dislike this impure middle land! You are
appointed worthy of the son of the meritorious Khan Khara and are to wear a
skin made of eight sables. On account of him you will become human and bear
children and bring them up.’ After speaking she cut off the end of the crane’s
wings. The maiden wept. ‘Turn into a mare’s tail-grass, and grow!’ said the instructress;
‘A little old woman with five cows will find the herb and turn it into a maiden
and give her in marriage to Khan Khara’s son.’ I took her accounting to this
direction and as she was described to me; but I accepted a strange being; in
reality, as appears to me, I took nothing!’</span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span>
</span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span><span>After
his son’s reply the khan said, ‘Having seen and heard, I have come. The
speckled horse with the human voice has complained to me. When you bore away
your wife you spoke to her of a forked road. You said, ‘On the eastern path
there is hanging a sable’s skin and on the western path a bear’s skin.’ You
said, ‘Do not go on the path with the bear’s skin, but go along the path
showing a sable skin!’ But she forgot, and passed along the path which had the
bear’s skin. She reached the iron house and then a devil’s daughter jumped out
to meet her, dragged her from her horse and threw her down, tore the whole of
the skin from her face and placed it on her own face. The devil’s daughter
dressed herself in the girl’s finery and silver ornaments and rode hither as a
bride. She fastened the horse to the old willow; it is already a mark. ‘Attach
the devil’s daughter to the feet of the wild stallion!’ said the horse to me,
‘and wash your son in a swift stream for a whole month of thirty nights; let
worms and reptiles suck away his contaminated body and blood. Carry him away
and expose him to the breeze at the top of a tree during a month of thirty
nights. Let the breezes search him from the north and from the south; let it
blow through his heart and liver!’ said the horse to me. ‘Let him go and
persuade his wife and take her! But away with this woman! Do not show her! She
will devour people and cattle. If you do not get rid of her,’ said the horse,
‘I will complain to the white God.’</span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span>
</span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span><span>On
hearing this the son became much ashamed, and a workman called Boloruk seized
the bride, who was sitting behind a curtain, and dragged her by the foot,
fastened her on the legs of a while horse. The horse kicked the devil’s
daughter to pieces and to death. Her body and blood were attacked on the ground
by worms and reptiles, and became worms and reptiles moving about till the
present time. After being placed in a stream of rushing water the khan’s son
was placed on a tree, so that the spring breezes coming from the north and from
the south blew through him. Thus his contaminated body and blood were purified
and, when he was brought home, dried up and scarcely breathing, only his skin
and bones remained.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span>
</span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span><span>He
rode to the region of the wedding gift as before and, having picketed his
horse, dismounted at his mother-in-law’s house. The little old woman who owned
five cows fluttered out joyfully; she rejoiced as if the dead had come to life
and the lost had been found. From the picketing spot to the tent she strewed
green grass and spread on the front bed a white horse-skin with hoofs. She
killed a milch cow and a large-breasted mare and made a wedding feast,</span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span>
</span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span><span>The
girl approached her husband with tears. ‘Why have you come to me?’ she asked.
‘You spilt my dark blood, you cut my skin deeply. You gave me up as food for
dogs and ducks. You gave me to the daughter of an eight-legged devil. After
that, how can you seek a wife here? Girls are more numerous than perch, and
women than grayling; my heart is wounded and my mind is agitated! I will not
come!’</span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span>
</span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span><span>‘I
did not send you to the daughter of the eight-legged devil and when I went away
on an important matter I pointed out your path. I did not knowingly direct you
to a perilous place and I did not know what would happen when I said to you ‘Go
and meet your fate!’ The lady-instructress and protectress, the creatress,
chose you and appointed you for me; therefore you revived and are alive,’ he
said, ‘and whatever may happen, good or ill, I shall unfailingly take you!’</span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span>
</span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span><span>The
little old woman with five cows wiped away tears from both eyes and sat down
between these two children. ‘How is it that, having me, you do not rejoice when
you have returned to life after death, and been found after having been lost?
Neither of you must oppose my will!’</span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span>
</span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span><span>The
maiden gave her word, but said ‘Agreed!’ unwillingly. Then the young man sprang
up and danced and jumped and embraced and kissed and drew in his breath. The
couple played the best games and burst into loud laughter and talked
unceasingly. Outside they fastened the speckled horse that spoke like a human
being, laid on him the silver saddle-cloth, saddled him with the silver
saddle, bridled him with the silver bridle, hung on him the silver saddle-bags
and attached to him the little silver whip.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span>
</span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span><span>When
the maiden had been dressed and was all complete on her she was sent off. She
and her husband knew as they went along that it was winter by the fine snow
that was falling; they knew it was summer by the rain; they knew it was autumn
by the fog.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span>
</span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span><span>The
servants from the nine houses of Khan Khara, the house servants from eight
houses and the room attendants from seven houses, and nine lords’ sons who came
out like nine cranes thought, ‘How will the bride arrive? Will she march out or
will she saunter? And will sables arise from her footsteps?’</span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span>
</span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span><span>Thinking
thus, they prepared arrows so vigorously that the skin came off their fingers;
they attended so closely to their work that their sight became dull. Seven
grown-up daughters like seven cranes, born at one time, twisted threads so that
the skin came from their knees, and said, ‘If, when the bride comes, she blows
her nose loudly, dear little kings will be plentiful.’</span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span>
</span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span><span>The
son arrived with his bride, and two maidens took their horses by the bridle at
the picket rope. The son and his bride dismounted and she blew her nose;
therefore dear little kings would come! Instantly the women began to weave
garments. Sables ran along the place from which the bride stepped forward, and
some of the young men hastened into the dark forest to shoot them.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span>
</span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span><span>From
the foot of the picketing post to the tent the way had been spread with green
grass. On arriving, the bride kindled the fire with three branches of larch.
Then they hid her behind a curtain. They stretched a strap in nine portions and
tied to it ninety white speckled foals. On the right side of the house they
thrust into the ground nine posts and fastened to them nine white foals and put
on the foals nine friendly sorcerers who drank kumyss. On the left side of the
house they set up eight posts.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span>
</span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span><span>Wedding
festivities were begun in honor of the bride’s entry into the home. Warriors
collected and experts came together. It is said that nine ancestral spirits
came from a higher place and twelve ancestral spirits rose from the ground. It
is said that nine tribes came from under the ground and, using whips of dry
wood, trotted badly. Those having iron stirrups crowded together and those having
copper stirrups wen unsteadily.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span>
</span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span><span>All
had collected from the foreign tribes and from the tents of the nomad villages;
there were singers, there were dancers, there were storytellers; there were
those who jumped on one foot and there were leapers; there were crowds
possessing five-kopeck pieces, there were saunterers. Then the dwellers-on-high
flew upwards; those dwelling in the lower regions sank into the earth; and the
inhabitants of the middle region, the earth, separated and walked away. The
litter remained till the third day; but before the morrow most of the fragments
had been collected, all animals had been enclosed and children were sporting in
the place. Their descendants are said to be alive today.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span>
</span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span><span>Coxwell,
C. Fillingham, <i>Siberian and Other Folktales. </i><span> </span>London: The C.W. Daniel Co., 1925.<span> </span>(Available online on Hathitrust).</span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span>
</span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span><span>-------------------------------------- <br /></span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span>
</span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>The
story of “The Little Old Woman with Five Cows” is a complex tale.<span> </span>It’s part folktale, part myth, with lots of
shamanic elements too.<span> </span>If we
wanted, we could follow the narrative from the perspective of three characters –
the arrogant tribal prince, the herb-maiden, and the old woman.<span> </span>But because the story is entitled “The Little
Old Woman with Five Cows,” it seems clear that the old woman has an important
part to play.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">The story begins with the little old woman in
the field with her five cows. Having five cows represents a woman of wealth.
She doesn’t have just one cow; she has a handful, after all.<span> </span>The old woman removes from the earth a
special herb and places it, roots and all, on her pillow. She identifies it and knows what to do. It is wrapped in a
blanket.<span> </span>She treats it tenderly, just as
one would an infant.<span> </span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">The old woman goes back to milk the
cows and hears a tambourine and scissors falling.<span> </span>Concerned for the safety of the plant, she
runs back to check, spilling the milk as she goes. But she doesn't stop to check on the milk. Se knows the plant is more important. All is well, so the old
woman returns to milking the cow.<span> </span>But again,
she hears the tambourine and the scissors, spills the milk and returns to the
house.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">This time she discovers a maiden resting
on the bed.<span> </span>The plant had become a
beautiful young woman. <span> </span>Outside a “prince”
is hunting.<span> </span>His errant arrow falls into
the chimney.<span> </span>He yells for the old woman
to take it out, but she is busy with the herb-maiden. Angry, he rushes in to
discover a beautiful woman. <span> </span>Beyond
"smitten," he demands his parents to “give her to me!”<span> </span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Servants come to the old woman’s house
to acquire the maiden.<span> </span>The old woman
agrees, but only if his family will give her the bridegroom’s wedding gift – enough
horses and horned stock to fill her open fields. She is, after all, a skilled negotiator. Once completed, she said, “Take
the maiden and depart.”</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">For the old woman, life returned to
normal. But all manner of trouble comes to the herb-maiden and the tribal
prince. One day while checking on her cows, she found again the plant with five
sprouts. It was growing better than ever before.<span> </span>She carefully took the plant from the ground,
wrapped it in a blanket and placed it on the pillow of her bed. From here,
everything continued as before – tambourine shaking and scissors falling.<span> </span>The old woman ran back to the house twice,
while she was milking the cow.<span> </span>Finally,
she saw the beautiful maiden sitting once again on the bed. <span> </span>The maiden tells the old woman how she had
gotten lost and was murdered by the devil child who took her place. “I grew
here as a plant,” she said, “for it was decreed that I should not die altogether.<span> </span>Perhaps it has been settled that later I
shall bear children.”</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Outside of the old woman’s house, the
father speaks to the speckled white horse endowed with human speech. The horse
explains what has happened and why it is important for his son to marry this “holy
girl.” In quizzing his son on where he found the girl, the mythology of the
Yukat people is explained.<span> </span>The tribal
prince states that during the creation of the middle land, an “instructress cut
off the crane’s wings.<span> </span>She then states, “Turn
into a mare’s tail grass, and grow! A little old woman with five cows will find
the herb and turn it into a maiden and give her in marriage to Khan Khara’s son.”
It seems that the creation of this maiden through the actions of the old woman was
destined and I’m guessing she knew this all along. </span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">After a purification ritual of the
tribal prince, he returns to the old woman’s house. She is described as fluttering
out joyfully. “She rejoiced as if the dead had come to life and the lost had
been found.” She began to prepare the area for a wedding feast.<span> </span>But her actions may be premature for the couple’s
reunion is not a happy one.<span> </span>They began
to quarrel about what happened.<span> </span>For the
first time, the herb-maiden speaks her mind and tells her husband “No!” She will not return with him.<span> </span>It seems that this incarnation embodied a
more autonomous and strong-willed being. <span> </span>Perhaps even a more authentic one. But the
tribal prince does not give up. Again, he shares what was destined to be. “The
lady instructress and protectress, the creatress, chose you and appointed you
for me.”</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">The old woman watches this exchange in
tears.<span> </span>She sits down between them and
seeks to heal the relationship.<span> </span>“How is
it that, having met, you do not rejoice when you have returned to life after
death, and been found after having been lost? Neither of you must oppose my
will!” Her tone mimics that of the instructress who told the seven cranes not
to “dislike this impure middle land!”</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">The herb-maiden agrees, and the couple
laughs and plays.<span> </span>What was destined
occurs as the couple make their way back to their tribal home.<span> </span>The cosmos is realigned and all was right in
the world. Nothing else is said of the little old woman but she certainly lived
wisely and most prosperously for the rest of her days.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Who is this little old woman? Does she
represent the mythic, fertile, mother-earth spirit of the Siberian tribes?<span> </span>Or is she a shaman? It’s a question that can’t
truly be answered without being of the times and peoples the story derived
from.<span> </span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">In the practice of Tengrism (an
ancient Turkie or Mongolian tradition), there is an earth-mother goddess/spirit
of fertility and virginity. This goddess is part of a trilogy with a sky god
and holy chosen ruler.<span> </span>All these
elements can be found in this story. It is believed that by living an upright, respectful
life, a human will keep the world in balance and perfect his personal Wind
Horse or Spirit. Perhaps this is the quest of the tribal son – to keep the
world in balance by becoming a worthy husband. <span class="hgkelc">Turkic folk
religion was based on Animism and is like various other religious traditions of
Siberia, Central Asia and Northeast Asia. </span></span><span style="line-height: 107%;">Yakut shamanism itself is a Turkic,
Mongolic, and Tungusic blend of belief in the supernatural. It has an emphasis
on the ability of "white," or benign, shamans to intercede, through
prayers and séances, with eastern spirits for the sake of humans. </span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">To
me, the old woman is a shaman.<span> </span>She clearly
knows the prophecy.<span> </span>She identifies the
herb and understands its importance.<span> </span>She is
aware of the ritual to bring life from the herb.<span> </span>When she hears the tambourine and scissors
falling, she rushes to see the soul of the herb-maiden enter from another world.<span> The tambourine announces her arrival in celebration. The falling scissors perhaps represent cutting an opening from one world to the next.</span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span>Little she may be, but only in size. </span>The old woman is a shrewd negotiator and
makes sure to get the bridegroom’s share of horses and cattle for the bride.<span> </span>She
seemingly remains unaware of the fate of her child.<span>
</span>Yet when the herb mysteriously appears again, she knows exactly what to
do. The old woman “births” her daughter, just as before. </span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">In this story, the little old woman appears as
shaman, healer, midwife, and creator. When the couple bickers, she weeps
and then sits between them, telling them in essence “life is short, don’t miss
the opportunity before you.” She is an "instructress.<span>" </span>Her words are spoken as much to the us as to the
couple.<span> </span></span><span style="line-height: 107%;">“How
is it that, having met, you do not rejoice when you have returned to life after
death, and been found after having been lost?” </span><span style="line-height: 107%;">She is able to traverse the worlds of
the holy herb-maiden and the tribal prince to weave together destiny. Because
of her wisdom the cosmos realigned, for these people, their descendants, and
all of us.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>“The
dwellers-on-high flew upwards; those dwelling in the lower regions sank into
the earth; and the inhabitants of the middle region, the earth, separated and
walked away. The litter remained till the third day; but before the morrow most
of the fragments had been collected, all animals had been enclosed and children
were sporting in the place. Their descendants are said to be alive today.” And such
is true for the little old woman with her five cows. And such may be true for us too!<br /></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
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