The Serpent-Wife, There was when a gentleman who’d a labourer whom never went about in business.

The Serpent-Wife, There was when a gentleman who’d a labourer whom never went about in business.

Ukrainian folktale. The labourer obeyed, and for their master because the Serpent had told him.

Their fellow-servants did all they might in order to make him come with them, and from now on and then enticed him to the tavern, nonetheless they could never get him to remain here long, in which he constantly wandered away by himself through the forests. 1 day he went strolling about into what is waplog the woodland as always, definately not any town in addition to haunts of males, as he discovered a big Serpent, which wriggled right up to him and stated, “I ’m going to eat thee at that moment! ” But the labourer, who was simply familiar with the loneliness associated with woodland, responded, “Very well, consume personally me personally if thou hast a brain to! ”––Then the Serpent stated, “Nay! We will not consume thee; only do the things I tell thee! ” Therefore the Serpent started initially to tell the guy exactly just what he previously to accomplish. Fortsätt läsa