澳门开奖结果2023开奖记录

Tale Summary

Once there was a King with three sons, named Szabo, Warza, and Iwanich. One spring they were all walking together admiring the fruit trees, until they came to a barren spot where there were three splendid trees. The King that a magician had given the seed to his father, and on his deathbed told him to transplant them to the wasteland. The magician warned that if a single unripe fruit was picked, all the rest would die, and so a gardener was sent to guard them. One night the fruit all disappeared, and the next year the King picked an unripe fruit and the rest died, and all the following years someone unseen had picked all the fruit. Szabo, the eldest, resolved to guard the fruit but fell asleep, and the next year the same happened with Warza, and neither saved the fruit. Iwanich had his turn and caught a white swan, who became a beautiful maiden named Militza, whom he fell in love with. She said that the seed was stolen from her mother, which killed her, but before her death she instructed the girl to take the fruit every year as soon as it was ripe, but now he broke the spell. They spent the night together, but she explained that a witch had power over her and she must leave, but gave him a diamond ring which would lead him to her. The King was delighted to see the fruit and threw a banquet, during which the prince snuck away. After three months, he came to a forest and met a tall, poor man who warned him that he should not enter because of dangerous beasts. The prince resolved to continue, because the bright shine of the ring told him it was the right direction, and the man gave him a bagful of bread-crumbs and a live hare and told him to leave his horse. He directed the prince that he should throw the crumbs on the ground when he was surrounded by beasts and then let the hare run away, so that they would be distracted and he could escape. He then met a short, prickly man with two lions attached to his beard, and was thanked for feeding his bodyguard.

He was given one of them as an escort through the forest and made it to the other side, where he released the lion. He then came to a white palace, and in the courtyard he found Militza. They rejoiced and were married, but after three months she was invited to visit her mother鈥檚 sister. She promised to return in three days and warned him not to go in a certain room. After three days the prince was too curious and opened the door, and saw a man in a cauldron of boiling black pitch. The prince fetched him some water, but the entire palace vanished in an instant and he left to find work, but the only job was to be a servant to the old witch Corva. She accepted him into her service and gave him the job of leading her black mare and its foal to a pasture each day and bringing them back in the evening. If he was able to do this for a full year, she would give him anything he wanted, but if he failed, his head would be cut off. He did this for some time, and one day found a fish flopping on the riverbank. He tossed it in the water and it gave him a scale, so that he could call on him in a time of need by throwing it in water. Soon after, he found an eagle being attacked by ravens and saved its life, and he was given a feather to use in a time of need by blowing it in the air. Another day, he found a fox caught in a trap and released him, and was given two hairs to use in a time of need by throwing it in a fire. Iwanich had three more days of service to the witch, and the night before the first of these he overheard her telling the horses that the following day they should wait until he was asleep and then hide in the river until she called on them. After a few hours of watching the horses the next day, magic overtook him and he fell asleep, and the horses hid in the water. He awoke in the evening and was distraught, but remembered his fish scale. He summoned the fish, who drove the horses out of the water so the prince could take them safely back to the witch. She was enraged, and after dinner he overheard her telling the horses to hide themselves in the clouds the next day while Iwanich slept. The following day he again fell asleep and awoke to find them gone, and this time summoned the eagle, who led the horses back to him. That night, he overheard the witch tell the horses to hide themselves in the King鈥檚 hen-house the next day when the prince was asleep. Just like before, sleep overtook him and found the horses gone, and summoned the fox. The animal told him to wait in front of the henhouse while he slipped through a hole and disturbed the chickens, so that the henwives would assume it was caused by the horses and would kick them out. While riding home, the mare told Iwanich that she would tell him a piece of advice if he promised not to betray her. He agreed, and she told him to ask for her foal as a reward, because it was valuable and could travel around the earth in a few minutes. The witch did her best to convince him out of this when he asked, but was obliged to keep her promise. She said she knew what he wanted, and that the man he set free from the cauldron was a magician who now had Militza under his power in a distant country. He would be doomed if he spoke a single word to him, and must grab him by the beard and hit him against the ground. Iwanich dashed away on his foal and found the magician, and the prince did exactly what he was instructed to do, and the foal kicked the magician until he was dead. Then he found Militza, and the two lived in happiness together for the rest of their lives.

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