The Evil Couple
There once were to very ungrateful human beings. There was a
wife who was very scornful and very mean to her husband. He would try to please
her but, in the end, she never appreciated it. She would always talk behind his
back and say rude things to him. The husband on the other hand was a very
greedy man. If you could save any money he would at all cost. There would be
times where the house needed repair, but he was to cheap to spend the money.
There was a time when he became very ill and refused to spend the money to get
better.
One day the man became so tired of the nagging from his wife
that he decided to go for a walk. On this walk he found a hole by a berry bush.
He thought to himself that if only his wife could fid her way into this bush
she would fall into the pit and no longer be his problem. So, the man went home
and told the wife that she was not to leave the house and was not to go into the
bush with the berries. She laughed at him and said, “I will do as I please, you
old, fat man.”
The man smiled for he knew what would happen. Just as he
thought the woman went out to the bush fell in the pit and was never seen
again. The man looked down into the pit to see only the tiniest bit of light coming
from it. He smiled inside knowing that she was in hell never again to bother
him. He turned from the pit to head home when out of the pit sprung a fiery
beast. It grabbed him and pulled him to hell. When he got to hell, he saw his
wife on the torture rack being tortured. The devil looked at him and said,”
Your greed you shall have a place beside your wife. You shall be tortured and
listen to her nagging for all eternity. You had every opportunity to give your
vast wealth you have horded in jars under your house to others, but you have
decided not to.” The man wept knowing the truth of it.
Author’s Note: I decided to combine two Russian stories. One
story was about an evil wife who did everything she could to make her husbands
life a nightmare. He told her not to go pick the berries and she did and fell
into a pit he knew was there. He no longer needed to see her ever again. The
other story was a man who went to hell for his greed. He had vast wealth saved
up but didn’t give it to anyone. A fiddler came to hell and talk his way out of
hell. When he got back to earth the fiddler told the man’s family to distribute
the wealth so that he could leave hell. They did so and he was rescued from
hell. I decided to make it a married couple of an evil wife and a greedy
husband. Both of which go to hell with no chance of redemption.
