Week 14 Story

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.

Bibliography: The Bad Wife, The Fiddler in Hell from RussianFairy Tales by W.R.S Ralston

 

Abyss Fire Inferno by Wraithrune

 

Reading Notes: Russian Part B

Fiddle to Hell

 

There once was a man who saved up all his money and put it in earns and buried them. He had three sons. When he died he did not mention anything about the money to anyone. When there was a festival in the village there came a fiddler that came to reveal the location but was sucked down to hell. When he saw the man they conversed and told each other why they were both in hell. The man told the fiddler to go sit on the stove over yonder and not to eat for three years. Then fiends came to mock the man for being sent to hell for storing money and not sharing. After they were gone he sent the fiddler away and told him to tell his children where the money was and to donate it to the poor. The fiends found the fiddler and told him to play. Before each time he asked god for a blessing and the strings snapped. They did this twice and he said he needed to go back to earth to get more since theirs didn’t work. The fiends agreed and when he got up on earth he told the children to do what their father asked. They did this and the more they gave away seemed to not empty the pot. In the end the lord sent angels to take the man to heaven.  

 Bibliography: Russian Fairy Tales by W.R.S Ralston 

 

Hell Nature Red by Rondell Melling

Reading Notes: Russian Part A

Bad Wife

There once was an extremely bad wife that would do exactly the opposite of what her husband told her to do. Her husband would ask her to wake up early and she would wake up three days later. He would ask her to make him pancakes and she would say that he was a thief and didn’t deserve pancakes. He would try very hard to be good to her. He once asked her not to make pancakes and she made two gallons full of batter and said, “Here you go thief.” One day he went to the forest to look for berries and to clear his head and found a giant pit. He thought what if I could just stick my wife in this pit. He thought he could solve his problem by teaching his bad wife a lesson. When he got home, he told his wife not to go into the forest to pick berries knowing she would do the opposite of whatever he said. She went into the forest and fell into the pit. After a few days the husband came to look for her and found an imp pleading not to go back for the bad wife had eaten all other demons. The husband agreed if the imp would help him cure the Boyars sick daughter. Once he did, he tricked the demon to get back into the pit saying that the bad wife was no longer there. The Boyar gave the husband wealth and his daughter to marry. The bad wife remained in the pit for the rest of time. 

Bibliography: Russian Fairy Tales by W. R. S. Ralston 

 

Abyss Fire Inferno by Wraithrune