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
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