Chapter 137 136 Philo Doro and Filomena

Once upon a time there was a shoemaker's daughter named Philomena.Her parents are very old.One day, her mother said to her, "Filomena, go to the vegetable garden and buy a cabbage for soup. If you don't see the owner of the vegetable garden, pull one yourself and put the money on the ground. Be careful, don't treat the cabbage as a vegetable." Pull out the cabbage." The girl came to the vegetable garden, but the owner of the vegetable garden was not there.She went to pull the cabbage, but she accidentally pulled out a cabbage.She put a crown in the place where the vegetables were picked.As soon as the money fell to the ground, it disappeared in an instant, and a small open crystal window appeared on the ground.A handsome young man stood at the window and said, "Come to me, dear lady, I love you very much!"

Then, as if attracted by a magnetic force, Filomena was drawn to the basement, a room worthy even of a queen.The boy kissed her and said, "My name is Filo Doro, and you are my bride." Then he gave her a bag of money and said, "Go home, but you will come to see me every day. You You can always find that cabbage where you plucked it this morning. You pluck it and put a crown on it, and you'll see me again. But remember, only you can see me. No one is allowed to see me except you." Filomena returned home happily and told her parents all about what had happened.The two old people were very happy, and they lived a prosperous life ever since.The girl goes to the dishes every day

garden; came home with a bag of money.But the mother wanted to see her daughter's groom very much. She begged, "Just let me see him once. I am your mother!" "No, mother. I'm out of luck if you see him." "But you must at least show me the place where he showed up. That's what you're asked to do!" So the girl took her mother there at last. "This is the vegetable garden, and this is the cabbage. Well, good-bye, mother, you must go." The old woman pretended to leave, but hid behind a walnut tree.Filomena pulled up the cabbage, dropped a crown, and saw a small window; but this time Philo Doro did not look through the pane.Desperate to see what her son-in-law looked like, the old woman threw a walnut through the window.The window panes were smashed.The boy's face came out, flushed with anger, and then disappeared, and the window and everything else was gone.The cabbage was back where it was, and it couldn't be uprooted like it used to be.

It turned out that Philo Doro was the son of a witch, who wanted him to marry a princess; but the fairies wanted him to marry the shoemaker's daughter.So the female demon cursed him and said: "You can only see one woman in the world, if you see the second one, you will die!" In order to prevent him from seeing other women (except his mother told him to marry) the princess of the harem), and the banshee locked him in that basement. The fairies want to free Philo Doro from his mother's curse, and they manage to make the first woman Philo Doro sees is Filomena, and make him fall in love with her.However, the moment he saw Filomena's mother, the curse was fulfilled, and he died in the arms of the banshee.

The female demon found that it was because of her curse that her son died, and she scratched her head in anxiety.For the fairies had cast a spell upon Philo Doro before, and his corpse The body did not rot.His mother buried his lower body in the soil and exposed his upper body, crying every day to see his beautiful face. At this time, because the groom disappeared, Filomena was very sad.She left home and went all over the world to find Philo Doro.One night she slept under an oak tree.A pair of doves landed on the oak tree, and Filomena heard them singing: Philo Doro is dead, coo, coo, coo, sweet Philomena is alive... coo, coo , coo coo: If she kills us coo coo coo coo coo coo and burns us coo coo coo coo coo Coo coo, coo coo, so she can save him, coo coo, coo coo, coo coo, he will come back to life again.

After listening to this song, Filomena waited for the two pigeons to fall asleep, quietly climbed the oak tree, caught them and killed them.She was on the tree and saw a light in the forest, so she climbed down from the tree and walked towards the light.The light was shining from a small hut, and the girl entered the house and asked for a fire to burn the two pigeons.In this room lived a fairy who turned into a baker, and he put doves into the fire.When he heard of Filomena's life, he said: "My daughter, put the ashes of the dove in this jar, and take this basket of figs with you. Go out of the window of the banshee and you will find her spinning. ;when she pulls the thread, she throws the spindle on the ground outside the window; then you pick up the spindle and stick a fig on it. The banshee eats the fig and she says thank you and tells you to come in. But be careful , for she will devour you in one gulp. You will not go in until she swears to Philo Doro's soul that she will never eat you. When you are in, show her that you have the magic weapon that can bring her son back to life. Ashes. Whatever the outcome, we have to resign ourselves to fate."

Filomena was very happy, and after thanking the fairy baker, she set off for the banshee's house.The banshee is spinning at the window.The girl stuck the figs on the spindle, and the succubus pulled up the spindle, and when she saw the fig, she ate it. "It's delicious!" she said joyfully. "O good man who put figs on the spindle, come in, and I will kiss you." "Not in, because you will eat me!" replied Filomena. The succubi threw out the spindle again, and Filomena inserted another fig. "Come in, let me kiss you! I promise not to eat you!" said the female demon after eating the figs.

"I don't trust your promise," said Filomena, and stuck another fig on the spindle. "Come in, I swear to Philo Doro's soul, I won't eat you." In this way Filomena entered the house.But when the succubi found out that she was the wife of Philo Doro, and had brought the ashes with her to bring her son back to life, she snatched away Filomena's jar, and came herself to raise her son from the dead.Then she locked her son in the basement, so that he could not see Filomena, and secretly planned to marry him to the princess. "Can there be such a thing?" remarked the fairies, who were determined to marry the shoemaker's daughter to Philo Doro. "In this case, let's curse that princess: within a month, the ground under her feet will crack open, and she will fall into hell."

The succubus left Filomena as her maid, trying to find an excuse to ask for eat her. "You must make five down comforters for Philo Doro, who is getting married," said the Banshee to her. "Here are the mattress covers. You have twenty-four hours to stuff them with down or I will eat you." Filomena rubbed her hands anxiously and cried.However, due to the spells that the fairies had cast upon Philo Doro, he could change shapes.So, he transformed himself, walked out of the underground palace, turned into a bearded man, and came to Filomena. "My dear lady," he said, "kiss me, and I'll get you all the down you need in a second."

Filomena replied: "If you were Philo Doro, don't tell me once, I could kiss you a thousand times. But I will never kiss you, even if it means my life." The bearded man smiled and disappeared in a blink of an eye.Then thousands of birds flew into the house through the windows.They flew in and out, flapped their wings, and scattered feathers of every beautiful color across the room.The feathers on the ground are getting thicker and thicker.In this way, Filomena was able to stuff five quilts with feathers within twenty-four hours, as the banshee had ordered. The female demon thought to herself: This must be the fault of my son.I want to see who wins and who loses.She said to Filomena, "You must go to my demon sister, who lives in 'Pleasant Hill,' and ask her to give you the music box."

It is said that to go to Happy Mountain, you must pass through the "Giant Snake River", "Blood River" and "Bile River".Even if you cross these rivers and reach the house of the banshee, you will still be in danger of being eaten alive.The poor girl had no choice but to cry. Behold, here comes a bearded man; he is none other than Philo Doro. "Let me kiss it," he said, "and I'll show you how to get that music box out and bring it back safe and sound." "If you were Filo Doro, I could make you kiss a thousand times," Filomena replied. "But I'd rather be eaten by those two succubi than let you kiss me. Philo Doro was so moved by her loyalty that she said, "Even if you won't kiss me, I will help you. When you get to the Serpent River, say, "What a fine macaroni, I can Eat three bowls of it!" When you reach the River of Blood, say, "What a delicious wine, I would like to drink three cups!" When you reach the River of Bile, say, "What fresh milk, I am glad to drink Serve three cups! "In this way, you will reach that banshee's house. Take this shovel, it will be useful sooner or later. Good-bye!" With that, the bearded man disappeared. When Filomena set off, she did as the bearded man told her.When the giant snakes heard that they were called macaroni, they parted ways and let the girl pass.Hearing that he was called Alcohol, the River of Blood also parted ways.Likewise, the river of bile let her pass when she heard herself called milk. Filomena climbed the Mount of Pleasure and came to the house of the banshee.She went into the house, scared to death.In the kitchen, a maid was baking bread.This maid was, like Filomena, a poor girl.Unfortunately, she fell into the clutches of the banshee.Three times a week, she had to scrape the ashes out of the stove with her hands and put the bread in.The poor girl had bruises all over her hands and was in terrible pain.But when the bread was baked and taken out of the oven, the banshee miraculously healed her so that the girl would not die.But the next time she baked bread, she had to suffer again. When the girl saw Filomena come in, she exclaimed, "My God, go away! What on earth have you come here for? Don't you know that the banshee will eat you?" "Even if she won't eat me, her sister will," Filomena said, "and I'll have to risk it." "What are you taking?" "music Box." "Listen, let's help each other out. I see you've got a shovel, so give it to me so I can put things in the furnace with it and take them out again without burning my hands. I Bring you the music box, and I'll find it all by myself." Filomena happily gave her the shovel and left with the music box.At this time, the female demon returned home and found that the music box was gone, so she screamed: "Giant snakes, someone stole from me and ate her alive!" "No," said the snakes, "she calls us macaroni!" And they let her pass. "Blood River, drown her!" "No," replied Blood River, "she calls me wine!" So Blood River let her pass. "River of bile, roll her under the water!" "No," replied the River of Bile, "she calls me Milk!" and he let the girl pass. After crossing the three rivers, Filomena soon became curious to know what pieces and songs were contained in the box.She opened the box, heard a "whoosh!" and a "woo!" and there was no other sound, the box was empty, and the piece and song fled away.Filomena burst into tears. Behold, approaching a bearded man, it was none other than Philo Doro. "Would you like me to kiss you? I can help you get the tunes and songs back in the box." She replied as usual: "If you were Philo Doro, I'd let you kiss me a thousand times. But you, no way!" "I am Filo Doro!" The bearded man disappeared in a blink of an eye, and Filomena's husband stood there!Trembling with excitement, she flung herself into his arms and kissed him a thousand times; while the music and the song came back into the box, and the country was full of sweet music. "Go home happily, Filomena," said Filo Doro, "and in three days we shall be husband and wife." The girl happily returned to the banshee.The banshee thought that the girl must be drowned by the three rivers, or swallowed up by her sister, and she was going to marry her son to the princess, but the princess was cursed by the fairies to live only three more days.When the succubus saw Filomena enter the room with the music box, she turned blue with anger, and said, "In three days my son will be married. At the wedding ceremony, you will hold the candlestick in your hand." Philo Doro seemed willing to attend the wedding, but he requested that the ceremony be held in the middle of the night.The guests waited, but there was no sign of the wedding procession.Filomena, candlestick in hand, grew more and more uneasy as the minutes passed.Here comes the wedding procession, with Philo Doro on the princess' arm.At this moment, the church bell rang, ding, ding, ding, struck twelve.The ground split under the princess' feet, and she fell into the flames of hell. Filo Doro held Filomena's hand and said, "This is my bride." Divine music wafted from the music box. Philo Doro and Filomena are married.At this time, the female demon screamed, put her hands on her forehead, and cursed: "The person who charms my son will give birth to a child in the future, and he will die when he is born; unless I cover my forehead with both hands like now, the child will die." won't die!" Filomena was so frightened that her legs went limp when she heard the incantation.But Philo Doro held her hand firmly and gave her courage. Later, Filomena became pregnant.Philo Doro told her: "When you think you're about to have a baby, you put on mourning and go to my mother. She'll ask you why you're wearing mourning, and you say, 'Because Philo Doro is dead.'" Filomena did just that.When the female demon heard "Philo Doro is dead", she immediately covered her forehead with her hands, and cried sadly: "My poor son!" Filomena immediately gave birth to a beautiful boy safely. At this moment, Philo Doro came over.Seeing that the son was alive, the witch forgave him and his wife, and prayed for the child's blessing.Since then, they have lived a peaceful and harmonious life. (Basilicata region)