Chapter 151 178. Calf with Golden Horns

It is said that once upon a time there was a husband and a wife who had two children, a son and a daughter.Wife dies, husband remarries; his new wife has a daughter who is blind in one eye. The husband is a farmer and wants to work on a fief.The wife was the stepmother of the first two children, so she did not want to see them at all; she made bread for the two children to send to their father; but in order to keep them from getting lost, she sent them to another fief to work with her husband The direction of the block is opposite.The children came to a great mountain and began to call their father, "Daddy! Daddy!" but only an echo came to answer them.

They got lost, and thus came by chance into the country, and the little brother began to feel thirsty.They found a spring water, and the younger brother wanted to drink it; but the younger sister had some spiritual energy, and she knew the potency of the spring water, so she asked: "Fountain, oh spring, the person who drank a bowl What will become? " Spring water replied: "Who drank my water will become a donkey. " The little brother endured his thirst, and they continued to move forward.They found another spring, and the little brother wanted to rush to drink.But the lady asked again:

"Fountain water, O spring everlasting, the person who drank a bowl What will become? " Spring water replied: "Whoever drinks a bowl of my water, It will become a beautiful wolf. " The little brother still didn't drink, and they walked on again.The two found another spring, and the young lady asked again: "Fountain water, spring water the person who drank a bowl What will become? " Spring replied: "Who drank my water will become a calf. " The elder sister didn't want the little brother to drink, but he was very brown, so he said, "I have to choose between dying of thirst and turning into a cow. I'd rather be a cow." She rushed to drink water.In a blink of an eye he was transformed into a calf with golden horns.

So the young lady took her younger brother, who had become a golden-horned calf, and set out on the road again.In this way they came to a beach.There is a small house on this beach, which is the villa of the king's son.The King's son was standing at the window, and when he saw a pretty girl come up to the sand with a calf, he said, "Come to me." "I can go up," she replied, "but my calf will be with me." "Why do you value it so much?" asked the king's son. "I like it very much, because I have been feeding it with my hands, and I don't want to part with it for a moment."

The prince fell in love with the girl, took her as his wife, and they lived together with the calf with the golden horns. At this time, when the father returned home, he could not see the two children, so he was very sad.One day, in order to relieve his sorrow, he went out to pick fennel.Came to the beach, he saw the prince's villa.Standing at the window was his daughter: she recognized her father, but he did not recognize her. "Come up, sweetheart," she said, so my father came upstairs. "You don't recognize me?" she asked. "If you want me to say, I don't think your Erkong is very strange."

"I am your daughter!" They embraced each other; she told her father that her little brother had become a calf, and that she was married to the king's son, and the father learned that the daughter he thought he had lost had such a good marriage, and that the son was still alive, though with Still very happy with such a change. "Now, Papa, you pour out all the fennel in the bag, and fill it with money." "Oh, how happy my second wife will be!" said the father. "Why don't you let her bring her one-eyed daughter to live here too?" Father agreed and turned to go home.

"Who gave you this money?" asked his wife, who was amazed to see the money. "My wife! Do you know, I found my daughter, she is now the prince's wife and would like us all to go to her house, me, you, and your one-eyed daughter." The woman was furious when she heard that the girl was still alive, but she said, "Oh, that's great news! I'd love to see her!" So the wife and the one-eyed daughter came to the prince's house while the husband was still packing their things.The prince was not at home, and as soon as the stepmother was alone with the girl, she caught her and threw her out of the window, which was near the sea.Then, put the one-eyed daughter in her sister's clothes, and say to her, "When the prince comes back, you start crying, and say to him, 'The calf stabbed my eye with its horn, and I am now blind!'" After finishing her, the woman went home.leave her there alone.

When the prince came back, he found the one-eyed girl lying there, crying. "Why are you crying?" asked the Prince, taking her for his wife. "The calf stabbed me in the eye with its horn and made me blind. Ouch, ouch!" Immediately the prince cried out, "Call the butcher, and kill the calf!" When the calf heard these words, he ran away, put his head out of the window facing the sea, and said: "O sister, my sister, Here they have sharpened their knives, They have the basin ready To contain my pure blood. " A voice from the sea said: "Your tears flow in vain

I'm in the mouth of a shark! " Hearing these words, the butcher didn't have the courage to kill the calf, so he ran to the prince and said, "Your Highness, come and listen to what the calf is saying." The prince leaned forward and heard him say: "Oh sister, my sister Here they have sharpened their knives, They have the basin ready To contain my pure blood. " Then a voice from the sea said; "Your tears flow in vain I'm in the mouth of a shark! " The prince immediately called two sailors and asked them to catch the shark.They caught it.Opening its mouth, his bride came out alive.

The stepmother and one-eyed daughter were put in jail.To heal the calf, they called in a fairy and transformed him into a beautiful boy, for he had grown a lot during that time. (Province of Agrigento)