The fairy tale that appeared - 'Grimm's Fairy Tales with Three Serpent Leaves'
There once was a poor man who was so poor that he could not even feed his son. The son said to him: "Good father, our life is so bad now, and I am a burden to you. I want to leave home now."
, to see if we can earn money to eat.”
His father blessed him and then sent him out of the house in grief. At this time, the king of a powerful empire was at war with others, so he joined the king's army and went to the front line to fight. When he arrived at the front line, he happened to catch up with the fierce battle.
The battle was very critical, and his comrades fell in the enemy's bullets one after another. When the commander also died, the remaining people planned to escape, but this young man stood up and boldly shouted to them: "
We must not let our country perish!" So the others followed him, and under his leadership defeated the enemy. When the king learned that this victory depended on him alone, he promoted him to the highest position
, gave him a lot of wealth, and suddenly he became the most prominent figure in the country.
The king had a daughter who was very beautiful but had a very strange temper. She only agreed to marry a man who promised to be buried alive next to her after her death. "If this man truly loves me," she said,
"What's the use of him living after I die?" In turn, she is the same. If her husband dies first, she is willing to be buried in the grave with him.
Her strange oath scared people away from proposing to her, but the young man was fascinated by the princess's beauty and desperately asked the king to marry his daughter to him.
"Do you know what kind of promise you are making?" the king asked.
"If I live longer than she does, I will have to be buried with her," he replied, "but I love her so much that I don't care about the danger." The king then agreed, and they held a grand wedding.
The young couple lived happily for a while, but the wife suddenly became seriously ill, and none of the doctors could cure her. After she died, the young husband remembered his promise and knew that he had to be locked up in the tomb alive.
Inside, he couldn't help but panic, but there was no other way. The king had posted sentries at each gate of the palace, so it was impossible for him to escape this fate. On the day of the burial of the body, he was also taken into the royal mausoleum.
Then the tomb door was closed and bolted.
Next to the coffin was a table with four candles, four loaves of bread and four bottles of wine. When these were consumed, he would starve to death. He sat there in great pain and sorrow, eating only a little bit of bread every day.
, only took a sip of wine, but death was still approaching him day by day.
While he was sitting there in trance, he saw a snake coming out of the corner of the tomb and crawling towards the dead body. He thought the snake was going to bite her flesh, so he pulled out his sword and said: "As long as I am alive,
Don't even think about touching her." After saying that, he cut the snake into three pieces.
After a while, another snake crawled out of the hole. When it saw that the first snake had been cut into three pieces and was dead, it crawled back. But after a while, it crawled out again, holding a snake in its mouth.
three green leaves. Then it put the three sections of the dead snake together and covered each wound with a leaf. In an instant, the several parts of the broken snake grew back together.
The snake moved a few times and then came to life, and then ran away with the second snake, but the three leaves remained on the ground.
The unfortunate young man who witnessed all this suddenly had an idea: he wondered whether the magic power of these leaves that revived dead snakes could also revive people. So he picked up the leaves and put some on his dead wife's mouth.
He took one piece and put the other two pieces on her eyes. As soon as he put the leaves in place, the blood began to flow in her veins, slowly rising up to her pale cheeks, making them blush again. Then
, she took a breath, opened her eyes, and said, "Ah, God, where am I?"
"You are with me, dear wife," he answered, and then told her all that had happened, and how he had revived her. He gave her some wine to drink, and some bread to eat, etc.
After she regained her energy, he helped her stand up and walked to the door of the tomb, knocking on the door and shouting.
After the guards heard this, they went to report to the king. The king himself opened the door of the tomb and found that they were healthy and energetic. He couldn't help but be overjoyed that the sad thing was finally over. The young man took out the three snake leaves and took them
He handed it to an attendant and said: "Keep it carefully for me and keep it with you at all times. God knows what kind of trouble we will encounter? Maybe we will need them!"
But his wife changed. After she came back from the dead, she seemed to have completely lost her love for her husband. After a while, the young man wanted to go to the sea to see his old father. After they got on the boat, she forgot about her
The husband showed deep love and loyalty to her, but he also forgot his life-saving grace to her, and became hatefully obsessed with the captain.
One day, when the young man fell asleep, she called the captain, and she held her husband's head. The captain grabbed his feet, and they threw him into the sea. After doing this shameful thing, she said: "
Let us go back now and say that he died on the road. I will praise you so much in front of my father and praise you that he will agree to marry me to you and make you the heir to the throne."
But the loyal attendant witnessed everything in secret. He untied a small boat from the big ship, got on it and looked for his master. He no longer cared about where the two bad guys were heading. He picked up the young man from the water.
He put the three snake leaves he carried on his eyes and mouth respectively, and luckily he was saved.
They rowed hard day and night, and the boat sailed quickly. As a result, they returned to the old king's palace before others. The old king was naturally surprised to see them coming back alone, and asked what happened. He heard that his daughter
After her abominable act, he said: "I don't believe she would do such a despicable thing, but the truth will be revealed soon." He ordered them to hide in a secret room and not let anyone see it.
Soon, the ship sailed back, and the shameless woman came to see her father with a sad face. The old king asked: "Why did you come back alone? Where is your husband?"
"Oh, dear father," she replied, "my heart is broken. My husband suddenly fell ill and died on the way. If this kind captain hadn't helped me, I would have been miserable! When my husband died, he
He is also there and can tell you everything."
The king said: "I want to bring the dead back to life!" Then he opened the secret room and called the master and servant out.
When the woman saw her husband, she knelt down as if she had been struck by thunder and begged for forgiveness. The king said, "I can't forgive you! He was willing to die with you and brought you back to life, but you took advantage of him while he slept.
You deserved it if you killed him immediately."
Then, she and her accomplices were put on a boat with a hole drilled in it. The boat was pushed out to sea and soon sank in the rough waves.