The Dead Mother
A husband and wife lived happily in a village. All of their
neighbors envied them, but the sight of them gave pleasure to honest folks. The
wife bore a son but died during child birth. The husband was very sad, but more
concerned about how he was going to raise the baby without the mother. He
decided to hire an old woman to look after the baby. The baby cried all day,
but slept peacefully throughout the night. One night, the woman heard the door
open and the baby went quiet. This puzzled everyone, so they devised a plan to
spy on the baby one night. That night, the same thing happened. They looked
into the room and it was the dead mother standing with the baby. At the first
light, the mother stood up and left with a sad look on her face.
The Treasure
There was a poor couple living in a kingdom. The old woman
died in the winter time. The old man asked everyone he knew to help him bury
the old woman, but everyone refused because they knew how poor he was. Even the
pope refused because the old man did not have the money for a funeral. The old
man said he could earn the money and pay the pope back with interest. The pope
denied, so the man decided he would have to dig the grave himself. When he was
digging he found a pot of gold. The old man used the gold to hold a proper
funeral. The pope asked the man how he got the money. The man told him, and the
pope became jealous. He thought of ways to trick the man into giving him the
money. The pope then killed a goat and put on the goat’s skin. He pretended to
be the devil and tricked the man into giving up the money out of fear of being
haunted by the devil. The pope took the money home, but when they tried to
remove the skin, they could not. He was now turned into a goat by God for
stealing the money.
Pot of Gold
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