Princess Maria the Woodman
once upon a time there was a king and a queen who had a very beautiful daughter named maria.
when the girl was 15, her mother had an incurable disease.
the king cried to his wife and vowed never to marry again, but the queen said: “dear, you are young and you have to raise your daughter.
i'll leave you this ring.
which girl's finger is on it and you must marry her.” after the mourning period, the king began to find new men.
many girls came to try on the ring, but all went back because some were too loose and others too tight.
"that means i shouldn't be getting married right away," the king said, "well, this is not going to happen for now." he left the ring aside.
one day, maria looked around and suddenly saw the ring in a drawer.
she wears her finger, but she can't go back.
"what would dad say in this case?" maria was overwhelmed.
she found a black cloth tied to the ring.
when her father found the black cloth on her finger, he asked, "boy, what's wrong?" but a few days later, her father decided to take a look at her finger and unbutton the black cloth and see the ring." ah, dear daughter, he screamed, "you'll be my wife." father said so, and maria was so surprised that she ran to the nanny and hid it and told her about it.
"if he brings this up again, the nanny says, "put it down, but you ask him for a long skirt for the bride; this long skirt is green, with all the flowers on it.
actually, there is no such dress, but there's good reason for you to reject him.” upon hearing of this condition, the king called a faithful servant, gave him a bag of gold and a horse, and sent him to the world to look for a green dress with flowers of all kinds.
he's been around for six months and he can't see a dress like that.
finally, he came to a town where the jews lived and asked a merchant: “do you have such silk?” he told jewish businessmen.
"do you ask me, what is that?" he said, "i have something much better than what you want." so, the king gave his daughter what she wanted.
maria was crying and running to the nanny.
"don't cry, son.
and ask him for another wedding dress: a sea blue with all kinds of fish embroidered with gold wire.” a few months later, the servants of the state had bought such skirts from the city where the jews lived.
as a result, the nanny gave maria another idea, asking her to wear a wedding dress far more gorgeous than those two dresses; the dress should be transparent, and it should be able to display the patterns of the sun and the battle of stars on the dress.
so the king's servant went out for the third time.
six months later, the dress was found.
"now, the king says, "there's not much time left, son.
a week later we get married.
we're ready for the wedding.
in the meantime, however, the nanny had asked for a wooden dress for the girl.
she was wrapped in wood from head to toe so she could drift through the sea.
on the day of the marriage, maria told her father that she was going to take a shower.
she caught two pigeons in advance, tied with a rope and placed one in a bucket and the other outside.
one of the pigeons out there struggled to escape, and he held the pigeon in the bucket; so the pigeons in the bucket beat their wings so hard, they made the water so loud, it was like someone was taking a bath.
maria took the plane to put on her wooden clothes, took her two long skirts and one dress and escaped quietly.
as maria's bathing room has been she struts, walks on the sea, walks, ends up in a place where a king's son and several fishermen fish. seeing a wooded girl walking on the water, the prince said, "i've never seen a fish like this before, we'll take a look at it." he dropped the net, put her on the net and dragged her to shore. "who are you? from where?" asked the princes and the fishermen. maria: "p" i'm maria, a wood man from a faraway country; a craftsman carved me and let me go on land." "what would you do?" "do anything." the son of the national worker took her back to the palace and let her play the goose. the news of a goose-skinned wood girl in the palace was agitated, and people came from all sides, watching her walk behind the geese, in the grass and in the ponds, and watching her move freely on the water. however, every sunday when no one comes to watch, maria takes off her wooden clothes and wears her dark, long hair on her shoulder; she climbs up a tree and combs her hair, and a group of geese she feeds sings around the tree: 'p', 'gah, 'gah, 'gah, 'gah, 'gah, 'gah, 'gah, 'gah, 'gah, 'gah, 'gah, 'gah, 'gah, 'gah, 'gah, 'gah, 'gah, 'gah, 'gah, 'gah! every evening, the woodman maria returned to the palace with a basket of goose eggs. one evening, she found out that the king ' s son was planning to go to the ball and made fun of him. prince, where are you going? maria went back to her place, dressed in a green dress with all the flowers in the world, and went to the ball alone. there, this strange girl became the queen of the ball, and no one saw her dress. the king's son invited her to dance and asked her what her name was, where she came from. maria said, "i'm countess svobot." the prince has never heard of such a nameno one else knew the lady. she has no problem but the name “swabt”. the king ' s son was very fond of her and gave her a blonde as a gift. she left her hair clip on her hair and left the ball in a hurry laughing. the king's son ordered the servants to keep an eye on her and see where she went. but maria threw a gold town behind her back, and the servants stopped to pick it up and quarreled with each other. the prince had hope for the girl, but was disappointed and upset. the following evening, he was about to go to the ball, when maria came back from outside with a basket of goose eggs, and she said, “your highness, are you going to dance tonight?” “don't be a pain in the ass. i'm so sick of it!" "take me?" the king's son got mad and grabbed a little shovel from the stove and hit her. maria went back to her place, put on a sea blue dress with gold wired with all kinds of fish and went to the ball. once again, the king's son danced with her with joy. "this time you're going to tell me who you really are?" after that, maria never again said that the king ' s son had given her a diamond ring. maria left the ball in haste after wearing the ring, as she did the previous night, again using sakin city to get rid of the following servant. the prince loved the girl even more. the next night, the prince had no heart to play with maria the woodman. he was in the middle of a horse, and maria came to him and asked to take her to dance, and he immediately drew on her back with a rigid rope. at the dance, the prince met the young girl, who was wearing a transparent dress that showed the sun and skyscrapers, which was more beautiful than the dress she had worn the previous two nights. the girl told him she was princess sworion. the prince gave the girl a picture stamp with his portrait. the servants still couldn't keep an eye on the girl that night. the king's son is sick, eating, tea and doctors are helpless. his mother kept telling him to eat. one day, the prince said to his mother, "well, i'd like a baker. mom, you have to do it yourself." the queen is in the kitchen, where maria the woodman is. she said, “your majesty. leave this to me. i'm happy to help you." after that, she started to meet and bake. the king's son bit a pie. it tastes good. he was just about to say a word of gratitude to his mother, when he suddenly bit a hard thing, a hair clip, the one he gave to the beautiful girl. "mom, who baked the pie?" "i, what's wrong?" "no, not you." tell me the truth, who baked it? the prince immediately told her to make another one. when maria the woodman delivered the second pie, the prince found his diamond ring in it. "maria the woodman must knowthe case of that beautiful strange girl." prince wants to. he ordered maria to make a third pie. when the prince found the large picture of his picture in the pie, he jumped out of his bed and headed for the geese shed. when he got there, he found all the geese singing around a tree: maria told the prince what happened. they were married and lived happily ever after。