Swiss folk story: the story of pixie paper

once upon a time, there was a very rich duke who loved to travel all his life.

he leaped over the mountains, drifted over the sea, and travelled to so many countries.

every place he goes, he has to have a good time.

after a few years, he finally spent all his property and no money.

he used to be close to him, eating his relatives and friends, and now he's gone away.

as a result, the duke had to make money from his own work.

one night, the duke walked in a dense forest and he could not find a place to stay.

when he was in a hurry, he suddenly found a small hut in the bush not far ahead.

so he walked in.

there's only one corner with a big box in it.

"what's in this box?" the duke thought, "maybe find a piece of bread! my stomach is already hungry." so he opened the box.

it was a smaller one, and he opened the second one, but it's weird, it's a smaller one! he just opened one by one, and the case was getting smaller.

in the end, the duke finally took out the last tiny box.

he thought it must be gold or something valuable.

but open it, there's nothing in it, just a little note with a few words.

the duke had a sad little note and read a few words: "come on, my servant!" he had just said that, and suddenly he heard the sound of someone saying, "what do you say, my lord?" the duke looked around and there was no one in the hut.

he found it strange, and said again, "come on, my servant!" and then he heard the loud words, "what do you say, my lord?" at that moment, a table appeared in the middle of the hut with the best meals and wine.

so the duke sat down at the table without any courtesy, and quickly ate the wine and fed his belly.

and then he wanted to go to sleep, and he took out the pixie, and he said, "come on, my servant!" at that time, a bed like the emperor's dragon bed appeared in the hut.

the duke lays down in his bed with pixie paper in his hand, and goes, "come on, my servant!" as soon as the duke had finished, he realized that he was already lying in a very luxurious room.

the room contains a variety of most valuable and beautiful displays.

i'm sorryThe next morning, the Duke woke up.

He walked in his palace.

The infinity of the room, and the plentiful displays, surprised him.

Even more surprising is the fact that when he walked out of the palace and looked around, the forest was gone, and only around was a beautiful garden.

There are trees of green shades and flowers of colour.

Not far from the past, there was also a clear river.

And the Duke came out with a pixie, and he said, "Come on, my servant!" "What do you say, my lord?" "You gave me such a magnificent palace, but I can't see a servant in it." Send them, too!" He said, "As soon as the palace appeared, many nobles and beautiful wives dressed in fine clothes.

The servants are also running.

On a hill across the river there is another palace much worse than it.

This is the king's palace.

This morning, the King looked out the window and found a marble palace on the other side of the river.

The King could not believe that he had wiped his eyes and looked at them, and that the other side of the river was still flaunting that beautiful palace shining in the sun.

Then the king called all his servants, and asked them, “Do you see the palace across the river?” “See, Your Majesty!” The servants answered.

“Who dared to build such a palace on my land? And it was better than mine!” The servants bowed and replied, “We do not know, Your Majesty!” So the king called his general and ordered, “You must immediately lead all the cavalry and infantry to destroy the palace!” The army was assembled immediately.

Engineers set the bridge.

With the sound of military numbers and drums of war, the army left.

The Duke saw the coming army, heard the sound of military music, and said, "Come on, my servant!" "What do you say, my lord?" "Send me some infantry and cavalry, and a cannon." The number is five times greater than the number of kings.” After a while, the Duke looked out of the window and saw that countless armies had already reached the King's army.

The king's team is afraid to stand up.

The Duke went to the king's general in his gold cloak and said, "What are you doing in my land?" The general said it was the King who sent them to destroy the new palace, because it had been built without his permission.

The Duke smiled, and said, "How many armies do you see?" But I can do a hundred times more.

I think we should make friends!” This proposal is exactly what the General wants.

So the Duke invited all the king's officers to his palace, and the soldiers invited them to the courtyard and to the square in front of the door, to pour wine and treatthey are.

the king's officers and soldiers have been constantly toasting the heroic duke and his army.

they also talked about the king having a very beautiful daughter.

“ah, if you marry her, it's a natural pair!” the general said to the duke, “just the princess is very arrogant, and no man will let her see it.” soon, the sound of the sound of the departure was sounded.

the soldiers of the king called for “ long live”, paid tribute to the duke and thanked him for his hospitality, who also asked the general to convey to him his regards.

and when he left the duke alone, he took out the pixie, and said, "come on, my servant!" "what do you say, my lord?" "when the king's daughter falls asleep, you bring her here." but she must be returned to the palace before she wakes up.” at night, the duke saw the princess.

she's so beautiful, the duke likes her very much.

later the invisible servants returned the sleeping princess to her own palace.

the next morning, the king rose up and looked out the window, and he was so angry that the palace was still shining in the sun.

he then immediately called the general and called him as to why he had not destroyed the palace.

however, the general reported to the king that he could not beat the duke because his army was 100 times larger.

"your majesty, isn't it nice to have a friend with him?" the general suggested.

the king took his crown off, stung his head and said, "is this man a fairy?" she was excited to tell her father about a strange dream she had last night, in which she met a very great hero in a gold cloak.

finally, she said, "i'm going to marry him!" suddenly, the sound of military music came.

the duke in the gold cloak led his army into the palace.

the king received him with kindness.

the duke and the princess sit together and they're in love.

the duke immediately asked the king to marry the princess.

but the king said, "look at your palace first." the night was then busy with the invisible servant because the king must see the duke's luxuriousness and wealth.

the king came with his men to the duke's palace.

he visited the palace and the garden.

everything here is luxurious, and he is astonished.

the next day, the duke and the princess married.

days passed.

and one night, the duke heard the voice of someone speaking to him: "my lord, now you're satisfied?" "what can you thank me for, my lord?" "my request is very low, please give me that little note -- you don't need it." "well, if that's what you're asking, take it.

i've got a few words on itback off." the invisible servant said, "then put the note on the table by the bed." the duke immediately disappeared when he put the pixie on the table.

the duke then had dinner with his wife and slept.

at dawn, the duke was awakened and his teeth were frozen and he fought.

when he looked around, he found himself naked.

the palace was gone, so they slept in that empty hut with boxes.

the duke cried out, "come on, my servant! come on, my servant!" however, it was completely futile to hear any reply.

the princess was still dressed, but she was as painful as the duke.

there's nothing left! the duke told the princess everything and told her to go back to her father, but the princess refused.

she loved him very much, and although the duke was now a poor man, she was still living with him.

this morning, the king rose out of the window and found the magnificent palace missing and only a forest.

so the king immediately called all his servants, and said, "do you see the palace across the coast?" they all bend down, head down, and finally answer, "no palace." the king immediately took his entourage, crossed the river and entered the forest.

a small hut was found in the former palace and garden.

the king entered the hut and saw his naked son-in-law and her crying daughter.

“what happened here?” asked the tired king.

however, before the duke could provide a detailed answer, the angry king ordered that the poor duke be hanged here immediately.

all the princess's cry and tears cannot make the king angry.

"this bad man must die right away!" the king shouted with a loud voice.

the waiters quickly erected a gallow near the hut.

the noose's on the duke's neck.

at that time, however, the princess secretly handed over a gold ring to the executioner, begging him not to hang the duke, and at night to get rid of him and the princess was ready to flee with him to a foreign country.

and the executioner answered, and he put the rope under the duke's arms and hung him on the gallows.

from a distance, the king saw the duke hanging on the gallows and took his entourage home.

the duke hanging on the gallows thought he had done something stupid and should not return the pixie to the invisible servant.

the sun slowly fell behind the trees.

at that point, the duke suddenly heard a loud horse.

he looked down and saw seven wagons coming in, filled with old shoes.

the last one was a little old man in a gray dress, with a little red hat on his head, with his ugly face and a pair of shiny little eyes.

at the gallows, he looked at the duke and laughed.

"you're a real oneBig fool, that's why he's hanging here!" He says, "You see, I've worn seven cars to do your job.

How about that? You want to get the pixie back, fool?" The little old man deliberately delivered the pixie to the hanging Duke's nose.

As soon as the Duke reached out, he took away the pixie paper in the hands of the little old man.

All of a sudden, the carriage and the old man were gone, and they just said, "What do you say, my lord?" At this moment, the palace, the garden, the army and so on appeared.

- Everything goes back to what it used to be。