Sea Demons and Fishermen

a long time ago, there was an experienced fisherman who went out to fish every day and sold all the fish he had, leaving only one.

he made so much money that he dug three wells next to the house and hid it.

then he got married and gave birth to three daughters, but he was still fishing like before.

but now he has to change his habits: if he strikes only one fish, eat himself; if he eats two, he eats with his wife; and if he eats three, he eats with his wife and daughters.

they only eat fish after cooking soup.

if they have five fish, everyone in his family is enough.

if the fish is more, sell the rest.

that's what this fisherman used to be.

time is running out, and the day has finally come: the fisherman's three wells are all loaded with money.

on one occasion, he went out to fish, but didn't hit anything and had to go home empty-handed.

the food at home was not his type because he was used to fish.

so he came to the beach again, but this time in vain, and when he came home he waited for dark.

it was almost dark and he went fishing on the beach, but it was nothing.

he didn't go to the beach for a long time.

once again, he came to the place where he used to fish, hoping to hit even one fish so that he could cook.

when the fisherman threw the net down and dragged it up, he felt heavy.

he was pleased to be careful to pull the net, and when it was halfway up, he saw a big fish hit.

but the fish is very strange: it speaks human language.

the fisherman tried to throw the net off, but he didn't dare to do it because he was afraid.

the monster suddenly says, "you come here to fish, i'll give you as much as you want.

but today you're wrong.

you want to fish, you get me.

i'm king of this sea.

you have three wells full of money, you have a good wife and even three daughters.

what are you missing? so, whether you like it or not, you have to die." the fisherman listened to them, shivered, fell down and lost consciousness.

and when he woke up and couldn't open his eyes, the monster said to him, "if you still want to live, make one of your daughters my wife.

go back and talk to them and come here tomorrow morning and answer me." the fisherman has just recovered a little strength and is on his way home.

on the way he cried in grief, all the way to his home.

the wife asked her husband why he cried and he told her everything that happened.

they cried together.

after crying enough, they called their eldest daughter and told her everything and asked her, "will you marry that monster to save my father's life?" i'm sorry.

but the daughter refused.

old people cry again, and their daughters cry with them.

then, after bringing the second daughter here and telling her everything, she asked: "will you marry that monster to save your old father's life?" but the daughter refused.

they..four people cried again.

finally they called the little girl and told her everything.

after listening, the little girl said, "i'm going to marry that monster so that my father can stay with us.

if i do not do so, my father will be killed, and we will all be orphans and widows.

our property will disappear as our father dies.” listen to this.

father is happy, just say it.

"at dawn, i'll go to the old place on the beach and tell him your answer." he ran to the beach early in the morning, but he had to open his mouth and tell the monster what his little daughter agreed to, and he heard a voice: "i know everything that happened in your house.

now you take this ring and give it to the daughter who agreed to marry me.

before next week, all the preparations for the marriage will be ready and i will come.” the fisherman came home and gave the ring to his little daughter, the fiancée of the terrible sea demon.

on sunday morning, the fisherman came to the beach to welcome his new son-in-law and to consult him.

he saw the sea demon, who gave him a big bag of bride's clothes, and said to him, "go home, get everything ready, and then everyone goes to the wedding, and i'll be right back." the fisherman came home, opened his bag and gave his clothes to the bride's women.

then we'll all go to the judge who married his daughter and the miracle.

he's waiting for his bride at the judge's.

but nobody can see the groom except the judge, the fiancée and her parents.

after a young man was given a certificate of marriage by a judge, everyone returned to the fishermen's house to celebrate the wedding.

the wedding was very lively, and people were knocking, screaming, laughing.

in the evening, the young husband asked him to take the bride, and they promised him.

when the devil brought his wife to the sea, he took her hand and went into the water.

they came to a small island, and the husband said to his wife, "ma'am, if you want anything, say it; if not, i will go to the sea for a while.

if you want anything, mix the sea with this stick, my servants will come to you, and they will fulfil all your wishes.” and the wife said, "my husband, i want to tell you, i'm hungry." in a moment, the husband touched his wife's neck, and she fell strangely and fell asleep.

the wife fell asleep, the seaman took the knife, cut her belly open, stuffed her stomach with some delicious meat, and he sewd her belly like before.

and when he finished, he woke his wife up and asked her, "well, ma'am, are you still hungry?" and then he said to her, "my wife, i'll always treat you well, as long as you don't break my ban, because if you break it, we'll never see each other again.

my prohibition is that from now on you cannot cry, and that tears will keep us apart forever, even if a tear falls from your eyes, we will never see each other again.” they live like thismany days.

on one occasion, he said to his wife, "ma'am, your father is very sick, but i can't let you go to your parents because you'll break my ban." one day, the devil told his wife that her father was dead.

he was carrying funeral supplies, holding his wife ' s hand and floating with her in a place where there was a road to her parents ' home.

they were here to say goodbye, and he warned his wife not to forget the ban.

when the woman returned to her parents' home, she saw her father dead and people were preparing his funeral.

when relatives saw her, they were surprised by her extraordinary beauty.

especially when she's talking.

and they were surprised that she no longer knew that she was hungry.

relatives envy her and want to be like her.

after his father's burial, the wife of the sea demon left her mother and sister a great deal of money as a gift, and she said goodbye to them and went to the seaside.

she went to the sea, swung the water with a stick, and jumped out of the water a few servants and carried her to her husband.

time passed quickly, and one day the devil told his wife that her mother was dead.

this time the husband sent his wife back to her parents' house and sent two servants with her to help dig the grave.

when i saw my mother dead, the wife tried not to cry — one in the cemetery and the other in front of relatives.

after the funeral, she wanted to return to her husband soon, but relatives stopped her and started to count her: “you are an ungrateful man.

you don't cry if your father dies, and now you don't feel sad if your mother dies." listening to these words, the wife of the sea demon cried.

the first tear had just fallen out of her eyes, and in a moment her gorgeous clothes had disappeared, her servants had disappeared and she was starving.

you know she hasn't eaten in four years.

the wife of the sea demon wept, and relatives comforted her when they thought she was a crying and dying mother.

actually she cried because she was too hungry.

so she went back to her sister's house and asked them to give her something to eat, but they rejected her, and said, "the food is also stored by her father, but you treated him ungratefully.

so you're not getting anything now.

we'll split all the money." they split three wells, one and a half for each, and their sister gave nothing.

here comes the wife of the sea demon.

but no matter how she cried, no matter how much she used a stick to stir up the water, it was futile.

in the end, she wanted to jump into the sea and die in order to get rid of everything.

but when she wanted to meet her wish, she suddenly heard her husband's voice: “you will not die in the sea, because you are the queen of the sea, and it is better to follow my first order:

to the dark forest, to find a big, thick tree, to try to climb to the top of the tree, to hide it.

when a prince of a country comes to rest under a tree after he has hunted, you cry so hard that the tears fall upon him that separate us, but you can find another husband happy.” and then the young woman did what he ordered, and she came to a dark, dark and darkin the woods, where a big tree is found, climbs to the top of the tree and hides.

suddenly she saw the prince of this country coming under this tree after hunting with his soldiers and servants.

when they lie down and rest, women start to cry quietly.

her tears drop on young people.

he was strange at first, but then looked up and saw someone in the middle of the tree.

the man was crying, and the tears fell.

then the prince ordered a slave to climb up to see if he was really human.

the slave didn't climb to the top of the tree and came down to tell his master that there were people there and she was a beautiful woman.

"ma'am, ma'am, are you a man or a devil?" and she said, "i'm like you." "if you're human, come down from the tree and tell me how you got there." the woman came down from the tree and the young man, as soon as he saw her, expressed his willingness to marry her.

she agreed, they went to the palace together.

very close to the city, the prince sent a servant to bring his wife clothes and told his father that he had decided to get married and asked for the city to be decorated so that the wedding could take place.

as soon as the king heard the news, he gave his clothes to his servants and ordered the city to be decorated.

many people have come to the main road to welcome the bride and groom.

they entered the city, entered the palace, and the king asked his son who the woman was.

son told him everything.

“my son,” the king replied, “it is not appropriate for us to marry a woman we have encountered.

if you think about it, what will you say to your father?" but he didn't listen to his father and he got married.

the prince and his wife live in peace and harmony.

one time, the prince went to a meeting, when the devil came to his wife and said to her, "ma'am, you are now the prince's wife, although you do not want to see me, but you know, this is the result of my help.

now you must carry out another and the last of my orders.

one day it'll rain and lightning will thunder, but don't be afraid.

i'm dead: you know we're all living animals.

you must come to the seaside and bury me under the bed in your bedroom.

every creature will die one day.

don't forget, you have to come! on the day of the prince's meeting, the king secretly sent thirty-seven servants to his son's room, ordering them to monitor what his daughter-in-law was doing, because the king did not believe that she was a person but a demon.

the day when the sea demon died, as he predicted, had passed by with heavy rain and lightning.

when a woman remembered what the seaman said to her, she took off her gorgeous clothes and put on her regular clothes.

then he took a slave named ulleti and left for the sea.

they came to the seaside and found the body of the sea demon.

they picked him up and carried him to the bedroom.

the prince's wife moved the bed with the slaves(b) a large pit, where the body of the sea demons is put in, covered with earth, and then the bed is put back to its original place.

the master gave the slave a lot of money and he promised to keep it a secret.

however, thirty-seven kings sent their servants to their sons' rooms to see everything, and they didn't miss a moment, and they quickly reported it to the king because they knew that if they didn't tell the truth, they would lose their heads.

after hearing their report, the king for one minute called his son and said to him with anger: “you do not listen to me, my son, i once told you that this woman is not a man, but a demon.

it's not too late to listen to me.

in the storm, your wife and her servant ulleti arrived at the seaside, and they brought a dead body...

- who, i don't know, buried it under the bed in your bedroom.

what do you think now?"