Demon and shepherd

Once upon a time, in ancient times, there was a lord that the people of the village had been tired of his oppression but said nothing. This lord had so many
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author: علی اکبر مظاهری
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Demon and shepherd
Demon and shepherd

Translator: Mohammad Ali Asefipoor
Source: rasekhoon.net


 

Once upon a time, in ancient times, there was a lord that the people of the village had been tired of his oppression but said nothing. This lord had so many sheep and there were also two brothers who worked as shepherds of the lord. These two brothers were clever and very alert. One of them grazed ewe flock and the other one grazed goats. When the shepherd bought the flock home, the lord went to inspect the sheep. If one of them had become ill of if legs of an animal were broken, he would hit the shepherd so violently. He counted the sheep one by one and would take probable lose from poor shepherd. Whatever they told him that flock could not be deathless he did not consent. If a shepherd escaped and concealed himself, the lord would enmeshed him in any way and not only would beat him but also would charge him for damage.

One day the two brothers took the flocks to plain. Some wolfs attacked the flock of ewe and tore some ewes. The other brother took his stick and went to help his brother and so left the goats shepherd-less. Goats that had heard the sound of wolf fled for their lives and were lost at corners of the desert. Goats that wanted to save their lives fearing of the wolves, were caught by hyenas. In this manner some ewes and the flock of goats were awarded to wolves and hyenas.
When the brothers realized what happened to them, sat and thought and concluded that the lord was not a man who got off them in this story. If a goat's leg was broken, he would beat them by stick that they would return their homes wounded and bloody. What happened now that a flock completely destroyed? One of the brothers who were more clever said the other one to went and fill the travel bags by soft soil. That brother fetched two bags of soil and the other brother opened some bells from the carcasses' necks and they went toward the village. As soon as they reached near the village, one of the brothers sprayed the soil into air and the other one shook the bells. The lord was standing near the shepherds' house, so when he saw the dust and heard the sound of the bells, no longer remained waited that the flock reach there and went to his home.
The shepherds whose trick was successful went home and ate dinner. They waited until midnight when no one was in alleys. Then they took a water skin of yogurt from the corridor and using a long hair rope got out of home and while their backs was toward the village they went toward the desert. They went and went until they reached a castle. The door of castle was open. They went into it and closed the door. The smaller brother looked around and said that the castle be belonged to Demon and said if it came, their lives would be in danger. But the older brother said him not to be worried and that he knew what to do with Demon.
The brothers closed the door and immediately went up to the roof and remained waiting Demon to arrive. The night was ending that Demon reached there and saw the door of its castle was closed. It shouted who had come to its castle. The brother made their voices thick and answered: "We are human beings who have come here." Demon got angry and said now the courage of human being had reached such an extent to come to the castle of Demon and to close its door either. Then it shouted: "Immediately open the door." The brothers did not agree. Demon said that it would climb the wall and it knew what to do with them. The brothers remained on their speech and wanted it to climb if it was able to do so. Demon shouted that seemingly they did not know Demon and had not seen the hair oh Demon yet. It said this and pulled a hair strand of itself and threw onto the roof. The brothers saw that even a hair stand of it was so heavy. The younger brother who was frightened said it was better to open the door of the castle hoping Demon to forgive them. The older brother disagreed and wanted him not to talk anything and only watch. Then he mock Demon and said: "What a small hair! We thought it must be bigger than this. But certainly Demon has not seen the hair of human being yet." He said this and fell down the hair rope that was very heavy. The cramp for firewood drag, fastened to the rope, collided with the ground and made a sound. Dave took the rope and was surprised of its bigness and weight. But hid its surprise and said they had not seen the spittle of Demon yet. It cleared its chest and spitted out a bowl - sized spittle onto the roof. The older brother mocked it and said: "Is this just the spittle of Demon?!" He said this and dragged his knife from his waist and tore the water skin of yogurt and dropped down all the yogurt. Demon was really frightened but decided to go up. So it rotated the hair rope and threw it upwards such that the cramp stuck to the teeth of the castle. When the rope was tied up, it took it and began climbing. It was beating its feet on the wall as climbing. As it reached close to the teeth of the castle the younger brother fearfully said: "It is reaching here!" The older brother asked him not to be frightened and bring the rolling pin of their mother. As Dave heard the name of rolling pin was frightened and
its arms and legs were loosened and fell down from over the wall that was ten or twelve cubits tall died immediately.
The brothers who saw the castle ownerless seized it and lived there happily in so many years.

/J

 


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