| Real story of Father Frost [message #171412] |
Mon, 19 January 2009 11:59  |
Jonah Falcon
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Registered: August 2003
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Jack Frost is a compilation of tales, but the core tale of Father
Frost goes like this:
A woman had a stepdaughter and a daughter of her own, and she hated
her stepdaughter. One day, she ordered her husband to take her out
into the winter fields and leave her there, and he obeyed. Father
Frost found her there, and she was polite and kind to him, and he gave
her a chest full of beautiful things and fine garments. When her
stepmother sent her father to bring back her body to be buried, he
went, and the dog said that she was coming back beautiful and happy,
and despite the bribe of a pancake, went on saying it.
When the stepmother saw what her stepdaughter had brought back, she
ordered her husband to bring her own daughter out to the fields. The
girl was rude to Father Frost, and he froze her to death. When her
husband went out to bring her back, the dog said that she would be
buried, and despite the bribe of a pancake, repeated it. When he
brought back the body, the old woman wept.
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Wow.
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