Wednesday, December 31, 2008

The Straw Bull - A Ukrainian folk tale

Two farmers are very poor, and the wife asks her husband to make her a straw bull and cover it with tar. The husband does, and each day the wife takes the bull to the pasture as she spins her fabric, and each day, she dozes off. When she dozes off, the bull catches local troublemakers by taunting them to fix their wounds with his tar.
Each time a person is caught, the husband throws them in the cellar to skin them and make warm clothes with.
None of them want to be skinned, but how can they get out...?

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