Segnius Irritant, Or Eight Primitive Folk-Lore Stories
The book Segnius Irritant, Or Eight Primitive Folk-Lore Stories was written by author Erben, Karel Jaromír, 1811-1870 Here you can read free online of Segnius Irritant, Or Eight Primitive Folk-Lore Stories book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Segnius Irritant, Or Eight Primitive Folk-Lore Stories a good or bad book?
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The first is a Venetian one called La Merda, which is an allegory of the rise of Venice from the slime and mud of the Lagoons. Tlie Sun-Horse. 61 Three fairies, passing over a meadow, find a beautiful piece of dung. They decide to turn it into a beautiful girl with a golden ring on her finger, who, so long as she wears this ring, is fated to say nothing but " Dung, dung, dung." The ring, transferred to another person, carries the peculiarity with it. A prince passes and sees the beautiful girl,... and in spite of her conversational defects takes her home and marries her. (The incident of the Virgin Mary Godmother, The Tinkling Iiinden, Bda la mare mapiu bela la fia, and hundreds of others.) One day they .■go to mass. After mass there is a collection and a sermon. The girl, having forgotten her purse, puts the gold ring in the collector's alms-salver. The preacher, seeing a fine gold ring in the salver, beckons the collector to bring it him, puts it on his finger and begins his sermon: "Dearly beloved brethren.
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