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08 - The Magic Mirror

"The Magic Mirror"
A fairy tale from Aleksandr Afanas'ev's collection
Translated by Seth Graham
[Source: "Volshebnoe zerkal'tse" ( 211). Narodnye russkie skazki A.N. Afanas'eva. 3 vols.
Moscow: GIKhL, 1957. Vol. 2. 126-33.]
In a certain kingdom, in a certain land, there lived a widowed merchant. He had a son, a
daughter, and a brother. One day the merchant was getting ready to sail to foreign lands to sell
various goods. He planned to take his son with him and leave his daughter at home. Before
leaving, he summoned his brother and said to him: "I leave my entire household in your hands,
dear brother, and I beg you to look after my daughter. Teach her to read and write, and don't let
her misbehave!" Then the merchant bid his brother and his daughter farewell and set off on his
journey. The merchant's daughter was already of age and possessed such indescribable beauty
that you could not find her equal if you walked around the whole world! Her uncle began to
have unclean thoughts that would not give him peace day or night. He made advances toward
the maiden, telling her, "You'll either sin with me or you won't live on this earth! I'll kill you and
then run away myself!..."
The girl ran towards the bathhouse with her uncle on her heels, and when she got there
she grabbed a basin full of boiling water and soaked him from head to toe. He was laid up for
three weeks and almost didn't recover. A terrible hatred gnawed at his heart and he began to
think of ways he could repay the trick with one of his own. He thought and thought, and finally
wrote his brother a letter: your daughter is up to no good, she gets around, never sleeps at home,
and doesn't listen to me. The merchant received the letter, read it, and became very angry. He
told his son, "Your sister is shaming the whole family! She deserves no mercy: I want you to go
home this very minute and chop the incorrigible girl into little bits and bring me her heart on this
knife. Then our family name won't be the laughing stock of good people!"
The son took the sharp knife and headed for home. He arrived in his hometown in secret,
without anyone knowing, and began to investigate: how was the merchant's daughter really
living? Everyone unanimously praised her as a quiet, modest, god-fearing, obedient girl.
Having heard all this, he went to see his sister. She was overjoyed and welcomed him with hugs
and kisses: "Dear brother! How did the Lord bring you this way? How is our dear father?" "Oh,
dear sister, don't be so quick to rejoice. My homecoming is not a happy one: father sent me with
orders to chop your pale body into little pieces and bring him your heart on this knife."
The sister burst into tears. "My God," she said, "why such cruelty?" "I'll tell you why!"
said her brother, and told her about their uncle's letter. "Oh, brother, I haven't done anything
wrong!" The merchant's son listened as she told him what had happened, and then he said,
"Don't cry, little sister! I know that you're not at fault, and even though father told me not to
accept any excuses, I still won't punish you. Better if you pack your things, leave our father's
house, and go wherever your eyes lead you. God won't abandon you!" The merchant's daughter
didn't think about it for very long. She packed for her journey, bid farewell to her brother, and
left. Where to, even she did not know. Meanwhile her brother killed a stray dog, cut out its
heart, stuck it onto the end of the sharp knife, and took it to his father. As he handed over the
dog's heart he said, "There, I've fulfilled your parental command and executed my sister."
"Served her right," replied his father, "a dog like her deserved a dog's death!"
For a long time or a short time the beautiful maiden wandered the wide world, and finally
she went into a thick forest. The trees were so tall she could barely see the sky. She walked
through the forest and suddenly emerged into a large clearing. In the clearing was a white palace
made of stone surrounded by an iron fence. "I'll pay a visit to that palace," thought the girl, "not
everyone is mean, after all, so it should be all right." She entered the palace, but didn't see a
human soul in the halls. She was just about to turn back when suddenly two mighty bogatyrs
[Russian knights of lore] galloped into the courtyard and entered the palace. They saw the
maiden and said, "Hello, beauty!" "Hello, honorable knights!" "Look, brother," one of the
bogatyrs said to the other, "we were bemoaning the fact that we had nobody to look after things
at home, and God sent us a little sister." The bogatyrs let the merchant's daughter live with them,
called her their sister, gave her the keys to the palace, and made her the mistress of the whole
place. Then they took out their

This is my favourite piece of jewellery - it's called a "crossover ring" or a "Russian wedding ring".

It's 3 intertwined rings, one ring rose gold, another white gold, and the third yellow gold.

When I graduated from uni, my parents were generous enough to give me money to finish paying off my HECS debt. There was a little left over, so they told me to go buy a piece of jewellery for myself. I chose to have this ring made for me. My mum has a similar one, that she has worn on her right ring finger since she was my age, and I've always loved it, so I thought I'd try to start up a little family tradition!

I have developed a habit of twirling this ring up and down my finger when sitting in super boring super long meetings - everyone in my team comments on it!

Thanks to @Alegrya for today's t365 idea =)

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