17 July, 2011
The Tale of Three Brothers
"There was once three brothers who traveled on a deserted road at dusk and tortuous. After a while, the brothers reached a river too deep to pass on foot and too dangerous to swim across. The brothers, but were adept at magic, and then simply waved their wands and made a bridge appear across the treacherous waters. They were halfway across the bridge when they found their path blocked by a hooded figure. It was Death.
And Death spoke to them. He was angry at being robbed of three new victims, as usual was the drowning in the river travelers. But Death was cunning. He pretended to congratulate the three brothers upon their magic, and said each would win a prize for being smart enough to elude her.
Then the older brother, who was a combative man, asked for a wand more powerful than all that existed: a wand that always win all the duels, a wand worthy of a wizard who had conquered Death! So Death crossed the bridge, went to an elder tree on the bank of the river, fashioned a wand from a branch of the tree and handed it to the older brother.
Then the second brother, who was an arrogant man, decided to humiliate Death still further and asked the power to restore life to those she had taken. So Death picked up a stone from the riverbank and gave it to the second brother, telling him that the stone had the power to resurrect the dead.
Then Death asked the third and youngest brother, what he wanted. The younger brother was the humblest and also the wisest of the brothers, and did not trust Death. He then asked something that would allow him to leave that place without being followed by Death. And Death, most unwillingly, handed him his own Cloak of Invisibility.
Then Death stood to one side and allowed the three brothers went their way and that's what they did, commenting, with astonishment, adventure they had had and admiring Death's gifts.
In due course the brothers separated, each going his fate. The first brother traveled a week or more, and reaching a distant village, sought fellow wizard with whom he had a quarrel. Armed with the Elder Wand as his weapon, he could not fail to win the duel that followed. Leaving the enemy dead on the floor, the older brother went to an inn, where he boasted loudly of the powerful wand he had snatched from Death himself, and that made him invencível.Na same night, another wizard crept upon the oldest brother as he slept in his bed, drunk with wine. The thief took the wand and, for the measure, slit the neck to the older brother. And so Death took the older brother.
However, the second brother journeyed to his home where he lived alone. Then took the stone that had the power to resurrect the dead and turned it thrice in his hand. To his surprise and satisfaction, the figure of the girl they had hoped to marry before his untimely death, appeared before him instantly. However, she was sad and cold, separated from him as by a veil. Although he returned to the mortal world, his place was not there, and she suffered. Finally, the second brother, mad with longing, killed himself in order to truly join her. And so Death took the second brother.
Death While looking for the third brother for many years, could never find it. Only when it reached an advanced age is the younger brother took, finally, the Cloak of Invisibility and gave it to his son. And then he greeted Death as an old friend and went with her willingly, and as equals, they departed this life. "
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