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EP 139: Georgia- Gulambara and Sulambara (Marjory Wardrop 1894) · Sandman Stories Presents

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  Welcome back, listeners to Sandman stories, presents.
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  A folklore podcast where I read you to sleep or until the next
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  door, I'm your host. Dustin.
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  And today we're doing something a little bit special.
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  I'm recording, this Georgian tale from my friend, Roberto of
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  the history of Georgia podcast, I know he will be forgiving of
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  my pronunciations and I hope you will be as well in this story.
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  A blind King has to rely on his son in order to return his site
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  to him. But first, the sun needs to
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  solve some riddles. Okay, let's begin.
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  Gulam Bara and swollen Barra. There was, and there was not at
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  all. There was a blind Monarch, all
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  the doctors in the Kingdom had been applied to, but the king
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  could not be cured. At last one, doctor said in a
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  certain C is a fish as red as blood.
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  If this is caught killed and it's blood sprinkled on your
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  eyes, it may do good, the light will come back into your eyes if
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  not there can be no other cure for you.
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  Then the king assembled every fisherman in his realm and
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  commanded go. Wherever it may be or may not be
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  catch. Such a fishes.
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  This and I shall give you a rich reward.
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  Some time passed by an old fisherman caught just such a
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  crimson fish and took it to the king.
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  The king was asleep and they did not dare to wake him.
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  So they put the fish into a basin full of water.
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  Just then his son returned from his lessons.
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  He saw the blood, red fish swimming in the Basin, he took
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  it up in his hands, caressed. It and said, what do you want
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  with the pretty fish in the Basin?
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  They said to him, this is good for your father.
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  It must be killed. It's blood.
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  Sprinkled on his eyes. And he will regain his sight.
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  But isn't it? A sin to kill it as The Prince
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  and he took the fish out to a stream in the meadow and gave it
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  freedom. A little while.
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  After the king of woke his vizier said to him an old
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  fisherman, brought you a blood red fish but your son would just
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  returned from his lessons. Let It Go.
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  The King was very angry and sent his son from the house.
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  Go. Hence, I shall be well when you
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  are no longer Remembered in the Kingdom with my eyes, I cannot
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  look upon you but never again, let me hear your unpleasant
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  voice. The boy grieved Rose and went
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  away. He went and he went and he knew
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  not where he went? On the way he saw stream, he was
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  weary and sat down to rest on the bank.
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  Behold a boy of his own age, came out of the water.
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  He came to the prince greeted him and said, when did you come
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  here? And what troubles, you The
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  prince went to him and told him all that had happened.
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  His new acquaintance said, I'm also discontented with my lot.
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  So, let us become brothers and live together.
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  The prince agreed and they went on their way.
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  They traveled on some distance when they came to a town and
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  they dwelt there. On the next day.
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  Dawned his adopted brother said to the prince stay at home and
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  do not go out of doors. Lest they eat you for such is
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  the custom here. The prince promised and from
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  morning until night. He sat indoors, the other boy
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  was away in the town all day at Twilight.
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  When he came home, he had a handkerchief full of provisions.
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  Several days slip by the prince stayed in all day.
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  And his brother brought food and drink at last.
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  The prince said to himself, this is shameful.
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  My adopted brother goes out and brings him food and drink.
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  Why do I not do something when an idol?
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  Fellow I am, I will go and do something.
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  And so it happened that one day. King's son went into the town,
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  he wandered here and there and in one place saw his brother who
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  was sitting cross-legged on the ground at his feet was stretched
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  a pocket-handkerchief. In his hand, he held a chunga RI
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  a stringed instrument, which he played and he chanted to it with
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  a sweet voice, whoever passed by placed money in the
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  handkerchief, the King's son listened and listened and said
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  No, this must not be this is not my business so he turned and
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  went back. Near there.
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  He saw Tower outside was a wall and on the top or men's heads
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  arranged in rows, some were quite shriveled up.
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  Some had an unpleasant odor of Decay and some had just been
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  placed there. He looked and looked and could
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  not understand what it meant. He asked a man whose Tower is
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  this unwire men's heads arranged in rows in this way.
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  He was told in this Tower, dwells a maiden as beautiful as
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  the sun and he King's son, may ask for her hand in marriage.
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  She asks him a question. If he cannot answer it, his head
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  is cut off, but if he can, he may demand her in marriage.
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  No one yet has been able to answer her question.
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  The prince thought and thought and said to himself, I will go.
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  I will ask this made in a marriage.
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  I will know if it is. My fate.
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  What is to be? Will be?
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  What can she ask me that? I shall not know.
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  So he rose and went. He came to the sun like maiden
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  and asked her in marriage. She answered it is.
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  Well but first I have a question to ask you if you can answer it
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  then I am yours. If not, I shall cut off your
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  head. So be it said, the prince I ask
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  you this who are Ghulam Barra and Salam Barra inquired.
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  The beautiful Maiden, The King's son said to himself.
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  I know indeed that Ghulam bar and seulong Barra are names of
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  flowers. But I never heard in all my life
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  of human beings, thus named he asked for three days, grace and
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  went away. He went home and told his
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  brother what had happened? And said, if you can't help me.
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  Now, in three days, I shall lose my head, his brother reproached
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  him saying, did I not tell you to stay indoors, this is a
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  wicked town. But then he comforted him saying
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  go now by a Penny's worth of aromatic gum and a candle, I
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  have a grandmother, I shall take you to her and she will help
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  you. But at the moment, when my
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  grandmother looks at us, give her the gum in the candle or she
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  will Achoo. He bought the gum in the candle
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  and they set out, the grandmother was standing in her
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  doorway, the prince immediately gave her the gum in the candle.
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  What is it? What is the matter with you
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  inquired? The grandmother of the princes
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  adopted brother. He came forward and told
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  everything in detail then he added.
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  This is my good brother and certainly you should help him
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  very well said the old woman to the prince sit down on my back,
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  the prince seated himself on her back, the old woman flew up high
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  and then in a twinkling of an eye, she flew down Into the
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  Depths. She took him to a town there and
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  went to the entrance of the bizarre.
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  She pointed out a shopkeeper and said, go and engage yourself as
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  an assistant to the shopkeeper, but in the evening, when he
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  leaves business and goes home, tell him that he must take you
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  with him and must not. Leave you in the shop.
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  Where you go with him, you will learn the story of glulam, Barra
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  and solemn Barra, then when you need me whistle, and I shall be
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  there. The prince did exactly as the
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  old woman had instructed him. He went to the butcher as his
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  assistant at Twilight when the butcher spoke of going home,
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  Prince said to him, do not leave me here.
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  I'm a stranger in this land. I'm afraid take me with you, the
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  butcher objected strongly, but the prince begged him until he
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  agreed. The butcher went home and took
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  the prince with him, they came to a wall opened a door went in
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  and closed it inside. That was another wall.
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  They went through that and closed.
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  They pass through nine walls in this way and then they entered a
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  house. The butcher opened a cupboard
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  door took out a woman's head and then an iron whip.
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  He put down the decaying head and struck it.
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  He struck it and struck it until the head was completely gone.
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  When the prince saw this. He was astonished and inquired.
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  Tell me why do you strike this head?
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  That is so mutilated and whose head is this?
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  The butcher answered, I tell this to no one, this is my
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  secret, but if I do tell anyone, he must then lose his head.
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  Still. I wish to know so the prince the
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  butcher Rose took a sword prepared himself and said to the
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  prince, I had a wife who was so lovely that she outshone the
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  sun. Her name was Ghulam Bara.
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  I kept her under these nine lakhs and I took care of her so
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  that not even the wind of Heaven Blue on her.
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  Whatever she asked me, I gave her at once.
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  I loved her to distraction and trusted her and she told me that
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  she loved no one in the world, but me.
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  At that time, I had an assistant was called solemn Bara and my
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  wife loved him and deceive me. Once I found them together and
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  sees them, I locked one in a Cupboard and the other one in
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  another whenever I came home from business, I went to the
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  cupboards and took them out first one, then the other and
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  beat them as hard as I could. I struck so hard that Sue,
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  Lombardo crumbled away yesterday and only gulam bars, head
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  remained and that has just now crumbled away before your eyes.
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  The story ended, he took his sword and said to the prince.
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  Now I'm going to fulfill my threat.
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  So come here now, I shall cut off your head.
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  The prince pleaded with him. Give me a little time.
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  I will go to the door and pray to my God and then do to me even
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  as you wish. The butcher thought it can do no
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  harm to let him go to the door for a short time for.
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  He certainly cannot open the nine doors.
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  Let him pray to his God and have his wish.
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  The prince went to the gate and whistled immediately, the old
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  woman flew down. Took him on her back and flew
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  off the youth went to the town where the beautiful maiden dwelt
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  and told the sunshine. Like one the story of glumly
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  Barra and swollen Barra The maiden was very much surprised
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  when she had her doll, she agreed to marry him after.
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  They were married, she collected all her worldly, possessions,
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  and set out with the prince for his father's Kingdom.
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  When he came to the brook, his adopted brother appeared, before
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  him and said, in your troubles. I befriended you and now when
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  you are happy, shall this friendship cease, whatever you
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  have obtained, has been by my counsel and therefore, you
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  should share it with me. The prince divided everything in
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  half, but his adopted brother was not pleased, it is all very
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  well to share this with me. While you have the beautiful
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  Maiden, The Prince arose and gave up his own share of the
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  goods. His adopted brother would not
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  take it and spoke. Thus if you hold fast to our
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  friendship, you should share with me.
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  This Maiden the most precious of your possessions, as he said
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  this, he sees the maidens hand bound her to a tree, stretch
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  forth, his sword. And as he was about to strike a
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  green stream flowed from the terror-stricken maidens, mouth
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  again, the youth raised his sword, the same thing happened a
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  third time. He prepared to strike with the
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  same result, then he came on Bounder from the tree.
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  We gave her to the prince and said, although this made him was
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  beautiful yet, she was venomous. And sooner, or later would have
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  killed you now, whatever poison was in her is completely gone.
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  So they're not fear her. In the slightest degree go, and
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  God guide you as for these possessions, they are yours.
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  I do not want them. May God give you his peace from
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  his pocket. He took out a handkerchief and
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  gave it to the prince and said, take this handkerchief with you.
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  And when you reach Wipe your father's eyes with it, and he
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  will see, I'm the fish that was in that Basin and you did Set Me
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  Free know, then that kindness of heart is never lost.
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  So saying the princes adopted brother disappeared, the prince
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  remained astonished before he had time to express his
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  gratitude. The young man had suddenly
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  disappeared at last when he had recovered himself, he took his
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  wife and went to his father. He laid the handkerchief on the
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  Kings eyes and his sight came back to him.
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  When he saw his only son and his beautiful daughter-in-law, his
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  Joy was so great that his eyes filled with tears.
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  His son, sat him down and told him all that had happened since
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  he left him. The end.
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  Wow, I was quite surprised by the middle part of the story
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  where the Butcher and the punched heads that was pretty
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  wild. And then also, when they adopted
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  brother gets the poison out of the maiden, I didn't see that
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  coming. It's like hey share everything.
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  Share with it, share your wife like, whoa.
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  Okay, but it was good. Got the poison out, so I look
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  forward to covering a lot more of these tales and learning more
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  about the wonderful history of Georgia.
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  No, podcaster listener. Shout out for this one, as
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  Roberto, and I have agreed to a pod.
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  Well, I will say go and listen to his podcast because his love
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  of Georgia and its history is really fascinating and covers an
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  under told the history. So go check out the history of
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  Georgia, sucker fellow, and thank you and good night.