The man went fishing, but the woman stayed in the house, looked after the children, and cooked food. But for some reason the fire burned poorly in the hearth. The woman put dry firewood in it - still no heat. The woman got angry, poked him with a knife, stirred the coals.
Suddenly a man came out of the fireplace and said:
- Why are you poking with a knife? If you light a fire, then I sit there.
The man disappeared. And the hearth almost went out. The smoke just flows.
My husband has returned. Asked:
- Why doesn’t the fire burn?
Well, the woman told what happened.
“Ay-ay-ay,” said the man. Left. Killed a white fawn. Afterwards he gave his blood and a piece of his heart to the fire. And the hearth flared up again. It glowed hotly.
“Don’t ever poke him with a knife again,” the man told his wife. - You also need to treat the fire. After all, when one of the people is sick, they give him deer meat.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru