In one aul there lived a poor man who had a beautiful daughter. She liked many horsemen, but the father decided to marry his daughter only to a rich man. Soon she was wooed by the son of an aul rich man, who was a fool.
The girl did not agree for a long time, but her parents’ will was adamant.
They celebrated the wedding and took the bride to the groom's house. The girl began to think about how she could get rid of the hated person
I thought and thought and came up with an idea. When the groom went out into the yard in his underwear, she locked the door tightly.
- Open it quickly, it’s me, your husband! - the groom shouted.
“My husband is with me and has been sleeping for a long time, and does not wander under other people’s doors,” the girl shouted. “Get away!”
- And in fact, am I not lost? — thought the fool. “Didn’t you have the wrong door?”
He went to his elder brother and said:
“I went outside and got lost, help me find my house.”
The elder brother threw a fur coat over the groom, took him home and knocked on his door. And the bride screamed loudly:
- Why are they not giving us peace today, go away, otherwise I’ll wake everyone up!
The elder brother was frightened and thought: “Something is unclean here! Isn’t it the Shaitan in the form of a brother mocking me?” The elder brother took his fur coat and rushed to run, whispering prayers.
And the groom climbed into the stable and spent the rest of the night there. And when he entered the house in the morning, the bride screamed:
“Where have you been wandering all night, you scoundrel?” I've been waiting and waiting for you. Listen, are you pregnant by any chance? Your stomach is bloated.
- Where have you seen men get pregnant? - the groom was scared.
- As much as you want! Take my neighbor Murad, for example. He was the first reveler, and now he is expecting a child.
The cunning girl called her friend, who agreed with her in everything.
- Oh, what a shame! - the groom shouted. “What will happen if people find out about this?” Help me.
“Okay,” the treacherous girls told him. “You must leave immediately and give birth away from the village, and then return home.”
And the groom hastily left the village.
He walked for a long time until he reached a large mountain. Here, in one of the caves, he found a pair of human legs shod with charms. The man was probably torn to pieces by wolves. The groom put these legs in Khurjin and by evening reached one village. His father's kunaki warmly received him, fed him and put him to bed in the warmest room.
At night, the owner's cow calved, and the owners placed the calf in the kunatskaya, where the guest slept.
A little later the groom woke up and saw with horror that a small calf was lying nearby.
- Oh, did I really give birth to a calf? - he screamed in horror and rushed out of the house.
The next morning, the owners did not find the guest and became very worried, and then they saw his feet in charms.
- What a miracle! - the owners were frightened. - Has our cow calved with azhdakh? “In fear, they lined the house with firewood and burned the calf, and with it all their goods.
And the groom wandered around the world for a long time. When he returned home, his fiancee was already married to someone else.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru