One very successful hunter suddenly began to miss very often, and the wounded animals ran away from him, and he was unable to finish them off.
One day he happened to meet a very large deer in the mile. He shot him three times, but never killed him. He had to chase the wounded animal along the bloody trail. But he never found the animal. But he found himself in front of a strange-looking man. It was the Deer Master himself. He spared the hunter only because, fortunately, his youngest son was with him. Otherwise, he would not have returned home.
In parting, the Master of the Deer said to the hunter:
- Don't say anything to your wife.
Only you know
What happened to you.
And don't go hurt a deer,
Because I will be waiting for you.
And then you won't come home again. —
So, they say, the man told him.
But the hunter
Mad with fever
What did the man send to him?
I started telling my wife,
About who he met
On the mile,
And they say he just finished telling his wife
What happened to him
And he died...
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru