One woman’s husband was seriously ill and did not get out of bed. His wife fussed around him and kept saying:
- Oh, Lord, send me death before him!
Her godfather heard these words and decided to test the woman.
“Kuma,” he says, “do you know what death looks like?” She looks like a plucked rooster.
She doesn’t listen, she keeps asking death to take her away and not touch her sick husband.
The godfather got tired of this, he took the rooster, tore out all its feathers and put it out in the very sun. The rooster was almost roasted and, when his godfather untied him, he began to run as fast as he could and, crowing loudly, flew into the sick man’s room.
The woman saw him and thought: “Here it is, death!”
In fear, she hid behind the door, pointed her finger at the bed and said to the rooster:
- The patient is over there in the bed.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru