There lived rich gypsies. These gypsies had an only son. And the time has come for him to get married, but he can’t find a partner he likes. One day he was sleeping and had a dream: an evil spirit came to him and said:
– Do you want to know your fate?
“I want to,” the gypsy answers, “otherwise I can’t find a mate to my liking.”
“Okay,” says the evil spirit, “I’ll help you.” Go here and there, you will see a village, go to the last house, knock. The door will open and your betrothed will come out.
The gypsy woke up and said to his father and mother:
“I’m going to go look for my destiny.”
The gypsy dressed in his best clothes, harnessed the fastest horse, took greyhounds with him and set off. He arrives at the village that the evil spirit told him about, finds the last house, and knocks. A girl comes out onto the porch, so small, so ragged, so homely, that the gypsy’s face has changed. How is it possible, he thinks, that I’m such a rich gypsy, but I have to marry a ragged woman? We need to get rid of her.
And the gypsy planned evil things. He took this girl with him, wrapped her in a sheepskin coat, threw her on the cart and drove off. As he drove further away from the village, he abandoned the girl near the road and set the dogs on her. And he went home himself. Thinks: Dogs killed a girl.
And after the gypsy the lady rode in a carriage. She sees a girl lying wrapped in a sheepskin coat, and the dogs are going crazy over her, they want to kill her. The lady shouted at the dogs, and they ran away. She took the girl to her place and took her home, because this lady was childless.
She cured the gypsy girl, combed her hair, washed her, dressed her properly, and she began to live with the lady instead of her daughter. Time passed, and the little gypsy grew into a handsome man, you couldn’t take your eyes off her. And her voice was such that the lady sent the girl to the church choir. Since then, the fame of this girl has spread throughout the area.
One day a rich gypsy went to church and heard a gypsy woman singing. He wouldn’t have even seen her - he would have loved her for one voice, but as soon as he looked at the beauty, he immediately sent matchmakers. They got married. The gypsy girl tied a scarf, according to gypsy custom, and wrapped it around her head and neck. So her husband asks:
- Tell me, why do you wear a scarf like that? He untied the scarf, looked at his wife’s neck, and there were bite marks.
- What's happened? - he asks her. The gypsy girl told her husband how she lived in poverty, how a rich gypsy came to her, took her away and left her on the way to be torn to pieces by dogs.
“Since then, the scars have not healed,” the gypsy girl finished.
Her husband fell to his knees in front of her and admitted that it was he who was with her that day.
- You know, you won’t get far from your fate! - said the gypsy. – What is written in the family will happen!
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru