Dog Mouths

Once upon a time in a forested area there lived dog-nosed people and people close together. The former were hunters, the latter farmers. Once a young girl who was came from further away and was lost in the forest. They took him to their home and fed him for a long time with nut kernels and sweet milk. Now and then they stuck a needle in the girl's arm, to see if this was already fat enough. But the blood oozing from the hole licked they greedily, just as a bear is wont to lick up honey. Finally they thought their victim had gained enough weight. They rejoiced very much, ordered their mother to fry the girl and left to the forest. A great fire had already been burning in the roasting oven for three days. But as there was no bread-shovel to hand for him couldn't put the girl in the oven, the old man sent her to the nearest human hut to get a big shovel. The girl who didn't suspect anything bad did as ordered. But the wife, from whom he asked for a shovel, guessed the size story and gave Rauka some good advice.

Now when the mother of the dog-nosed children told the girl to sit on the shovel, she did this so unskilfully that it was quite impossible to put him in the oven push in from the opening. After several futile attempts, I gave up old man and started barking and raining. Then said the girl: "Why do you rattle like that? It is bad for your health. Show me rather how you have to position yourself correctly on the shovel -- and I'll do it just like that you too."

It was clear to the old man; he leaned on the shovel to his full length exclaiming, "But now hold your reserve!" -- and -- in the blink of an eye it was the girl pushed him into the glowing furnace and locked the iron mouthpiece. Then he pulled on her leg with the back of her leather shoe, so that the tip was in the heel, and ran away.

When the dog-nosed people had returned home, they attacked immediately to the oven and pulled out the supposed girl roast and began to eat; but it didn't taste good to them at all, so they started look at the remains and found a jewel that their mother was wearing a gold ring on his finger. Now everything became clear to them -- and cursing and raining, they set off in pursuit of the fugitive. This had run up to a wide stream, over which he could not go. When the cursing of the approaching hounds and a howl was heard by him, he quickly climbed a tall tree which he was completely covered by the press. The people of Koirakuono were at a loss standing on the shore, not knowing what they should do now. Then they suddenly saw the image of the girl they were looking for in the water. The spirit of the wind was separated the leaves from each other so that the girl's face stood out and reflected in the stream. In blind rage, the pursuers now began to lash out water; they blabber and blabber -- until they burst. But now there was a girl perfectly safe from them.