The Virgins Bathing In The Moonlight

There once lived a young man who had nowhere to rest but himself struggled to explore all the hidden things, the other people remained unknown. When he learned bird language and other secret ones Having learned wisdom enough, he happened to hear that under the covers Many things should happen during the night that are invisible to the eyes of mortals look is forbidden. Now he longed for something like that to fathom the secrets of the night and didn't like each other any more content as if this hidden information had become known to him. Probably For a while he went from one magician to another, and lay with them, to sharpen his eyes for his purpose, but no one could help. Then, by a lucky coincidence, he finally came up with one Mana magicians from Finland who have hidden information about these knew how to give information about things. When he made his wish known to him the magician said warningly: “Little son! don't chase all sorts of empty things Wisdom, which cannot bring you happiness, but can bring you unhappiness. Some things are hidden from men's eyes because they belong to the peace of... Heart would have to come to an end if it were recognized. Who all secret When he learns to look at things, he no longer finds joy in what he sees brings the everyday world into view. Remember this before you regret later. --Nevertheless I want, if you do not heed my warning and yours If you wish misfortune, teach you how to live under the cover of the You can become aware of things happening at night. But you have to do more than that Have manly courage, otherwise you will never be able to gain secret wisdom." The magician from Finland then gave him a location and gave him a name the night, fortunately approaching, where the snake king always comes together with his court after seven years for a big event to hold a feast. »The Snake King has a gold bowl with him heavenly goat's milk in front of him; If only you can manage it, a piece of bread to dip in this milk and put the dipped bite in your mouth before you go on the run again, you can do anything Secret people see what happens under the cover of the night without them people know about it. As a happy coincidence you can see that the Serpent King's feast falls in this year, otherwise you would have had to wait seven years for it to return. Be but boldly, courageously and quickly, otherwise things will go wrong." -- Der The young man thanked him for this instruction and left with the firm intention of to comply with it, and he would also have to lose his life in the process. As Now that the designated night had come, he went up in the evening large moor where the snake king and his subjects meet should to celebrate the festival. Although the young man followed his eyes He looked around sharply on all sides, but he saw it in the moonlight nothing more than a number of mounds of grass lying motionless. The time was already getting long for him, midnight couldn't be far away, when suddenly a bright firelight appeared in the middle of the moor, for example as if a star of heaven shimmered on one of the grassy hills. In At the same moment that the firelight shone, everyone caught Grass hills to crawl and swarm, and from each of them Hundreds of snakes came down and all crawled on the Firelight closed -- and now there was only flat moor. The The supposed hills were nothing more than piles of living things There were snakes waiting for their king here. Than now all the snakes gathered in the place where the firelight shone, had gathered and huddled together in a heap this has become as high and wide as a small haystack, and up The bright firelight remained at the top. The confusion and The buzz in the heap of snakes was so great that the youth... Fear did not dare to take a step closer, but rather from far away stopped and looked at the miracle. But gradually he composed himself a heart, and walked delicately, step by step, on his toes forward. What he saw there was more gruesome than greyish, and went beyond everyone Terms. Thousands of snakes, big and small, of all colors, were stored here like in a bunch of grapes around a large snake, whose body seemed to have the thickness of a strong beam, and the On his head he wore a magnificent golden crown, from which he wore radiated splendor. Hundreds and thousands of snake heads coming out sticking out of the pile, flickering and hissing like angry geese and made a noise so loud it was deafening. The young man For a long time I didn't have the heart to go to the pile of snakes where every moment he was threatened with death; but when he suddenly did that Little gold bowl he had heard about, in front of the snake king He wasn't allowed to see it and think about the profit associated with it procrastinate longer. Even though his hair stood on end and the blood was in his blood While his heart froze, his desire spurred him on and drove him forward. -- Oh what a tangle and tangle there is now Pile of snakes rose! All the thousand heads opened their mouths wide and tried to stab the man, but luckily they were able to Don't be so quick to unwind your body from the ball. The youth had quickly dipped a bite of bread into the gold bowl, put it in his mouth and then turned heel as if it were fire chased after him. But the pursuer was worse than fire, That's why he didn't take time to look behind him, even though he felt as if thousands of enemies were at his heels and he was always that I thought I heard the sound of it. Finally he caught his breath and... his strength weakened; he fell unconscious on the grass and stayed there lie rigid as a dead man. He had probably fallen asleep, but Horrible dream images made the danger seem even greater. So he dreamed as if the snake king was with the sparkling gold crown fell on him and wanted to devour him. Jumped with a loud scream he went up and to the side to escape the enemy and saw that the beam the rising sun had woken him up. He opened his eyes wide and saw but nowhere the nocturnal enemies, and the moor where he is so large Danger must have been at least a mile away. Certainly the goat's milk from heaven had steeled his strength so that he could do so was able to run far. Then when he checked his limbs he found her intact; and now his joy was great that he had intact skin had gotten away with it.

After midday he rested for several hours from the terror and fatigue of the last night, then he decided to go there that night To go to the forest to test the benefits of heavenly goat's milk, whether to him Really hidden things would now become revealed. He saw in the forest soon, what no mortal eye had yet seen and certainly will not see again. Golden, Red shimmering bath benches, silver tassels and silver buckets were not missing, but nowhere were any living beings visible that had want to bathe. The full moon shone and gave so much light that the man Could see everything clearly. After some time he heard a noise in the Bowers, as if a wind had risen, then came from all sides naked virgins, much more beautiful and stately to look at than she grow up somewhere in our villages. They were all of the wood elf and the lawn mother daughters and came to bathe. The one behind that The youth peeking through the bushes would have a hundred eyes this night wanted, because his two couldn't see all the beauty. Finally, when it was already approaching morning, the person watching lost Bathing frames and bathing virgins out of sight as if they were in Fog blurred. He stayed until the sun rose; then first he went home again. The day probably stretched longer than his longings a year until evening and night fell again, where he hoped the im to see maidens bathing in moonlight again; but finally this time of longing had passed. But found in the forest He has nothing left, neither a bathing structure nor virgins. Yet he wasn't tired of going night after night, but every walk was in vain. Now The grief gnawed at him, there was nothing left in the world that could help him to be able to bring joy; he took neither food nor drink, but consumed with longing. It is certainly fortunate for man if he never sees such secrets.