There was a farmer and his daughter
living on the coutry side. The daughter was very lovely and beautiful. One day
3 young men came and asked her father for her hand in marriage. She could not
decide which of the men to pick so they waited. But one day the girl grew sick
and died, they burned her body.
One
of the men built a hut there and slept on a bed of her ashes, another took her
bones and dipped them in a sacred river and the other became a monk and
wandered the countryside.
The
monk found his way to the village of thunderbolt and found shelter in a house.
There as he was eating a child began to cry and would not stop, so the mother
threw him into the fire and he turned to ash.
The
monk was outraged but soon learned the man of the house had special powers, to
bring people back from the dead. He read a spell, sprinkled water on the ashes
and they boy came back.
The
monk stole the book and ran back to the cemetery to save his beloved. There he met
the other men who had also wanted the girl. They said the spell, sprinkled the
water and the girl came back to life, more beautiful than ever. The three men
argued of which should possess her. They went to the king to decide
The
king said the man who found the magic did what a father would do, not a
husband, and they man that dipped the bones did what a brother would do not a
husband but the man who stayed by the ashes and lived a hard life in the
cemetery did what a lover would do so he deserved her.
Great-minded people do not waver until they have kept
their promises, even at the cost of life.
http://mythfolklore.blogspot.com/2014/06/goblins-three-lovers.html
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