The Golden Flute
The Golden Flute The Golden Flute Once upon a time a woman and her daughter lived in the mountains. The daughter liked to dress in red. For this reason, she was called Little Red. One day Little Red and her mother were working in the fields. All of a sudden a gale blew up, and in the sky there appeared an evil dragon. It stretched down its claws, caught Little Red in a tight grip, and flew off with her toward the west. Little Red's mother vaguely heard her daughter's words carried on the wind
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The Golden Flute
The Golden Flute
Once upon a time a woman and her daughter lived in the mountains.The daughter liked to dress in red. For this reason, she was called Little Red.
One day Little Red and her mother were working in the fields.All of a sudden a gale blew up, and in the sky there appeared an evil dragon.It stretched down its claws, caught Little Red in a tight grip, and flew off with her toward the west.
Little Red's mother vaguely heard her daughter's words carried on the wind:
"Oh mother, oh mother, as dear as can be! My brother, my brother will rescue me!"
Wiping away her tears, Little Red's mother gazed into the sky and said,"But I only have a daughter. Who can this brother be?"
Little Red's mother staggered toward home, and when she had gotten halfway there,her hair caught in the branches of a bayberry tree growing by the roadside.While she was untangling her hair, she spotted a red, red berry dangling from a twig.She picked it and swallowed it without thinking.
When she arrived home, the woman gave birth to a boy with a round head and red cheeks.She named the boy Little Bayberry.
Bayberry grew up very quickly, and in a few days he was a young boy of fourteen or fifteen.
His mother wanted to ask Bayberry to rescue his sister,but she couldn't bring herself to give him such a dangerous job.All she could do was weep to herself in secret.
One day a crow landed on the roof of the woman's house and cried:
"Your sister is suffering out there, out there!
She's weeping in the evil dragon's lair!
Bloodstains on her back, She's digging rocks with hands so bare!"
Upon hearing this, Bayberry asked his mother, "Do I have a sister?"
Tears streaming down her cheeks, his mother replied, "Yes, my son, you do.Because she loved to dress in red, she was called Little Red.An evil dragon that has killed so many people came and took her away."
Bayberry picked up a big stick and said,"I'm going to rescue Little Red and kill that evil dragon. Then it can't do any more harm!"
His mother leaned against the doorframe and through misty eyes watched her son march away
Bayberry walked for miles and miles.On a mountain road ahead of him, he saw a large rock blocking the waythat was pointed and rubbed smooth by all the travelers who had had to climb it.One wrong step would mean a nasty fall.
Bayberry said, "This is my first obstacle!If I don't remove it now, it will be the undoing of many more people."He thrust his stick under the rock and heaved with all his might.There was a great "crack!" and the stick broke in two.Then he put both his hands under the rock and tried to move it with all his strength.The rock rolled down into the valley.
