How devil built barn

Legends, applications and tales of Szczecin"

Episode 10.

"How devil built barn"


Some host from Drzetowo had only one, little barn. Some year he collected so copious harvest, he hadn't their where to deposit. He have to built major barn. He hadn't many money. He went to near Szczecin on credit. He walked from bank to bank, from pawnbroker to pawnbroker, but none want him to give money. He ugly backed to home.

On road he met strange man, that man asked him about reason so dismal look. Host said about own problems, alien offered, in one night, to first crow, to build him longingly barn. For trouble he wanted to get only one, small stuff, really not big, from him home. Host quickly understood, that he is having to do with devil because he saw one feet alien was horse's hoof. But offer was tempting: something small stuff for urgently need barn! "That payment it trifle" - he thought and he agreed.

When man backed to home and he said him adventure wife and mother, he understood, that devil say about small stuff thought about him heart.

In the interim in farmhouse it bustled from aliens, which work not probably quickly. Already about midnight barn was almost ready. It was lacking only piece of roof. Old mother waited only on that. She sneaked to housing's hens and she started poked cock. Brutally cock woke up he waved wings and he crowed. Devil lost. He must to go away with receipt, but he didn't finish work. Man saved heart and spirit.

But him barn always stay not end. Dirty in roof to wasn't may patched. What in day they did with big hard, excatly they thatched, in light lapsed.

The end