Liceul Tehnologic “Octavian Goga”

Jibou, Romania

*The Three Wishes -

Hungarian Folktale

Once upon a time,

there was a man and

his wife. Both of them

were young, they

loved each other, but

because of poverty,

they often argued.

* But one day, luck was on the

poor man’s side…

*As he was coming out of the forest, he saw a carriage drawn by 4 black dogs. In it was a beautiful lady. He thought she must be a fairy. As the fairy’s carriage was stuck in the mud, she asked for the poor man’s help.

* The poor man gladly helped her. The

fairy rewarded him for his good deed

with THREE WISHES.

* The poor man hurried home to tell his wife what happened to

him.

His wife didn’t believe him at first. Then she wished for a pan

full of big sausages. And there it was….

Their first wish has gone…

* The poor man wanted to light his cigarette, but as he was doing that, the sausages fell in the ash of the stove.

*His wife got really mad and in her anger wished that the sausage would grow on the man’s nose. As she finished saying that the sausage was on the man’s nose.

* They tried and tried to get down the sausage from the man’s nose…but they couldn’t. It didn’t move.

* This was their second wish…

*After trying so

many times, they

did not have

anything else to

do…

They had to use their last

wish. The woman

wished that the sausage

fall down from her

husband’s nose, back into

the pan.

* They had a very good dinner from that sausage.

During their meal they reconciled. They worked a lot,

they promised not to argue again because of poverty.

*They lived happily

ever after.

The end.

Due to their hard work and because they didn’t argue any

more, soon they had everything they wanted: animal farm

and a beautiful, nice house.