The Three Wishes -

Hungarian

Folktale

Liceul Tehnologic

“Octavian Goga” Jibou,

Romania

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 6 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.

This was their second

wish…

They tried and tried

to get down the

sausage from the

man’s nose…but

they couldn’t. It

didn’t move.

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.

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.

They lived happily ever after.

The end.