| A man was driving at night with pots. |
| He rode and rode, his horse got tired and stopped like
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| times against the cemetery.
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| The man unharnessed his horse and put it on the grass. |
| And he himself lay down on one grave,
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| only he can't sleep.
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| He lay, lay, suddenly the grave began to dissolve under him. |
| He sensed this and jumped up
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| on your feet.
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| Now the grave dissolved, and a dead man came out of there, with a coffin lid,
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| in a white shroud.
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| He got out and ran to the church. |
| He put a lid on the door, and he went into the village.
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| The man was a brave man. |
| I took the coffin lid and stood near my cart
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| wait. |
| What will happen.
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| A little later the dead man came. |
| Grab! |
| And there is no cover. |
| Became on the trail
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| get. |
| He got to the man and said:
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| "Give me back my lid!" |
| I'll tear it to shreds!
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| “And what’s the ax for,” the man answers, “I myself will chop you up into small pieces.
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| - Give it back, good man!
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| "Then I'll give it back when you tell me where you were and what you did."
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| - I was in the village, I killed two young guys there.
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| - Ah, I'm tired! |
| Well, tell me now, how can you revive them?
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| The dead man involuntarily said:
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| - Cut off the left half of my shroud and take it with you. |
| How do you get to that house
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| where the guys are tired,
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| pour hot coals into the pot and put a piece of shroud there. |
| Yes, close the door.
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| From that smoke they will immediately come to life.
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| The peasant cut off the left floor from the shroud and gave the coffin lid.
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| The dead man approached the grave, the grave dissolved, and began to sink into it.
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| Suddenly... *crow* ...and he didn't have time to close properly.
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| One end of the lid was left outside. |
| The man saw it all, noticed everything.
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| Harnessed the horse and went to the village.
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| He hears crying, screams in one house. |
| He enters there, two guys are lying ... dead.
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| - Don't cry, I can revive them!
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| - Revive, dear! |
| We will give you half of our goods, - the relatives say.
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| The man did everything right, as the dead man taught him, and the guys came to life. |
| Native
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| rejoiced, and the peasant was immediately seized and tied with ropes.
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| - No, we will introduce you to the authorities, brother. |
| When he was able to revive
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| so you died.
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| - Yes, what are you, Orthodox! |
| Fear God, - the peasant yelled, and told everything,
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| what happened to him at night.
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| The people gathered and threw them into the cemetery, found a grave from which the dead man
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| went out.
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| They dug up and drove an aspen stake right into his heart so that he would not get up again,
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| Yes, I didn’t stain people.
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| And the peasant was notably awarded and released home with honor. |