LITHUANIAN HORROR TALES
LITTLE LUKE
“Come to me, little Luke, your mother is calling. I will give you a clean white shirt and a beautiful ribbon” said the hag. “You are not my mother, my mother is without her head” Luke replied. The hag went to a blacksmith and asked him to chop off her head. She died soon.
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SIGUTE
Seven brothers wanted to take revenge on their evil stepmother for all the pain she caused for their little sister. They strapped the evil stepmother to a horse. While a horse was galloping through the forest, the stepmother’s body parts were torn off and scattered. Nowadays it’s said that shiny reflections on snow on a sunny day are actually small pieces of the stepmother’s brain.
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HELEN
“Helen, Helen, let’s go swimming” said the Hag while standing near the river of blood. The little rabbit tried to warn Helen not to go, but the Hag dislocated his limbs and his head so he died.
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IRON WOLF
Once upon a time there was a brother, a sister and the iron wolf. The iron wolf fell in love with the girl. One time he asked her to kill her brother, she attempted to do so but she failed. Her brother got angry so he tied his sister to a tree, and brought three cariages of potato stalks and a tub. Then he told her “When you have eaten all of all those stalks and filled the tub with tears, then I’ll let you go�
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GOAT LIAR
Once upon a time there was a farmer. He had a nanny-goat and he loved her very much. One time farmer’s wife and three daughters shepherded the nanny-goat. The goat was a mean creature so at the end of the day she lied to the farmer, saying that his daughters and his wife almost didn’t feed her at all. The farmer was so angry at his family for not taking care of the nanny-goat that he hanged them all.
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JOHNNY AND THE WITCH
The witch told her daughter “I am going to invite some guests. You broil Johnny in time for dinner.” Johnny overhead their talk so he pushed witch’s daughter in a wood-fired oven, baked her, chopped her up, put the pieces in a pot, laid her head on a pillow and covered half of it with a bed sheet, so the others would think that the girl was having a rest. Later on, the witch came home with her guests. “Let’s have dinner, but where’s my daughter? Oh, she’s sleeping, we should let her rest”
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AND THEY LIVED HAPPILY EVER AFTER ...
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