Once a young man lived with his mother beside a great forest. The young man was in love with a beautiful girl who lived in the forest. He told the girl in the forest that if she would marry him, he would bring her anything that she asked. Knowing that the young man lived with his mother the girl said, "Take your dagger and cut out your mother's heart. And bring it to me and I will marry you." Well this made the young man very sad. But he wanted to marry the girl so he killed his mother and cut out her heart. Running through the forest with his mother's heart in his hands, he stumbled and fell and dropped the heart. As he was getting up his mother's heart cried out from the ground, "My son did you hurt yourself when you fell?"
From "The Holy Land Concert," which was broadcasted on BBC radio on Boxing Day, 1968.
0 comments:
Post a Comment