The serpent of Manlleu (Turkey)

ONCE UPON A TIME THERE

WAS A LITTLE TOWN NEAR

THE TER RIVER WHO NAME

WAS MANLLEU.

IN THIS TOWN, THERE WAS

A

DEEP AND FEARFUL

JUNGLE

THERE WAS A BIG AND

DREADFUL SERPENT

LIVED IN THIS JUNGLE. IT

HAD GOT LONG HAIR AND

WORE A DIAMOND AS A

CROWN.

IT ATE WHAT EVER IT SEE.

MEN, SHEEPS, LITTLE

CHILDREN….NO ONE

COULD DARE TO COME

AND SEE THIS SERPENT.

ONE DAY A RECKLESS BOY

WHO WAS PERE DARED TO

SEE THIS SERPENT. HE

WALKED IN TO THE

DEEPEST FOREST.

WHEN HE WALKED. HE

HEARED A STRONGE

VOICE. IT WAS THE SOUND

OF SERPENT. HE HID

BEHIND THE TREES AND

WAITED SILENTLY.

SUDDENLY THE SERPENT

WAKE UP. IT WAS THIRSTY.

IT PUT THE DIAMOND ON A

MILDSTONE AND WENT TO

THE RIVER FOR DRINKING.

PERE WAS SHOCKED. HE

TOOK THE DIAMOND AND

RUN AWAY AS FASTLY AS

HE CAN.

WHEN THE SERPENT

RETURNED THE JUNGLE, IT

AWARE ABSENCE OF

DIAMOND. IT WAS TOO

ANGRY.

IT SMELT EVERYWHERE

TO FIND THE THIEF. AT THE

END IT FOUND. PERE’S

SCENT AND FOLLOWED.

THIS SCAND BROUGHT IT

INTO THE TOWN.

PERE WAS AT HOME. IT

WAS THE SAFEST PLACE

IN THE WORLD

ACCORDING TO HIM. NO

ONE COULD FIND HIM

THERE EVEN THE

SERPENT.

HE FOUND ON OLD

MORTAR AND PUT THE

DIAMOND IN IT.

WHEN HE TOUGHT HE

WAS RICH, THE DOOR OF

HOUSE WAS BROKEN. NO

ONE COULD BELIEVE

THEIR EYES BUT THE

DREADFUL SERPENT WAS

AT HOME.

PERE AND HIS FAMILY

STOOD AS A STONE WHEN

THE SERPENT FOUND THE

MORTAR AND SQUEEZED

IT.

THE SERPENT WAS

EXHAUSTED FOR

SQUEEZING THE MORTAR

AND IT DIED.

PERE AND HIS FAMILY WERE SCHOCKED. THEY COULDN’T BELIEVE BEING ALIVE. SO THEY THANKED TO THE GOD AND PUT THE DIAMOND ON THE STATUS OF VIRGIN MARY FOR SAVE THEIR LIFE.