POW 2013-2015

ESTONIAN FOLK TALE

VAESLAPS JA TALUTÜDRUK –

The play AN ORPHAN AND A FARM GIRL

On a Saturday night, the poor girl went to the sauna. Whilst whisking herself on the bench she heard

a clank and clatter on the threshold of the sauna, as if a bunch of german carriages had stopped

before the door.

The girl swiftly put on a shirt and peeked through a crack in the door. She saw the devil and his

three sons step out of the carriage. She made an enchanted sign on the threshold and ran back onto

the bench.

The devil stepped onto the threshold, but he couldn't come inside because of the girls enchanted

sign.

DEVIL : Come out now, daughter, let's go away!

GIRL : I don't have any clothes on, I can't go!

GIRL Well, I’ll get you clothes from your home. Just tell me what you need.

MOUSE : Alone, alone, sister!

GIRL : I don't have a shirt of silk to put on.

DEVIL (to his sons) : Which one of you is the most diligent?

SON #1 : Me, like wind!

SON #3 : Me, here and there!

DEVIL (to son #3) : You, go!

With the blink of an eye, the son was gone. In a little while the man returned with the silk shirt.

DEVIL : Here you go, poor girl, a shirt of silk! Now lets go.

GIRL : I musn't come, I don't have a golden skirt.

Like wind, the boy was home with the golden skirt in hand.

DEVIL : Here you go, poor girl, a golden skirt. Now lets go!

MOUSE : Alone, alone, sister!

GIRL : I musn't come, i dont have a colorful belt to wrap around my waist!

Yet again, the boy returned with the colorful belt as fast as he could.

DEVIL : Here you go, poor girl, a colorful belt. Now lets go!

GIRL : But I don't have shoes to put on!

The shoes were brought to the poor girl. Yet the girl still wouldn't come out of the sauna, she

listened to the mouses advice and kept asking the devil to bring her attire.

But as the day was drawing to an end, everything the poor girl owned had been brought to her. She

stepped out of the sauna dressed like the daughter of a king. She shined under the light of the moon

like silver and gold.

DEVIL : In the carriage there are silk feathers, in the carriage the pillows are better.

GIRL : I'm not used to silk feathers or sitting on soft pillows. Put hay onto the carriage floor

instead.

The son swept away like wind. Suddenly a rooster sang and the devil, his sons, the carriage and the

horses dissapeared with a blink of an eye. The poor child had been left standing on the threshold,

covered in gold and silver.

The next day, when the farm girl noticed the poor childs riches, she wouldn’t leave the poor child

alone ‘til she found out where she had gotten them.

On Saturday night, after the whisking had finished and the people had left, the farm girl stayed

inside the sauna. It wasn’t long beforte the clank and clatter of the carriage and horses sounded from

outside.

DEVIL : Come out now, daughter, lets go away!

FARM GIRL : But I don’t have clothes to put on!

DEVIL : Well, I’ll get you clothes from your home. Just tell me what you need.

MOUSE : Alone, alone, sister!

FARM GIRL : What are you whining there, slopdoll? Shut up!

And so the farm girl told the devil all the jewlery she wanted.

The clothes and jewlery were brought from the home and the farm girl had to step into the devils

carriage and journey to the hellfamily, where she married the devils son.

Translated by Dorothty Harriet Purre, form 9b, Kose Gümnaasium

2014

Here you can see how the 8th grade students from Kose Gümnasium act:

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