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PRASLEA THE MIGHTY AND THE GOLDEN APPLES
Once upon a time, there was a king who had in his
garden a tree which made golden apples; but he never
succeeded in tasting them, because someone used to
come and stole them.
There were a lot of men who ventured to guard the
apple tree, among these the king’s older sons too,
but none of them succeeded in catching the thief.
After a lot of requests, Praslea, the king’s youngest
son, is allowed to guard the apple tree. He
succeeded in wounding the thief and brought to his
father thelong-expected fruits.
The three sons of the king decide to go after the
thieves. They walk together until they arrive to a
precipice and it is only Praslea who decides to
descend there.
As soon as he reaches the other world, the king’s
youngest son discovers that there is a dragon who
keeps prisoner the daughter of a king.
Praslea fights the dragon, defeats him and saves the
girl who asks him to free her sisters too, because they
were also under the spell of the two dragons.
Afterwards, the brave man goes looking for the second
girl.
After a terrible fight, he succeeds in defeating the
second dragon too.
Then, he reaches the third castle.
The fight with the third dragon is even terrible than
the other two, but the brave man is helped by a raven
and by the king’s youngest daughter.
After he rests for a while, the king’s son turns the
castles into three apples and he entrusts the older
sisters to his brothers, the youngest one being his
favourite.
His brothers save the girls, but they let go the rope
the moment when they must save him too, wishing his
death.
The brave man kills a dragon who wanted to eat the
babies of a griffon.
As a reward for having saved its babies, the griffon
takes the brave man to our world.
Praslea takes himself a job at a silversmith in his
father’s town, because he found out that the king’s
youngest daughter had asked to the one with whom
she was going to marry, first a fork and then a golden
hen. Therefore, Praslea decides to show the precious
objects which he kept in the golden apple and which
remained at him.
The king’s daughter realizes that only the brave man
who saved her from the dragon could have been have
to make such objects and she asked that the
craftsman should come to the castle.
When he comes to the castle, the king’s youngest son
is recognized by the girl and the king asks him to tell
him what happened. When the king finds out the way
his older sons treated their younger brother, he asks
him to punish them. But, the punish comes from God,
because the arrows shot in the air kills the guilty ones.
The youngest son marries the king’s daughter
and after his father death he becomes the king
of the empire.