Cine imi poate face si mie un rezumatTHE MOON
IN DAYS gone by there was a land where the nights were always
dark, and the sky spread over it like a black cloth, for there the
moon never rose, and no star shone in the obscurity. At the
creation of the world, the light at night had been sufficient. Four
young fellows once went out of this country on a traveling
expedition, and arrived in another kingdom, where, in the evening
when the sun had disappeared behind the mountains, a shining
globe was placed on an oak tree, which shed a soft light far and
wide. By means of this, everything could very well be seen and
distinguished, even though it was not so brilliant as the sun. The
travelers stopped and asked a countryman who was driving past
with his cart what kind of a light that was. “That is the moon,”
answered he; “our mayor bought it for three thalers, and fastened
it to the oak tree. He has to pour oil into it daily, and to keep it
clean, so that it may always burn clearly. He receives a thaler a
week from us for doing it.” When the countryman had driven
away, one of them said, “We could make some use of this lamp, we
have an oak tree at home, which is just as big as this, and we could
hang it on that. What a pleasure it would be not to have to feel
about at night in the darkness!” “I’ll tell you what we’ll do,” said
the second; “we will fetch a cart and horses and carry away the
moon. The people here may buy themselves another.” “I’m a good
climber,” said the third, “I will bring it down.” The fourth brought
a cart and horses, and the third climbed the tree, bored a hole in
the moon, passed a rope through it, and let it down. When the
shining ball lay in the cart, they covered it over with a cloth, that
no one might observe the theft.
They conveyed it safely into their own country, and placed it on a
high oak. Old and young rejoiced when the new lamp let its light
shine over the whole land, and bed-rooms and sitting-rooms were
filled with it. The dwarfs came forth from their caves in the rocks,
and the tiny elves in their little red coats danced in rings on the
meadows.
The four took care that the moon was provided with oil, cleaned
the wick, and received their weekly thaler; but they became old
men, and when one of them grew ill, and saw that he was about to
die, he appointed that one quarter of the moon, should, as his
property, be laid in the grave with him. When he died, the mayor
climbed up the tree, and cut off a quarter with the hedge-shears,
and this was placed in his coffin. The light of the moon decreased,
but still not visibly.
When the second died, the second quarter was buried with him,
and the light diminished. It grew weaker still after the death of the
third, who likewise took his part of it away with him; and when
the fourth was borne to his grave, the old state of darkness
recommenced, and whenever the people went out at night without
their lanterns they knocked their heads together.
When, however, the pieces of the moon had united themselves
together again in the world below, where darkness had always
prevailed, it came to pass that the dead became restless and awoke
from their sleep. They were astonished when they were able to see
again; the moonlight was quite sufficient for them, for their eyes
had become so weak that they could not have borne the brilliance
of the sun.
They rose up and were merry, and fell into their former ways of
living. Some of them went to the play and to dance, others
hastened to the public-houses, where they asked for wine, got
drunk, brawled, quarreled, and at last took up cudgels, and
belabored each other. The noise became greater and greater, and at
last reached even to heaven.
Saint Peter who guards the gate of heaven thought the lower world
had broken out in revolt and gathered together the heavenly
troops, which are to drive back the Evil One when he and his
associates storm the abode of the blessed. As these, however, did
not come, he got on his horse and rode through the gate of heaven,
down into the world below. There he reduced the dead to
subjection, bade them lie down in their graves again, took the
moon away with him, and hung it up in heaven.
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