Story of the Foreign Fairy Chapter 105

One afternoon, Jesus Christ fell asleep while lying in the cradle. His mother came to him, looked at him with joy, and said, "My son, are you asleep? Sleep well, I will go there later." I will pick you a handful of strawberries, I know you will like them when you wake up." Outside in the forest, the Virgin Mary found a place covered with exciting strawberries. When she bent down to pick it, a viper suddenly jumped out from the grass, which frightened her. 

She dropped the strawberries and ran away. The viper was chasing after her, and the Virgin Mary quickly hid under a clump of hazel trees and stood there quietly. Finally, the viper left. Later, she picked straw mold again. Before going home, she said: "The hazel tree protected me this time and will protect others in the future." Therefore, from a long time ago, a green hazel branch became The best protection against vipers, other snakes and anything that crawls on the ground.

Once upon a time, there was an old mother in a big city. She was sitting alone in her room late at night. She thought about how she had lost first her husband, then her two sons, then all her relatives, and finally her last friend. Now she was left alone, and she felt very sad. However, what saddened her the most was the death of her two sons. In her agony, she confided to God, and just sitting there quietly meditating, she suddenly heard the bells for morning prayers. 

She felt very strange that she had spent the whole night in sorrow. So she lit the lamp and went to church. When she arrived, the church was already bright, but not with ordinary candles, but filled with the light of dawn. It was packed with people and all the seats were taken. The old mother walked to her usual seat, but it was also occupied, and the entire stool was full. She looked at these people and saw that they were all her dead relatives. 

They were all sitting there in old-fashioned old clothes, all of them looking pale. They neither spoke nor sang, but there was a soft humming and murmuring in the church. At this time, one of her dead aunts stood up, walked forward, and said to the poor old mother: "Look towards the altar, and you will see your sons." The old mother looked towards the altar, and sure enough she saw them. Of her two sons, one was hung on the gallows and the other was tied to a wheel. I just heard the aunt say: "Look, if they are still alive, God will not call them back as innocent children, then their fate will be like this." The old man returned tremblingly At home, I knelt on the floor and thanked God for treating me better than I could ever understand. Two days later she lay dead in her bed.