Common sense samples from Romanian fairytales

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Ioan Pop-Reteganul, Crăiasa Zânelor, poveşti ardeleneşti, Bucharest, Minerva Publishing House, 1970.

Ioan Pop-Reteganul is one of Romania's most notable folklorists. He gathered the stories in this book from the Occidental Carpathians for over three decades.

"The Lord of the Heavens is much more merciful than earthly lords" (Line belonging to the Fairy of the Waters, p 8)

About a beautiful girl: "Anyone would not have hungered anymore, and he wouldn't even remember hunger forevermore, just looking at her." (p 18)

"But so is the Romanian: he endures as much as he can; it is better for him to suffer than to lose his temper, for heaven have mercy on the one that makes the Romanian get angry." (p 37)

"man is only half man until he weds" (p 41)

"Fate has nevertheless fated otherwise." (p 66)

About a dead man: "her man, may he be forgiven and stay where he evening-ed" (p 70)

"Man of nothing is the one who dares spoil the ways of the country." (p 78)

"I notice than even a thief going stealing says God help." (p 81)

"Remember my son, said the old man, you'll walk and walk until you'll reach the longing field, and there you shall be struck by longing for mother, sister, brothers, friends and acquaintances; for if you will not play this fiddle, you will be forced to tun back for longing." (p 85)

The hero to the princess thanking him for delivering her from distress: "If I had not rescued you I would have perished myself, not being able to ever forget you." (p 106)

"And then, as you well know, as many countries as many kings, so it was from the old times, every country had its king and every village its priest and things went smoothly; today, of course, cannot be like that any more, for the world became evil and people became poor; one king needs more than one country and one priest more than one village and still they can't be seen content." (p 119)

"And with enemies the fight was to the death, for emperors fight not as sheepherders, to have a lil' fight or two and then sit together; no, they fight like bucks, head to head till one can't move anymore, his army to be more precise, for the emperors just sit and watch and then they make peace and are good friends." (p 120)

"No living man, may he even be a Lord, should set himself against fate." (p 147)

"I'm not a man to believe lies, especially about beautiful girls I want to hear no badmouthing, for even if I hear it I believe it not." (p 148)

"... lies will not get you far, you may reach dinner or lunch with them, but both very rarely." (p 153)

"... for I'm not since snails, I'm since tales." (p 206)

The thinnest horse in the group (the wonder-steed undercover): "Master, set a huge fire, to let gather a big pile of embers so I can soothe my hunger, and then you shall see what kind of a horse you chose." (p 235)

The finish of a story: "And he went and became king in his father in law's place, and he rules with wisdom and with justice; now he is no more, he died altogether with justice, may God rest them both!" (p 237)

"But none of them could come, one said hee and one said nay and the other so forth, you know how man is when he sets about not helping: he lies so much that the sun holds still and the moon hides behind a cloud for shame. He lies so much that you stand and listen and almost believe, nay, you even do believe him until you remember he's human." (p 238).